Futurisms
Futurisms If she can do it, I can do it if I buy it, try it, I’ll be it. Like the model on the advert: young and lithe. No anxiety. I might be the one in two, the one in four, or the one in ten, or I might live on horrendously, to a […]
Red Wizard Cafe
Red Wizard Café Red is showing a customer how to use Ebay. They sit next to the guppy tank poking index fingers at Red’s iPad. Two tourists step across the threshold. They see a campanologists’ boot camp flyer and back out. Nothing stops the man with a white carrier bag. He strides over to […]
Future tense
Future tense Strictly one-paced, these days. Comfortable with the present Waltz, supporting each other, legs barely moving, shuffling one…two…two-and-a-half…three. But what if the music changes? Tango, Rumba, Cha-Cha, Paso Doble? Could we summon up the necessary passion? Probably could manage an American Smooth, possibly a (rather slow) Quick Step, but a Jive would leave us […]
Day 12
Knock-on: You can predict everything but the future. (Events, dear boy, events!) Who knows what may happen in the next moment? Here’s a WW1 poem by Ivor Gurney in which three alternative fates are considered: www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/248274 What are your voices telling you?