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desperance ([personal profile] desperance) wrote2008-05-02 01:10 pm

Bagpipe music

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.
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[identity profile] lamentables.livejournal.com 2008-05-02 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
13 entries further down my friends page there is a posting about a bagpipe busker and thoughts of Louis MacNeice. I find this slightly spooky.