There are some things
you might need
for a reason
or another
things you might rarely use
things you might need spares of
things that might cost £40
things that might cost 69p
bonsai scissors
leather gloves
teeny tiny cages
spare space
bits of slate
ephemera of foam
a smoker a suit
a cheap pair of reading glasses
It’s really quite sad when you have to lose all your bees
To starvation
To disease
To mysterious circumstances
To your enemies
the mice the wasps the woodpeckers
some cows some stupid humans
the moths of this and the moths of that the moths of everything
mites woodlice mould mites
Don’t count your honey before it’s capped
Tangible, a visceral response
40 to 60lbs of honey per year
Or a layer of dead bees on the floor
When you need to do something then you should
make a strategy first and think it through and
if it seems sensible it probably is right, right
On the whiteboard
Dramatic irony / Tragedy / Death / Fate
Act 3 Scene 1, The outline of a man, like a crime scene
“What a bee is a bee is not a wasp”
“The bees are always capable of a surprise” (and, a little
sadly) “The bees cannot read about us, the way we can read about them”
that grand summer when everything went right every day felt like
christmasses or every other day or at least the days were like
12th July
Christmas Day
Boxing Day
Christmas Day Again
New Year’s Eve
New Year’s Day without a hangover
18th July
19th July
Christmas Eve
Boxing Day
Day after Boxing Day
Day after the day after Boxing Day
Another Christmas Day
except when you got everything you wanted it was also great
weather so you could enjoy being outside as well as not being
at work so everything really was really great for all those
Christmas Days
Christmas Day repeat
Christmas Day
Boxing Day
31st July
1st August
New Year’s Eve
Another 31st July
Christmas Day
5th August
6th August
7th August
8th
it ground to a halt sometime
sometime around the middle of August
sometime around the middle of August we finally took the down the tree
and we had to pay for all the presents and late nights
and we were with hangovers for several days
as the sun beat down too hot but it was also raining at the same time
and we were each other both sick and too close
16th August
17th August
That day in mid-late January that’s supposed to be the most depressing day of each year
The day after that
20th August
21st August
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