Mystery, comfort, and a doughnut

I’m in Oldenburg’s ‘third place’

A space for creativity, and
alternative belonging

A slower pace

My coffee is hot, long
and black

I connect with my
thoughts and converse
with my soul

I read

I listen

Words lift and levitate,
then land

I scratch and scribble

Sentences take shape -
there’s sounds, syntax
and sequence

The Prince of Darkness -
Nick Cave - visits upon my
notebook

‘Is joy a choice? No one’s able
to be joyful all the time. Joy is
a sort of euphoric spasm. Joy is
dependent on our suffering.

Happiness is a different emotion
altogether.’

Amy Taylor lays out lines
for me too -

‘Turn the volume down
on the bad stuff.

Turn the volume up
on the good stuff.

Dream big.’

Mambo’s Reg Mombassa is on hand -
to drip into this draft’s design

‘Be optimistic
and embrace
any opportunities
that come your way.’

There’s a mystery
in other people - but
there’s comfort too.

My coffee is cold now, still long,
still black - it's always half full

I might as well eat a doughnut -
while crying in the bath

An original piece crafted while sitting in one of my favourite ‘third spaces’ recently. I’m grateful to Nick Cave, Reg Mombassa aka Christopher O’Doherty, punk poet Amy Taylor, and Lorin Clarke for sending some of the sounds for this session - the sentence structure and syntax, and cerebrating, are mine.

Dream intentionally - while you’re awake.