UNIQUE VERSE I try to think of something big [A topic for this ode] But nothing comes to mind. Then it occurs [to me] that Nothing is really big For what is anything but nothing Call it what you will The

BUBBLENEST CHAPTER THREE SEASHORE Piers chose a serpentine path through the park on his way to the beach. When he was alone and had no need to hurry, he invariably did this. On this occasion it not only

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. Sleeping cat Never snoring Sleeping cat Puddle of fur Sleeping cat Of birds dreaming Feathers fly, as birds fly As blood flies Cats with balls of wool Play.

Eggshells and skeletons, A crumple-clatter jive, Neon and helium To die to be alive To hell with hell Flame and ice There ain't no god And death is nice!

What of Earth with man not there? Birds and bison oblivious of our lack. The fleas might miss us.

Sleeping in its ash-dry lair, The dragon dreams of yesteryear, When it's wake was paved with fear, Of how in those far-off days, It inspired the doleful lays, Of bards forgotten, ---- every one. Will it

BUBBLE NEST CHAPTER TWO FIRST INTERVIEW The waiting room was enough like any other waiting room in the human resources section of a well-funded research organisation, not to be worthy of special comment.

BUBBLE NEST CHAPTER ONE PRELUDE Dawn broke gently, but brilliantly. In minutes the dazzling light poured through the high windows of Piers’ loft, to bathe his still sleeping form. His eyelids were no match

If snakes be legged lizards And lizards legged snakes A snakeless leg a lizard's is 'Cause a lizard's got what it takes.