In honour of McGonagall –
I wish someone would glare on me with love-beaming eyes today,
I’m afraid only my supervisor might glare on me with lightning eyes
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Rainfall in thin silver slivers
crystal drops cling to rails
sun a radiant shaft through clouds
gleaming strings stream down
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We have a new colleague, so very sweet,
smiling easily, I was tasked with introducing
her to the rest of the cast, an excuse to chat
and laugh, colleagues showing off their sterling
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Laughing again, solved my boss’ chair
problem, the back tipped back too far,
visitors ending up with their legs in the
air, tried to lever upright, but it wouldn’t
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With great passion Werner insists human
induced climate change is mumbo-jumbo,
greenhouse gas being mostly evaporation
of water from oceans
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....................................Monday Night 3 November 2008
Crying when I got home – Kingsley Centre too hot,
hot, hot, perspiring, flushing face, nauseous from
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A 66 page NEPAD document, Sinepad,
combat climate change, reading it turns
me into Quasimodo, mute and hunch-
backed, why is it so difficult to struggle
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Where will the glorious moment be today,
at what stage shall we know epiphany, will
it come by itself, shall we have to fabricate it?
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Finished reading Stephanie Dowrick “The Universal Heart”,
she makes it clear that life is about choices, and every choice
for or against love determines how we feel
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There is a rule that we may not consume
edibles or drink at our work stations, I saw
us all floating about like bats in the hall while
eating and drinking – luckily I was wrong
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