DON'T MIND THE GAP

August 24, 2009

Sorry for the long gaps between installments, life and other things demand my attention. I'm afraid there may be a longer gap before Part Eleven appears as I must finish some urgent work. But please don't go away. As well as a beginning and a middle, this story will also, in due course, have an ending.

August 7, 2009 -  BIRTHDAY BOOK

If I were to write one page
for every day year of my life  (UPDATE: I meant to say year in the video too!)
that would be a very short book
even if I live to be a hundred.

A hundred pages! That's not a novel.
Maybe a novella
a long short story
or a slim volume of poetry.
Not enough for me.

To make a proper heavy book
a door-stopper
I'd need a lot of illustrations
even for those pages I can't rememberand those which must remain
silent, unwritten.

And where are all the people?
All those who took the pictures?
Who made me smile
or frown
or cry?Those who shaped me.
Without them
who am I?

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