The Formation of Words
This is me and Joyce at the Broadway shopping centre, having a burger before we go and see Wild Hogs; which was entertaining and pointless.
I'm in the country; each day settling down. There's not much I can do to change the past.
It's quiet, very quiet; and all the things we used to be; they've gone. The secret voices have corroded, the cheese-holed fabric of the cliffs; the silent places where we hide way up on the ridge; the quiet sound of the birds and the smell of smoke. I reach back and I say to you: come hither. There's no point dwelling in regret any longer. We reform and we reshape and we begin again; her kindly eyes; asking what I think of the news of the day. There's not enough coffee in the world to keep me awake; and suddenly I'm full of sleep and depressed dreams and a clutching hopelessness; and we bravely face what had become nothing but a terrible pretense.
THE BIGGER STORY:
ABC Radio:
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s1896202.htm
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has condemned a suicide bombing inside the Iraqi parliament building in Baghdad.Two lawmakers and a parliamentary official died and 20 others were wounded -- around half of them MPs -- when a suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt and carrying a suitcase entered the parliament's cafeteria. Witnesses said the powerful blast took place shortly after parliament had adjourned for lunch. The bombing was carried out despite a massive US-Iraqi security crackdown which began in Baghdad two months ago.In a radio intervew Mr Howard called the attack "lethal, horrific and cowardly"."This surge (in violence) has got to be broken and be made a failure," he said.
Access to the Green Zone, which is home to the Iraqi government, the US mission and other foreign embassies, is heavily restricted, and visitors must pass through at least six checkpoints and several metal detectors.
"There is a strong indication that the suicide bomber was a bodyguard of one of the lawmakers," a senior security official said on condition of anonymity.