lily licks her doc
and says laura has  moved
to candleford-driven there
by her father in horse and cart
(everyone waves her off..)
she has gone to take up employment
with miss lane who runs a post-office
/ farriers..

(my father ran a post office but
unfortunately not a blacksmiths)

the telegraph is sent from post office
to post office
and delivered by minnie next door or
one of the smiths..
they have a meal and bed provided
the telegraph takes precedence..

the customers bring her flowers and she
covertly reads don juan
she likes her life
and they like her..

i woke early and remembered
the days when i drank
waking early when the alcohol
had worn off

and it occurred to me
it has been thirty years
(this year)
a recovering alcoholic

febuary 12 th 1994..
(some kept a bottle by the bed)
i tried to taste wine again
in my mind

and i recalled how i could
not envisage a future of
any kind..
but here i am..

they had no words for
today and tomorrow
they had no clothes
and no house or land..

they had no livestock
no pottery, yet they piled
huge piles of sea-shells
up to thirty feet high

often aways from the coast
covering huge areas
and no-one knows
why..

we look out the window
and then we balance
everything that´s been
and all that is to come

a tiny shoot and the
majestic universe so..
all that is outside and
all that´s in..

micro and macro
o
here we are
little stars..

a bird flies by
the mail man smiles
a moment so sublime
and yet ordinaire..

i have nothing to say
on this monday morning
i may pray..
(dreamed have gone)

how do new age pagans
pray?
i don´t know-
we look out the window..

for  it is  written..
(however, i like that little
round feller that cleans
the floor..  
otherwise, i
don´t know why we bother..)

are we not smitten
by our acumen
our ingenuity-
technology is our
lead in the barrel..
we will be happy when
there is no difference-other..

i

robots,what do you think
about robots-
they creep me out
even the dog..

man ought not to play god
and indeed god should not
play man..
but creation..

ii

is beyond us all
music or football
what else..
fool or genius

but robots
i think not..
let us be natural
what say,lily..?