ada ciganlija
england’s greatest one-armed poet
out for a walk.
(avi is a magnolia blossom, banner is a grey cat, seated on a yellow chair, behind a bowl of satsumas)
- he also told me that his bedtime routine consists of saying the our father then counting backwards from a hundred then making up nonsense phrases (one was ‘bouncing blue banana peels’) until he loses consciousness
- he is a Character
- my dad handed me the obituary he has written which completely neglects to mention that my mother had any children at all but which names him as ‘the love of her life’ lol (editing commences tomorrow)
- in lieu of flowers i am going to get some little plants which people can take home with them she loved gardening! this just came to me and i reckon it’s a good idea
- i’m going to tell you one thing, when i went on sunday she was asleep and unresponsive so i read to her from the quijote and when i left i hugged her and told her i loved her and she stirred and whispered i love you baby
- to have dragged that up from what depths, incredible. i went every day this week after work and she went deeper into herself not to return, and now these will be her last words to me
- my mother is now at rest. she outlived the country she was born in, went to a school where she wrote on a slate, grew up hungry but read books instead, learned languages, crossed borders and now has crossed the ultimate one. vjećnaja pamjat this is your final nursing home update
- i played her fernando by abba on my phone (which she loves) and no one came to tell me to turn it down, that’s where it’s at the beginning when the flutes are fluttering over each other has always made me think of water birds coming to rest on the surface of some great river
- Sve vojske angelske, pretečo gospodnji, apostola dvanaestorico, svi sveti sa bogorodicom, molite se za nas da se spasemo
- you do not have to hand it to robber barons either ok
- next door is taking out his recycling in a fur coat and fur hat and he is so cute and chic god please bless him and his family forever
- i thought of this tortoise today, the memory of this event somehow surfaced and i wanted to see him and here he is i hope it makes you happy like it made me happy. can a person gently and tenderly hold a tortoise? it seems they can, so beautiful
