things I've never seen #3

the film Broke Back Mountain

and that's because I chose not to. . . the story, one of many equally beautiful (if you are of the XY persuasion and have only seen the film, you might not understand this), is to be found in a collection of short pieces of writing by Annie Proulx, Close Range: Wyoming Stories, and has provided me with many many moments of inspiration when examining life from the point of view of a "shirtsleeves within shirtsleeves moment" (upon which I dwelt frequently in the original I, Like The View)

things I've never seen #4

the film The Diving Bell and The Butterfly

I do remember that I purchased the DVD just before having the ECT, and I do remember talking to the wonderful and delightful Tom about the book while I was in hospital and I do know that one day I returned to my room after being in my "50%-" smoking place to find he had left the book on my bedside table. . .
.

. . .because I still have his copy

I don't really want to give it back, because I want to hold onto a piece of the delightful Tom; that sounds a little perverse - but something good has to come out of my six week incarceration, six sessions of ECT, huge quantities of new drugs and only being able to sleep if I take the tablet my brain is now addicted to, doesn't it - doesn't it?

(I sent Tom a postcard c/o the Head Clinic from France - it was of an image of a wave washing over the sands of a shoreline on which were two starfish nestled together; I thought of him and "it matters to this one" instantly; perhaps that is what I should hold onto, rather than his book)

things I've never seen #1

.

I've never seen
ducks bump into one another -
you know, as people do sometimes
when walking along a pavement

things I've never seen #2

an invisible man
(or woman,
now I come to think about it)