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dad navigates the kitchen (satnav needed)

reminds me of the looseness

of family strings

nipping in my throat

cold, blowing through me

i feel its arrival

that's the thing you see, i hate saturday nights

backends of sundays and a drink or two

but the weekend is what i hate

though week days seem to have fun

dragging me down too,

oh well, -- not enough water in the saucepan,

that's the wrong chopping board! --

nine weeks left

of school,

(it creeps up before you know it)

i don't know whether to be scared

or excited. 'that's going to burn,

this is my kitchen.'

'it's nobody's kitchen, mummy's perhaps.'

'it feels like my kitchen. i can smell it burning.'

the darkness is drowning me today,

left room for contemplation

of it -- but no i mustn't.

i brew tea, late afternoon

and drown in thought.

(1st March 2014) 

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