Swallowing fistfulls of sunlight in tablet form, I scurry off to soak in rays of happy light from my fake daylight bulb in the upstairs kitchen. Just thirty minutes prevents all gloom!
This is what I believe, so do not take it from me with your tales of cold logic or calculating science.
But I must have an everyday of positive thinking! Come hell or high water, damn and blast this planet. Yes it will be this creative, positive, bright and breezy, shining day, and I will fashion it from my meagre resources. Or die in the attempt.
So I try my daily walk (in the rain), cut short (the rain) to the local Tesco. (Even though I know that Tesco are false friends who will not miss me when I die.)
I decided to photograph the street debris en route. Photo number one is of three pieces of meat. Some things are beyond explanation. I wondered, on the way home, too late, whether someone had laced them with cat-killing poison.
Take my feet as an elegiac couplet in a correspondence with the weather.
But I then wondered if it could be poetry that lifted my soul? So here is my poem, post-Tesco visit, called Shopping List.
Baking Pots
Reduced Price
Haddock
Cucumber Whole
Crusty White
Bananas, Loose.
My last resort is close. Dangle fake diamonds from my ears and drink rum.
But then! I save the day! I manage to fix my eyeball onto my snake box.
(It's a work in progress.)
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