Some Sort of Baby Food

 

It’s just where to start, just where to begin,

The boy with a bomb in the Ostermilk tin,

With a chemists collusion the passing of cash,

Salt-peter, sulphur and ground charcoal ash.

 

The boy was quite young being just eight or nine,

The making of gunpowder well in his time,

A bomb or a banger ‘just questions of scale’,

And ...

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Until I met and later married Jacqueline I had never considered monogamy as an option nor had I shown any inclination toward anything but predatory behaviour in respect of the women in my circle.

However: and that is a very big word, I suppose if you finally fall in love, then you must love to the exclusion of others.

But like the memory the following are symptamatic of experience

O...

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  With the Popes visit the over-egging of spiritual virtue even effected me ' a dedicated atheist'.  However if you have ever read JHN his poems and his letters you could not fail to be moved -------- ... -------- A Man of Letters

They beatified Newman, some reason to think,

A man who’s complexity beats on the mind,

This priest and philosopher poised at the brink,

Of...

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