by revd | May 1, 2022 | Humankind
Elaenor Rigby picks up the rice in the church Where a wedding has been, Lives in a dream; Waits at the window, Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. Who is it for? John Lennon (1940-80) and Paul McCartney (1942- )....
by revd | May 1, 2022 | Humankind
Smugness is the first reward befalls impatient certainty – your world and you are in accord of mutual unreality at rest; the last (reward) is being bored. R.P. Blackmur (1904-65). ...
by revd | May 1, 2022 | Humankind
And after this quick bash in the dark You will rise and go, Thinking of how empty you have grown, And whether all the evening’s care in front of mirrors, And the younger boys disowned, Led simply to this. Confined to what you are expected to be, By what you are, Out...
by revd | May 1, 2022 | Humankind
Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) – Between the end of the “Chatterley” ban And the Beatles’ first LP. Up to then there’d only been A sort of bargaining, A wrangle for the ring, A shame that...
by revd | May 1, 2022 | Humankind
You said you’d come and share all my sorrows You said you’d be there for all my tomorrows I came so close from sending you away But just like you promised You came here to stay I just had to pray And Jesus said, “Come to the water Stand by my side...
