You got me when high
Which is to strike low
Thought I was rid of
Turned out Continue reading
Mental Health
Orange Abyss of Death
Things that annoy me make me write poetry; this week I was particularly vexed by the quality of an orange: Continue reading
Slain by Summer
Slain by Summer. Part 2 of 3. Continue reading
Fruits of the Loon: Tomato and Stu
The ongoing delve into mental health via the medium of fruit-infused poetry. Continue reading
Halfway to Paradise
A recent and unexpected run-in with a deadly infection lead to writing this in the days just after being discharged from hospital when everything still felt an absolute mess. The phenomena written about below—‘the flavour’—is a consequence of too much bacteria being in the stomach. No one at the hospital told me to expect it and likewise can be said for the known impact of the virus in question to a person’s state of mind. Combined with the previous week of surgeons looking at me doubtfully . . . The good news is it does eventually go, but for a while felt here to stay. Continue reading
Dryadic: No Time Like The Present
No Time Like The Present opens with upbeat foot-tapper ‘The Hat’; a story of gigging here, there and everywhere told in a cheeky Ian Drury-esque vein; smiling through not simply the trials of life but more so the death sentence of using Ryanair and then laughing riotously about it all with new best friends for life who’ll only be so for the night of a show. Not only lyrically, the vibe is caught in the music too; a feel of looking out of a car window at a never before seen fields, tired and thinking of the previous night while heading down a new stretch of motorway equally energized about the potentially likewise one to come.
The Bedbugs Bite Back
A BBC news article (link below) caught my eye the other day for being on the subject of bedbugs; one of the worst types of pests one could suffer an infestation of, second perhaps only to scabies (based on all those that we were trained to treat for).
An unusual article, in that when reporting on an outbreak of bedbugs in Paris, it was uncertain on certain details, questioning whether reports of them biting people on the Metro system were true or just internet scaremongering; an uncertainty that perhaps stems from the extremely out of date notion bedbugs aren’t really a problem anymore. Continue reading
She said it as a joke
Poetry on a particular aspect of mental health.
With thanks to Elti Meshau for use of the header image (licensing). Continue reading
A Bandcamp Friday Beginner’s Guide to Sahel Sounds
Every Bandcamp Friday the lovely people at Sahel Sounds make the whole back catalogue available at Name Your Price; a great opportunity for new comers to the label, especially in this cost of living crisis when picking up a new album for free if needs be might just be the difference between maintaining mental health and preventing a breakdown.
But with so many albums to choose from and all by artists never heard of before, where to start? Continue reading
N. P. Ryan 