‘Earlier That Night’ – adapted from a photo by Christian Lagereek
Why me? I couldn’t work out what was happening at first. The sky looked weird. There’s not too much light pollution on the coast yet this night the sky had no flickering stars nor the black blanket the stars take a rest on. It wasn’t sea mist, clouds or fog either. It was big and getting bigger all the time. It didn’t take long before it filled the sky with somethingness. Only then did I work it out. The moon had decided to crash into the earth and there was nothing I could do about it.
All around me, people not looking up. Happy smiling people without a clue what was about to happen. I tried to tell them but although my mouth mimed the words the words weren’t coming out. Fear and anger. Anger and fear.
Soon I could see not just the outlines of the moon’s craters like you would with a telescope. This time I could see them clearly, like people on holiday flying over the Grand Canyon, except that I was looking up while they’d be looking down. I figured I had about five minutes to live. The bloke on his mountain bike who passed by didn’t have a clue, nor the group of girls sat on the bench eating their takeaway something. It was probably for the best they weren’t looking up. That way they’d die without having to get stressed about it.
Then I remembered that the lady from Vladivostok who always speaks of interesting things was arriving later to cut my hair. That’s when I woke up.
The sky only knows
How to rain and how to hide us from the sun
The ticking clock
Stuck in reverse
They lead us all backwards to when time had just begun
The chatter of the mindless now has made this mess
Made this mess
In this place
Threats turn to war
Bombs and poor excuses feed the starving hawk
The ticking clock
Stuck in reverse
Can we leave these leaders fighting on their own?
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Can we leave these leaders fighting on their own?
They have dragged the whole planet into a mindless conflict.
Brilliant post , George ~~~Yasmin~~~
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Thanks, Yasmin. We need a few honest leaders in the right places. A bit of compassion for those they lead would be a good starting point. Thanks again ~ George
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Tell Mike and Shirley that I was visiting a relative in a South London hospital yesterday and asked a West Indian nurse if she lived far. “Not too far” she replied. “Tornton Heet”
They will understand
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I’ll pass it on. My mother and her accents. She must get through about ten different ones every day. I know Tornton Heet. It’s her starter for 10. I once made a zombie carton and she did the voice overs. One of my characters was an Indian bloke but her Indian accent came out Welsh so I had to change his name and make him Indian Welsh. It was that or do the whole thing over again. I got an award but God knows how ~ George
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Indian Welsh? Wot? Like Daffyd Patel?
I spoke to your mum on the phone and she sounded quite refined. She put me in mind of a much younger Dame Barbara Cartland. Mike, on the other hand, sounded like a complete ruffian and a coniving mountebank of a very high order. Nicely-dressed mind.
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I forgot what I called the bloke. I was 16 when I made the vid but Daffyd Patel would have been a better name. The zombies got him halfway through anyhow. Proper posh is her fall back accent. Devon the day to day one. She doesn’t know she’s doing it most times. I had breakfast with them earlier. She was classic Glasgow then but only because a Scottish guy from the port customs was listening in ~ George
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She’s quite a character. It must be like living with the cast of a travelling band of vaudeville impressionists.
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The poem you wrote is very poetic and very good
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Thanks. It is a lyric more than a poem – the link to the song with that lyric is immediately below the words. Thanks again ~ George
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ah George, the world is indeed a sad place where the leaders are concerned.
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I enjoyed the 3 posts I read here tonight, and all 3 songs I listened to. Thank you, George!
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I’m glad you liked them, Resa. If you have Spotify and want to stream my music then there’s a link at the end of most of my blogs that’ll take you there. That’s where my 5 albums and backing tracks all live under the name Zoolon Audio. Thanks again ~ George
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So clever.
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Thanks for that ~ George
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Now that I encounter you from another blog by chance, appreciate your time to read mine.
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? For what it’s worth I think you’ll find I do read yours. No worries ~ George
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It is my fucked up computer or maybe me….. the point is that quite a lot of times I can´t read the people I love to read, the good thing now is that they put in WordPress any time you go to the “reader” and only just go to the “like” it inmediatelly tells you all the people that like that post, so I might even given tribute to WordPress.
To the point- after smoking a joint….. I trully am privilage of reading and hearing you.
I can say now that I´m Friends with a magical artist. Only when I get with the ladies now and then, I´m getting old.
Stay Frosty gent.
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Thanks. WP does have its issues. I have a few people I follow who’s work never shows up on my Reader. My dad (Mike Steeden) reckons that on his WP blog there are well over a thousand people he follows who never appear on his blog – including me! I know he’s getting fed up right now. It’s a bit of a dog when people think he – mainly – and I are ignoring them ~ George
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I actually don`t ignore, I really try to read as most of all you, and that also benefits me from reading and learnig
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Forgot.
Seems we read the same blogs, which are completely different from my crazy one, so we got that taste in common. It is good reading (apart from mine) and other types.
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There’s a lot of good genres out there ~ George
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That is exactly why I call WordPress my free univertiy apart from paying the internet, but I love to explore all kinds of genres, I take away something for me to explore and then write
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Poem and music,both are lovely🌷
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Thanks for reading and listening ~ George
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Most welcome,dear!!
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Really like this song and the lyrics. The rhythm stands out to me on this one, tonight especially…
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Thanks for the read and the listen, Ka ~ George
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