How Dare You
How dare you ask me To feel sorry For you Who are too beautiful too thin And so young How dare you require my Understanding When you have everything Big and shiny What would I not do If I had All that How dare you expect Sympathy You who are too clever by half And pleased with it too Overweening Demanding attention And getting it Then feigning modesty It is impossible for me To feel you Through the layers Of an I who have nothing I who have No-one I wish I was you You who too
This Old Grief
‘Al di la’ is an old Italian song that won the Eurovision singing contest in 1961 and it’s going through my head now, 2018, USA, Boulder, Mapleton Hill, purple storm coming in over the mountains, and me as grown up as I have ever been and currently, at this moment, un-bereaved in any way. It is a mournful song about love and loss made famous by Connie Francis and my head is going ‘round and ‘round singing this and my chest is heavy like iron and my heart feels dead with the d