“I can’t go on…”

Yram sits on their favourite bench at the station and feels the words of John Donne’s poem, No man is an Island.

Yram’s twin, Mary is dead. She didn’t die of COVID 19 but Yram can’t mourn with others who loved Mary because of lock down.

Yram appreciates how the virus highlights the words “…. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.”

Yram’s heart calls out to the cosmos ” Good Bye Mary. And thank you for your love. I will go on until I don’t!”

Rodan Museum Gardens.

” I can’t go on, I will go on” Samuel Beckett

Horsey is a thinker. He prefers to stay hidden. However he shares a friend with Rodan in Rumi.

Miserable just couldn’t seem to lift his head to look around him and see…… but then he finally did!

Life is Fine by Langston Hughes

I went down to the river,

I set down on the bank.

I tried to think but couldn’t.

So I jumped in a sank.

I came up once and hollered!

I came up twice and cried!

If that water hadn’t been so cold

I might’ve sunk and died.

But it was cold in that water! It was cold!

I took the elevator

Sixteen floors above the ground.

I thought about my baby

And I thought I could jump down.

I stood there and I hollered!

I stood there and I cried!

If I hadn’t been so high

I mightv’e jumped and died.

But it was high up there! It was high!

So since I am still here livin’,

I guess I will live on.

I could’ve died for love–

But for livin’ I was born

Though you may hear me holler,

And you might see me cry–

I’ll be dogged, sweet baby

If you gonna see me die.

Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine!

Miserable was in Leutasch and man was he glad he hadn’t jumped!

Pig found himself in Le Jardin de Plante and guess what? There were some fellow country folk. Kangaroos!!!!!

Monsieur Couchon is no longer sure whether he is French or Australian or indeed African. Quel dommage!

I suppose we all  are a bit of everything and that is what makes Mr Pig feel like keeping on going as he is a small part of a whole.

Feather also went a roving to Leutasch Austria despite what Lord Byron was saying ” We’ll go no more a roving…

Tum hopes Dog will get to Mt Field in Tasmania one day. In the meantime Tum is in heaven. Tum contemplates time and realties that once Tasmania and Antartica were joined…. so in a way he has been to Antartica. He’ll keep look out for any penguin.

Cam Ron wondered why he was being told to swallow a camera of all things! But he did what the imperial doctor told him to do. Perhaps he can get the video and turn it into a horror movie! Then he thought he might find fame posing in the Alphington Art Show and they even made a video and he is there! Aaaah, fame is intoxicating!