Wm turned in the night again

digging his heels into my hasty pudding.

(Dove Cottage Maxim 13:

You can never have too much oatmeal.)

Our first weeks here we made maxims – late into the night.

I use 'we' loosely, of course,

Although I did proffer some choice morsels

Dove Cottage Maxim 14 [rejected]:

You can never have too much laudanum.

Wm's recall of M Wollstonecraft selective, as usual.

Dove Cottage Maxim 7:

Never confuse theory and practice.

DCM 8:

Never confuse poetry with reality.

Earlier in the evening we had braved a brisk wind

To go lie in a ditch covered with twigs.

I thought it was pretty lame at first

But after the first couple of hours I got into the swing of it.

There are many ways to induce hallucinations

But lying in a ditch covered in twigs was a new one for me.

I'm still pissed, though, that we never get to play the games

I want to play.