*commonplace-book*: June 2006

Water water everywhere...

Here in Brisbane we are on level 3 water restrictions.
This mean no garden watering/car washing etc with a hand held hose. Buckets only.

The Wivenhoe dam continues to have less and less water in it.
Down to 29% cpacity.

Still, you can refill a pool.

The rain that falls - in abundance last week - apparently doe nothing but refill what has been lost through evaporation.

We are saving cold water from the shower - as we wait the arrival of the hot stuff - but since the garden is a sodden rainsoaked quagmire what do we do with it?

Say this three times fast!!

Brobdingnagian \brob-ding-NAG-ee-uhn\, adjective:Of extraordinary size; gigantic; enormous.

The venture capital business has a size problem. A monstrous, staggering, stupefying one. Brobdingnagian even.-- Russ Mitchell, "Too Much Ventured Nothing Gained", Fortune, November 11, 2002

There I am
laying on my back, sprawled across the blue blanket
in exhaustion; I drag the mentholated air
into my crackling lungs.

I hear the rattle from within as I let
the air out
tis not a death rattle, nothing so easy
as that. Only the process of life
of breathing in and out
crackle in crackle out.
Asthma.

Partnered with a prosaic cold; I am offended -
I prefer my illnesses more exotic.

Or not at all.
Yes, not at all is what I prefer these days.

On havng asthma in a room with a humidifier

sweet sweat upon my brow forms
in beads of
persperations and desperation.

the gurlgle of the damp air
meets my porous tissue
inhale and exhale

my mind and heart crave creation
my lungs stuggle for air
my body demands sleep

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The next match for us

Monday 26th June
17:00 (German time)

G 5 Italy v Australia

World Cup = no sleep!

I made it out of bed at 6:30am to watch the last part of the match between Us and Coatia.

Interesting and thrilling even with tissues and so forth surrounding me.

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