Day: August 16, 2022

Interest-free loan to buy your food in Iceland

I can’t afford to buy any crisps today I can’t buy any tea

But I just got an interest-free loan

If I can’t afford it now how can I pay it back?

Is this is Johnson’s last bad joke he does deserve the sack

They needbto be more cruel like in the general strike.

They didn’t care if the miners died or whether they had bikes

Boris Johnson come on now what the hell has Boris done.

He got himself a a daughter he got himself a son.

He has seven children anyway so it’s not new for him.

But it is new for Carrie and her pretty face looks grim

The poor

The women with no money keep their eye pencils for years

They get chronic infections that look like poisonous tears

Could they follow Jesus and love all humankind

What do you think you would do if you were going blind?

Comparisons are odious we were told at school

But I always like to see just home the rulers ruled

The mind that sees the mouth that speaks the area that listens in.

The body with its hormones songs for

blissful sin.

If you have no money they say you can have more

If you are a prostitute or just another whore.

On the road the car slow down the women raise their eyes.

Sometimes there’s a murderer sometimes there’s a spy.

She took him round the corner she couldn’t see a face.

That was the end for Julie Jay

She was buried wearing lace.

He spotted my hoax and ordered some curry

I emptied tomato sauce over my head,

Sent for the doctor and lay on my bed.

He spotted my hoax and ordered some curry

Thus encoated ,I now start to worry.

For, though a hoax ,it¹ betrayed real needs

I needed attention at record speed.

Surely an articulate woman like me

Can make to all a sensible plea.

Acting out is usually done

By those who privacy wish to shun.

But sometimes it’s tempting to throw a fit

And give the boot to our stiff upper lip

I recommend yoghurt and warm cherry pie

Spread it extensively round your eyes.

Call the doctor and say you’re hot

After all.who’s ever not?

All the way

Oh let me be neurotic in my way

I’m heterosexual but I’m feeling gay.

I like to meet a man

With a le creuset pan.

Because I’m far too mean to have to pay.

Will you be neurotic in your way?

Unless you are psychotic every day.

0 did you read Donald Laing

Hs methodology stang

You must decide whether you will go or stay.

Can I be sarcastic when we play

Sarcasm isvnot welcome when we pray

0h you are too dramatic.

You’re irony’s pathetic

You’re not a donkey so you cannot bray.

Mumbled and jumbled

Sorry I can’t answer the phone

I am in Treeged
I am in Spired
I am in Domitable
I am in Attentive
I am in Doors
I have been fired and can’t afford to speak
Stop ringing me up.I am dead.
Stop asking me about that accident last week.It was deliberate
Stop asking me to give you a cigarette.I only know the missionary position:Jesus never smoked.
I do not want to become a Christian.I don’t believe in conversion.
Stop asking if I accept my sins are forgiven.I want to suffer guilt if I do wrong.
Stop telling me Jesus was the Messiah.I don’t believe in believing
I am an unorthodox Jew so I do odd things like watching burning bushes and writing on my Tablet.I have now got a new commmandment
Do not ill treat immigrants or people you wrongly call immigrants.After all one might be the Messiah or Satan.Or me or you one day

Oh,steam iron I worship you


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Oh,steam iron how I love your heat
And how you make my clothes so neat.
A flat iron is no use to me
No open fire is here,you see
And though I liked the flickering coals
I feared those faces that looked droll.
They were in the flames and peered
At anyone who ventured near.
I wonder how the people past
Kept their trousers neat and pressed
Now I’ve bought a hand steamer
To keep the germs off my femurs
I didn’t like to say,my crotch,
In case the devil is on watch.
I never ever used to think
My body perfume was distinct.
And yet it may appeal to men
I don’t want to try again.
One dear husband is enough
Though he did enjoy a cough
He had asthma and bad eyes
Looking out with wild surmise.
He saw my golden hair float by
As by his window it did fly
All at once he fell for me
And we sat by an apple tree.
His clothes were wrinkled so I thought
I would iron them for a start.
He could darn and polish floors
Cook lamb chops and apple cores
So my steam iron sees much use
I wonder if it’s self abuse
For as a woman feminist
I’m not meant to iron vests
I’m not meant to boil men’s socks
Nor their pants of interlock
I’m not meant to make them tea
What a naughty person,me!
I must confess these strangling sins
Then I’ll polish my old bin.
Satan wants me down in hell
Don’t say he needs my iron as well
As he was an angel proud
I’ll save him into One Drive Cloud

The burning stubble , earth’s deep fires

  1. Oh,doctor I  have a brought a sample
    I hope you will find it ample
    There is no coffee left today
    Drink my sample, then we’ll pray

    If I’ve got a new infection
    Can’t you give me more protection?
    My immune system’s  gone on away
    And I have to write a Play

    No Shakespeare  am I as yet
    No bookmaker’s taking bets
    But if I write a sonnet new
    What will all the critics do?

