Summertime? [ August 12, 2002 ]

It's been raining For much too long. Makes me think perhaps the summer is already over, and suddenly even the shops have started selling autumn wear. Makes me think perhaps I don't deserve a break, or the time for break will never come.

Marooned Siúil, siúil, siúil a rúin
siúil go sochair agus siúil go ciúin
Siúil go doras agus ealaigh liom
is go dté tú mo mhuirnín slán.

Pinkie, pinkie With the delivery of mineral water to the office, he screams, "It is all pink", and when I reply I have put some bottles of blue topped sparkling mineral water in the fridge just for him, he smiles and looks at me, "all right, all right, but even you are wearing pink today".

Not quite the right, right? Are you denying the right to emotional expression because of social expectations?

What are you reading? He asks, and I reply, "The English Patient". "Is it as good as the scenes in the film?" "Much better, it has a life of its own, it breathes, with its beautiful characters, for all their damages".

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