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Thursday, May 30, 2024

WAY TO START THE DAY

by Jim Murdoch


This artwork was created with the help of Artificial Intelligence using NightCafe Creator.


My Facebook feed is
full of AI’d jpegs of
Scarlett Johansson.
 
There are worse things to
wake up to in the morning.
So. Many. Worse. Things.


Jim Murdoch lives down the road from where they filmed Gregory’s Girl which, for some odd reason, pleases him no end. He’s been writing poetry for fifty years for which he blames Larkin. Who probably blamed Hardy. Jim has published two books of poetry, a short story collection and four novels.