where you’re chatting up some girl
ever so casually
in a pub
or a library
or wherever, really,
for a good half-hour or more
only subsequently to realise
you have one of your girlfriend’s hairs
– a foot long, reddish,
with noticeable purple highlights –
stuck somehow
to the front right shoulder of your sweater.
I came.
I saw.
I concurred.
FRASIER: ‘… and I’ve never felt more alive!’
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FRASIER: ‘You can’t imagine the thrill I felt…’
‘Never go back to a place where you were happy.’
They will not remember you there.
“Ladies and gentleman,
one of our passengers has requested
metaphysical assistance.
Would any poets flying with us today
please contact a member of the cabin crew immediately.
Thank you.”
1200 Regimental Remembrance service, St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate
1315 Receive call-up papers (from Mother), Costa, Aldgate East
1800 Home. Open new Iliad edition.
Epigraph: ‘For Derek Walcott
More Homeric kudos’
1645 Pick up Derek Walcott’s Selected Poems in bookshop.
p197 ‘the madman who tore
Achille’s undershirt from one shoulder also tore
at his heart.’
– FROM Omeros (1990)
0930 Retweet Homeric ‘Rain of blood’ detail (courtesy unknown female)
1100 Rewrite Rupert Brooke one-liner, ref. Danish political TV series
1130 Post arrives, incl. new Johns Hopkins Iliad translation
1315 Stanford’s: 1 x scratch-off gold world map
1400 To barracks for Afghanistan mobilisation briefing
If I should die, think only this of me:
I never finished watching all of Borgen…