Mouse's Blog – January 2010 Archive (2)

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

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