"and as for using the poor boy who died in mini stocks as an example makes me feel sick".
WHERE the **** does anyone say THAT??????????????????????????????????????????
Nobody Died is by Jeffrey Harrison.
How many times did I say it
over the past decade,
until it became a kind of mantra,
the measure of any crisis:
�Nobody died.�
I said it to myself
to put events in perspective,
and I said it to others
to remind them that things
could be worse.
Always in the background
was the awful fact
of my brother�s death;
for any lesser calamity
I needed to be grateful.
Our house was burglarized:
diamond earrings, pearl necklaces,
all handed down
by ancestors long dead.
�Nobody died,� I said.
It was like a charm
I wore around my neck
as a form of protection,
an evil eye
to stare down death.
I said it again
to our friends at the lake
when their boathouse burned down,
but felt how selfish it was
to be ranking their misfortune.
And then the phrase began
to go sour. I worried
that it might be asking for trouble
to keep saying, �Nobody died,�
a way of taunting death.
So I quietly let it go,
as if to row out
far from shore
and drop the amulet
into the lake�s all-seeing eye. ....................................
You just waste your time sometimes.
Still, a few might have known where it came from.
If you're going to say something, make sure it's correct, otherwise you can just look stupid.
Just before I wrote this I had a cold call for solar panels. I told them that as I was surrounded by trees, I'm shielded from the 'sunlight', "Oh but Sir, they work on 'daylight' not 'sunlight'. FFS, it's ALL uphill with some people.
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