Words : Roger Moroney

You have to burn the brain . Make that slushy wandering mind . Or perchance … the heap of slush work hard until it says enough is wondering mind ? enough and finally sends you into that strange

Whatever , I continue to think about things ,

dream land .

which is a reasonably good exercise , and I

Crikey , if my dreams were comprised of reality

continue to occasionally spend excessively in

I ’ d probably be doing seven to eight years

bottle stores . For I live by the doctrine of the

without parole . Aren ’ t they great ?

Lord of Spending , Lord Recklessly .

And so it came to pass that on a recent late

So be it . As long as there ’ s enough to pay the

evening the casts of my dreams again failed to

power bill then she ’ s all going swimmingly . For

arrive on the set so I began toying with letters .

now . And as long as I can drag together four or

Not the warning ones from my solicitor , the

five hours of sleep then all is dine and fandy . I

ones in the alphabet . For that day I ’ d had a few

don ’ t count sheep to try and engage the gear

ales with my brother ( well fancy that ) and for

of sleep any more , for there simply aren ’ t

some reason we started talking about that

enough left out there .

thing known as DNA .

So I play with words , and the letters which

Don ’ t ask me why , it ’ s just one of those things

comprise them .

you veer into when you run out of descriptive

I made up a four word sentence where each

and suitably destructive terms to describe that

four letter word all had the same letters . It was

imbecilic clown who ruled the USA for a term .

about a royal cheesemaker called Meda . So

We had heard the term of DNA many times ,

then … Dame Meda made edam .

but neither of us could unravel what those

Are you asleep yet ?

three letters stood for .

I have steered down this path of thought

“ Does No-one Answer ?” I suggested , and the

before , for when sleep is elusive you begin to

conversation ambled off in no particular

get tetchy when the clock strikes 2am .

direction . Not that it had a direction in the first

88 KIWI RIDER