Making room
Increasingly (I write, listening this midnight
to the softly-soft hush of your fast-asleepness
from the next room) we two are becoming three.
Talking amongst ourselves, one of us will get up
and do something unexpected - crack a joke,
belch, do a funny dance - and increasingly
the culprit isn’t you or me. Or something we say -
a stutter or a fuss or a curse - will come
not from you or me. I link two points with a line
and then put a third point elsewhere, and pull
the line into a fat parabola, and listen to you snore,
you and our friend there, two and three -
what used to be you and me - we two
like two strangers on the back seat of a bus,
shuffling over, politely making room.
Somewhat ineptly, the only word I can think of in my current post-lunch writer’s block is ‘nice!’, so I’m afraid that will have to suffice as far as this appreciative comment is concerned.And a somewhat belated (I don’t think I’ve said this earlier) congrats.
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Posted on 18-Jun-05 at 7:04 pm | Permalink2 Sweetie(s) given
Posted on 19-Jun-05 at 5:02 am | PermalinkThat’s absolutely lovely. I trust you’re making a book of these for little aceEvans …..
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Posted on 20-Jun-05 at 6:05 pm | Permalinkambi - ta.
pog - what does he need a book for when he / she can read my blog like
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Posted on 20-Jun-05 at 10:05 pm | PermalinkSacrilege. Books …. well… books are.
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Posted on 20-Jun-05 at 11:00 pm | Permalinkthe text from a blog can easily be cut-and-pasted into a ‘text-to-speech’ program, and thus the baby can enjoy the blog long before he could read a book, which would require someone to actually take the time to read out loud.
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Posted on 21-Jun-05 at 12:02 am | PermalinkWell, that’s hardly likely to happen, ambi.
Pog, not to worry - young Blogster Jr will indeed have a hard copy of this stuff, including ultrasound photos, cards from well-wishers, the calendar in which Mummy crossed off each day of torture and suffering in her countdown to the big day when she could have a drink again, etc.
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Posted on 21-Jun-05 at 1:00 am | PermalinkThat’s what I like to see, Kate - proper priorities - wine and sushi - hurrah!
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Posted on 21-Jun-05 at 6:00 pm | PermalinkI have been there and am now re-entering that place so that resonated with me and hence the reward of two, yes count them, two sweets.
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Posted on 24-Jun-05 at 4:00 pm | Permalink