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I really should find myself another read. There are books that are captivating in a good sense. The one I read now for the second time is engrossing too, but its set is depressing and the main character´s features are worrisome, to put it diplomatically. This book should have a place on the highest shelf of your book-rack, all the more if adolescents are among your housemates. Reading this is like being sucked into a setting where physical and emotional pain are implements to achieve liberation of the soul. So I put away the book, browsing the web for poetry reflecting my mood. This is what I found!

The Hangman at Home

What does a hangman think about
When he goes home at night from work?
When he sits down with his wife and
Children for a cup of coffee and a
Plate of ham and eggs, do they ask
Him if it was a good day's work
And everything went well or do they
Stay off some topics and kill about
The weather, baseball, politics
And the comic strips in the papers
And the movies? Do they look at his
Hands when he reaches for the coffee
Or the ham and eggs? If the little
Ones say, Daddy, play horse, here's
A rope--does he answer like a joke:
I seen enough rope for today?
Or does his face light up like a
Bonfire of joy and does he say:
It's a good and dandy world we live
'In. And if a white face moon looks
In through a window where a baby girl
Sleeps and the moon-gleams mix with
Baby ears and baby hair--the hangman--
How does he act then? It must be easy
For him. Anything is easy for a hangman,
I guess.

Carl Sandburg

cat

When my cats are hungry, they adopt drastic measures to point this out to their tin opener, like biting toes, chasing around or moving the feeding bowl into the field of view.  Of course that doesn´t work if the tin opener  is in bed already. So devil cat silently opened the bedroom-door to do a recce on its unsuspecting owner. What, she´s reading on her e-book reader? But not for much longer! To cut a long story short, cat jumped over the raised e-book reader, promptly landing straight on my face. Ouch, that hurt!
Doctor fears that one of the scratches will scar. Devil cat has lived up to its name once again!