    Meantime I get up at night
    Stumble to the bathroom bright
    I don’t know why my pee’s  so green
    Now it is aquamarine

    Green the sea at Hythe in Kent
    Down the Saxon cliffs we went
    The burning stubble , earth’s deep fires
    The inner work  that purifies

    Steep,steep road in our old car
    Smoke around us  where we were
    From the depths my soul cries out
    The cry is answered , do we  doubt?

    As we reach the lowness deep
    In our conscious mind we weep
    When we touch the lowest place
    We will    feel, angelic grace

    So the symbol  of  deep fires
    Filled my mind as we drove by
    Glory , for the Burning Bush
    Burned again  as stubble’s crushed

 

Destruction  of all our intent
Is itself a  sacrament
For it makes an empty space
Where  new creation can take place

We created God

Why we shop is not so hard to know.

When we’re lonely time goes all too slow.

And in dark night a minute is an hour.

The faces on the wall now seem to glower

When there are no adults children sob

Maybe that’s why man created god.

Mother shopping

0 I wondered what our mam bought in the sales

She always did annoy me with her tales

Here’s a woollen vest made for a boy

I’m sure it’s something that you will enjoy.

Here are shirts and trousers but no dress.

I

I felt into the bag, there’s nothing left

My face fell when I ran upstairs to bed

If you find it send it to my head

Buying the blue coat

In the year 1989 I learnt that one of my students a young woman called Heather who was married to another student was diagnosed with cancer of the bone.. she had told me in the summer term that she had a pain in her thigh.

I think I may have told them if I had surgery on my foot in 19 78 for a tumour between the bones

When we started the autumn term Heather told me that she has cancer and she was going to the Royal Marsden hospital for treatment that was the end of September l

ByChristmas time Heather has died leaving a young husband devastated

Before she got so much worse I went to see her in her flat on about the 20th floor of a tower block.

She was sitting at the table Open in front of her a text book and she show me that she waskeeping up even though she could not come to the classes.

When I was coming back from seeing heather the last time I went into Marks and Spencer’s and bought a blue coat.

I had the urge to take something in because I was going to lose someone.

It would have been more rational to give the money to Jeather who was very poor or to donate to an appropriate charity.

I remember after leaving Heather’s tower block I had to walk along the street in a very rough area and young men were swearing at me even though tears were running down my face like rain.

But Heather had never complained about that. But I realise why she had bought a dog

If I had not bought the blue coat I suppose I would have forgotten about it but we don’t know do we ?

How to successfully waste even more money

Why not buy yourself a brand new winter coat in your favourite colour even if you already have 10 winter coats

And since the autumn is coming on why don’t we subscribw to our favourite magazines as the weather gets bad and we can’t get out to the newsagents to buy them.

Doesn’t every woman deserve some new new leather boots for the winter even if it never snows where she lives.

Why bother to go shopping stock up your food cupboard or fridge when you can order a takeaway delivered to your door every evening?

Oh maybe one of your friends would like to eat in restaurant with you. You can pay with your credit card.

Why not start the academic year with a new watch so that you get to the lecture room on time and don’t take the students waiting.

If you work in an office that’s a reason to buy a new watch

Your sister will need one too.Buy online and have it delivered. You need to show how much you love her and you can’t see how to do it without spending a lot of money

Because everybody else including your sister will buy one and you can get some with red straps and red faces that will keep winter depression at bay. Though it might bring on panic disorder when you get new credit card bill and then you have to pay a therapist to help you with your depression

Then you might think why am I wasting money on the cheap therapist when I can spend 10 years in 4 times a week Freudian psycho analysis. That will help me to get to the bottom of why do I waste money on things I don’t need and it will also make me bankrupt at the same time

The link between money and mental health – Mind

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/tips-for-everyday-living/money-and-mental-health/the-link-between-money-and-mental-health/

These are some common ways money can affect your mental health:

  • Certain situations might trigger feelings of anxiety and panic, like opening envelopes or attending a benefits assessment.
  • Worrying about money can lead to sleep problems.
  • You might not be able to afford the things you need to stay well. This might be housing, food, water, heating, or treatments like medication and therapy. See our information on what to do if you can’t afford the things you need.
  • Money problems can affect your social life and relationships. You might feel lonely or isolated, or like you can’t afford to do the things you want to.

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Do we waste our money too?

https://swnsdigital.com/us/2019/05/americans-spend-at-least-18000-a-year-on-these-non-essential-costs/

Fifty-eight percent believe there are important things they are unable to afford – putting money into a retirement account (38 percent) and life insurance (35 percent) were at the top of the list.For those who don’t have life insurance, the top reason for not having it was they thought it was too expensive (52 percent).

“People tend to overestimate the cost of life insurance,” said Ladder Co-founder Laura Hale. “Trading off a couple of smaller short-term purchases per month can support a monthly policy payment. It can give you the longer term satisfaction that comes from making sure your family is protected.”

The survey found that only 10 percent of respondents know that they could get life insurance in place in less than 15 minutes online.