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Of smiles and stairs.

Oh, it's so restful being even quieter for a change.


My daughter got married on Saturday, how she smiled, and my father came to stay.
He slept in my bed on new pillows under a new duvet and noticed the old curtains pinned in place between the view and his rare morning tea.
Usually he is attached to a rope on the stairs, so that if he falls he won't go all the way. There is no rope on my stairs. Ready to leave in the morning he descends with a rucksack…
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Added by Mouse on March 22, 2010 at 7:26pm — 1 Comment

I used to know a man who began with a kitten







I used to know a man who worked for a drug company, in a fairly senior position. Within the ambit of Alcoholics Anonymous he told me and another woman how he first started to kill.



It began with a kitten that arrived in the family when he was a little boy in Ireland. He didn't like the way all the people's attention had gone from him and was fastening on the kitten. So he waited till everyone was out and put it in the range, where it was soon… Continue

Added by Mouse on January 27, 2010 at 8:53pm — 1 Comment

Snowballs

Mustn't say this and mustn't say that,

thinking of doing a disappearing act

like the girl who fell through the floor.



There is no-one here on the road.

In the houses the lonely dogs bark.

For a moment outside there were silent men

shovelling snow.

I went out my gate and smiled,

there was barely a note of recognition

in my neighbours of ten years, more, twenty some of them,

twenty years side by side and not one hello or anything but a blank… Continue

Added by Mouse on January 10, 2010 at 8:01pm — 2 Comments

Have they all given way

Perhaps I am drifting here or perhaps hitting the nail on the head -

it does so cause an obtuse twisting in my gut when I see Mandelson having such a good time.



And I think "you slimy little toad" and know he doesn't care at all. So many psychopaths, so many weasels weaseling away. When I think of the pride I felt for the people I grew out of and see what has been done. The meaning stripped away even from the dawn fresh dawn with depleted uranium poison increasing day by… Continue

Added by Mouse on November 13, 2009 at 9:31pm — 1 Comment

Speaking our minds

Curt, you said this:

As for our speaking our minds....



we could (!) let it be. Aint no one listening any old how. Let us....consider ourselves .....



silent observers. Not any easy job. On the other hand, we save ourselves a load of problems trying to convince the unconvinceable. Short & sweet little hints should suffice. A lot like salting our puddings. I trust that if we can find that balance in the amount of info / warning we emit, we can make a dent. A big…
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Added by Mouse on August 5, 2008 at 6:31am — 1 Comment

Adam Curtis films

Follow this link to some very fine documentaries.

Added by Mouse on June 21, 2008 at 7:30pm — 2 Comments

A Course in Anti-Capitalism

Look what I've found:

A course in anti-capitalism.

Anti-Capitalism: ideas, objectives and methods of the new social movements. Department of Politics and

Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University.



http://www.studiesinanti-capitalism.net/StudiesInAnti-Capitalism/Studies_in_Anti-Capitalism.html



The focus of this site is upon materials and texts concerning the development of modern socialism and contemporary movements engaged in the struggle against… Continue

Added by Mouse on February 23, 2008 at 5:39am — No Comments

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