'the fire's burned, the ashes spread, the lifted light hears all that's said...'

the day's tasks? 

hop the eggs round to the crossroads (more of a t-junction really). 

take the recycling bin down to the bottom of the drive (like an actual physical wheelie-bin, not just a computer icon). 

in theory the weather will be greyish and cooler but with possible sun in the afternoon.  thursday a thunderstorm. friday just a rainy day. 

and friday horsemouth will be back to the wen. (the weather should be decent in the evening then there there's a possible thunderstorm saturday afternoon). 

'the fire's burned 

the ashes spread

the lifted light 

hears all that's said 

we are undead...'

horsemouth is trying to work out where harvey bainbridge copped the lyrics from. any thoughts? it seems rubiyat of omar khayyam-ish to him. hawkwind have a history of lifting poetry (longfellow a psalm of life, shelley hymn of apollo verse 3 etc.) as well as employing poets - michael moorcock, robert calvert and summarising novels (particularly under calvert) - steppenwolf, high rise, damnation alley, jack of shadows. 

chat GPT (or the microsoft search assistant copilot) liked it anyway but the poems it suggested as 'like' it (the hollow men, t.s. eliot etc.) weren't that convincing. 

horsemouth is not the only person to be sitting with kafka's diaries of late - the LRB (that is the london review of books) have been doing it also. they plan to put on a show at st. mary's church hay on wye on the 1st of june to coincide (roughly) with the centenary of kafka's death on the 3rd. it will feature music from max richter's the blue notebooks featuring some readings of kafka and ceslaw milosz.

horsemouth (as you know) will be away. 

howard's epistle to horsemouth has arrived. 

horsemouth has read it. he will not be telling you very much about it because (hey) it's a private letter. what he will do is show you what howard wrote on the outside of the envelope 'a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse' (as well as the address obviously otherwise it wouldn't have got here, plus there also had to be a stamp affixed). 

well it's a beautiful morning. horsemouth has bin out and watered some plants (not that they need it). hopefully the runner beans will grow up the trellis fast enough to avoid being eaten by the slugs. 

horsemouth has a meeting today 12 to1 on blended finance.