A SPANKING NEW JEEP-LIKE THING
or a dilapidated steam engine
so, writing-wise
what you might have been hoping for is
a spanking new jeep-like thing
which runs on little gas
and is good for almost any terrain
but what you get is
emerging slowly from a
rusting corrugated-iron engine-house you
hadn’t even noticed was there
a dilapidated steam engine
groaning and clattering
and bashing against itself
while trundling slowly forward on wonky rails
yet, which
for all its diverse issues
does actually
and this you might celebrate
function
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in other news
quiet days, maybe many weeks
dodging the spasmodic Monsoon torrents
in the very green grenery
above Sedi, next Pokhara
with lanes, temples, lakeside and more
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in other news
after a noisy night of torrential downpour
i was on a hillside of ebullient verdure and no way forward
so, teetering, i had a battle with the terraced mud wall of a paddyfield
and both me and the wall lost
so my wonky umbrella and my browned trousers are each kaput
yet when i looked back the errr sculpted mud bank was errr collapsing
and cascading
in an increasingly kaput kind of way
so, at some length, with some extra misadventure
i retreated way back to my room to watch the Herzog movie Fitzcarraldo again
which is a safer kind of epic activity
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though it was a while before i spotted the bloodstain on the sheets
from the leech i must have acquired
probably whilst walking booted in the stream a path became
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so i have a curiously symmetrical leech bite on one calf
and a once-big-now-healing spider bite on the other
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in other news
next step the next steps
round in circles
and back here again
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