Thursday is black. Murderous vissicitudes with husband and children lead to a sleepless night and today I have a ominous ache zinging spitefully up and back from belly to heart.
The day brings the usual round.. The boy tells me passionately that "you expect me to sacrifice my health to your stubbornness ", when I refuse to stock up on some junk cereal he desires ( the semi nutritious one I supply doesn't agree with him. Seemingly). "Yeah and Fruit and Veg!, thats two entire food groups you have already sacrificed to your HEALTH" his knowing sister sniggers .Energetic insults are traded .Someone asks me for money I don't have on me, for something essential, urgent. At work a large swathe of the public have decided that all the bad stuff in their lives can be traced back to some small inadvertence of mine, some failure of attention on my part.
At lunchtime I decide to go home to my mercifully empty house, take refuge with book, blanket and tea. . And just stop.
The day brings the usual round.. The boy tells me passionately that "you expect me to sacrifice my health to your stubbornness ", when I refuse to stock up on some junk cereal he desires ( the semi nutritious one I supply doesn't agree with him. Seemingly). "Yeah and Fruit and Veg!, thats two entire food groups you have already sacrificed to your HEALTH" his knowing sister sniggers .Energetic insults are traded .Someone asks me for money I don't have on me, for something essential, urgent. At work a large swathe of the public have decided that all the bad stuff in their lives can be traced back to some small inadvertence of mine, some failure of attention on my part.
At lunchtime I decide to go home to my mercifully empty house, take refuge with book, blanket and tea. . And just stop.
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