Bagpipe music

[desperance]

The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever,
But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.

Or in other words, I just counted: there are four five companies or crews or individuals out there who owe me money. The big one, the main one promised to give me a verdict on a book "by the middle of next week", but that was a month ago. The others are either late, or have sent the wrong amount (and I will leave to guess in whose favour the error lies), or just aren't responding to contacts, or have lost my address. Twice. While I undergo the worst crisis of the last dozen years, and literally do not know how to pay next week's bills. I have always, always danced on a knife-edge, but I do believe I've lost my footing finally.

And right now someone really is playing bagpipes in the park, and I do believe they're channelling Louis MacNeice.