illusion of safety
Quentin Crisp do a talk at the Library Theatre called Some Straight Talking From A Bent Speaker, which is a brilliant title
“We’ve got a lot of social problems in our world. Yesterday, I went into town in Sheffield to do an interview. The amount of people that were out of their minds at 10am and just passed out at 10am was epidemic. These people out of their minds on spice or cheap booze or whatever, each of them will have a heartbreakingly sad story as well but they all get judged as one big homogenous lump, which is not helpful.
“I was reading the news, and my mum said something to me,” Hawley told NME. “She’s not alarmist and has lived through a lot – she’s 82 – but she said, ‘It almost feels as bad as it did during the Cuban missile crisis, we’re on the edge of the abyss’. Then just says, ‘Anyway, I’ll see you later love’.
Remember who we used to be?
History is what you make it
The wisdom of the fool won’t set you free
I tried and I tried but I was never the same
I knew her initials but never her name
How many people have you really loved?
My life is a hashtag 