Crime To Many Is Not

A Jump Jockey Has To Throw His Heart Over The Fence - And Then Go Over And Catch It.

Life Has A Way Of Kicking One Along Like A Football, Or So I've Found. Fate Had Never Dealt Me Personally A Particularly Easy Time, But That Was Ok, That Was Normal. Most People, It Seemed To Me, Took Their Turn To Be Football. Most Survived. Some Didn't.

I Guessed Life Was Like That. You Gained And You Lost, And If You Saved Anything From The Ruins, Even If Only A Shred Of Self-respect, It Was Enough To Take You Through The Next Bit.

Let An Idea Swim To The Surface Like A Fish In A Pool...let The Mind Drift To The Vision.

I Hadn’t Had A Mother Since I Was Two, And From Then Until Seven I Had Believed God Was Someone Who Had Run Off With Her And Was Living With Her Somewhere Else... (god Took Your Mother, Dear, Because He Needed Her More Than You Do) Which Had Never Endeared Him To Me