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Re: LGM what a joke
Posted by 'alanrr' on 19 May 2015 @ 17:17

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"and as for using the poor boy who died in mini stocks as an example makes me feel sick".

WHERE the **** does anyone say THAT??????????????????????????????????????????

Nobody Died is by Jeffrey Harrison.

How many times did I say it

over the past decade,

until it became a kind of mantra,

the measure of any crisis:

“Nobody died.”

I said it to myself

to put events in perspective,

and I said it to others

to remind them that things

could be worse.

Always in the background

was the awful fact

of my brother’s death;

for any lesser calamity

I needed to be grateful.

Our house was burglarized:

diamond earrings, pearl necklaces,

all handed down

by ancestors long dead.

“Nobody died,” I said.

It was like a charm

I wore around my neck

as a form of protection,

an evil eye

to stare down death.

I said it again

to our friends at the lake

when their boathouse burned down,

but felt how selfish it was

to be ranking their misfortune.

And then the phrase began

to go sour. I worried

that it might be asking for trouble

to keep saying, “Nobody died,”

a way of taunting death.

So I quietly let it go,

as if to row out

far from shore

and drop the amulet

into the lake’s all-seeing eye.
....................................

You just waste your time sometimes.

Still, a few might have known where it came from.

If you're going to say something, make sure it's correct, otherwise you can just look stupid.

Just before I wrote this I had a cold call for solar panels. I told them that as I was surrounded by trees, I'm shielded from the 'sunlight', "Oh but Sir, they work on 'daylight' not 'sunlight'. FFS, it's ALL uphill with some people.

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LGM what a joke by 'rs03tel' (19 May 2015 @ 11:45)

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