Sometimes I think the only point of us being together was for me to give you a word and a little game that you’ll play with your kids.
And that will be the only thing I contribute to the world.
The School Clock
While the boy with sticking-out ears, we all call “wing nuts”, winds the Silky Oak “Herga & Co of Brisbane” school clock, he places one of his wing nuts against the clock and straightens it so it goes “tick – tick” and not “tick – tock”. If it went tick – tock it would go slower and slower until it eventually stopped.
Birthday
Your birthday passed on by and I pretended not to really think about it.
But I could think of nothing else.
Get better
All my friends say it will get better.
And I say it’s a soufflé – this is as good as it gets.
Getting Up
Downed, again, amidst all the rush and tumble, the trash and the defeat. Everything I ever wanted was lost, and then I saw you again, and started again, because that is what you do to me.
Damsel in Distress?
The knight kept bravely challenging the dragon and riding around in front of his cave, until he was unexpectedly knocked unconscious.
“Chauvinist,” the princess said, putting down her mace, “Like I needed rescuing!”
Another secret
Hey, want to know another secret?
It’s really hard to make new friends without drinking.
Actions may speak louder than words, but words will always influence actions.
Words can make you cry, laugh or even sing with joy, which is why we must never forget them.
Lie
I love it when we lie babe!
I wuv you too!
Inspiration
Walking into the kitchen today I had a flash of blinding inspiration.
I’m not sure the inspiration – we’re all fucked – was worth my vision.
The olds
I refused the news.
Give me the olds, I said.
Mafia
I woke up this morning with the head of a jelly-baby in my bed.
When the ant mafia want something, give it to them.
Weird
It was only later we realised how weird it was.
We had all called him tumour-head years before he actually got head cancer.
Withstand
I used to wonder why you didn’t tell me what happened to you when you were young.
Then I realised it was because you could not withstand my pity.
Peanut butter
The football team called her peanut butter.
Kind of an odd name for such a friendly girl don’t you think?
Teenager
I am a person going through the adolescence stage of life.
In an adults eyes I am a teenager, a sincere insult thanks to the media.
Ice age
Ice-ages are nothing to be afraid of because we’ve all experienced them.
Facing away from each other in bed, a million miles between you and someone who once said they loved you.
The Globs
They’re coming in on big waves in high tide, translucent, bubble-shaped, seemingly inert,
clinging to ice plant, debris, litter, on the backs of other sea life, scurrying in the sand, burying themselves deep, nourished on sand life, hydrated on salt water absorbed through porous membranes.
Poisonous to touch, impossible to destroy, emerging as the new life, the new species from mother water, arriving simultaneously on seven continents.
Artistic
They said ‘artistic feminist expressions’.
I said ‘artistic feminist impressions’.
Confession
Ok, I confess!
I filled your room with balloons.