Richard Lung

Mother and Son (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

I'm here, Richie. I can't bear shutting the door in day-time, and locking.
What have I done to deserve this? How did I get like this? What the hell is going on?...
Dad's died, has he? You didn't tell me. I was hoping against hope he was alive. I love you so much. I decided I was going to walk but I didn't know which way to go....
It's put a sort of red mark on my arm. It's nothing.
[The killing cancer spread was beginning to show on Mums left arm.]
I want to be with you. The only hope I've got...
What do you think they're doing this [for]?...
They all work for the same cause, and don't you forget it.
It makes me sick, to think about it.
Are you there, my sweet-heart? I know you are, and I love you. I'm not blaming you. I don't know [what to do] unless I run away.
The help is nothing. It's stupid. You know damn well it's never coming. I don't care; you do as you like. I have no faith in that.
I love you; I shall die loving you. I'm sat in this empty bloody room. I've nobody to talk to. I might as well be dead, without this. How can I live without a friend or relative?
Where are you?
In me bed-room. I mean, can't [you come]? My health is deteriorating [-- tragically true -- ] and I'm unhappy. Other people got out. They got Win out. [Ella names residents after former friends. The care home moved a resident friend to another level.] And I'm going to die; I know I am. What else can I do? Horrible bed and walls in this horrible place.
It's not me, it's the council.
It's no good, day after day, night after night; it's a nightmare. Every day, without any friends, any relatives, nothing. I'm fed up with it. I'm thinking [can't you get me out of here]?
I can't do that; it's against the law. [What Ella called a wicked law: deprivation of liberties.]
[It's a free country, isn't it?]
Not any more.
No help, nothing. It just goes on and on and on. And I die, in between. What have I done? Nothing. Just helped people, all my life. Never had anything special for myself. Once you're tied-up, nobody can help you. And I'm stuck in this bed-room, and I've no hope. It's not a haven. It's one poor old girl.
Everybody'd be too old, to get me out. [Ella is thinking of her relatives, who have passed on.] I worked best I could. I looked after me family. What the hell is wrong with this world? I'm not even going to talk about it. You can't change the local law; never mind. What's wrong with this bloody world?
[I have tried to get you home.]
I know you have. But it doesn't work. You're too good for any of 'em. You have to do things different.... Long lonely nights; nothing to look forward to.
I'm sorry, I can't expect you to do [for me]. People aren't [obliging]. Your way is too official. I don't know what's up with it. Even I was better...
Lips are red raw; I'm sat in this horrible place, and I don't know who's coming in, next.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Richard Lung
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005478513
• Artikelnr.: 72406129

Autorenporträt

My later years acknowledge the decisive benefit of the internet and the web in allowing me the possibility of publication, therefore giving the incentive to learn subjects to write about them.

While, from my youth, I acknowledge the intellectual debt that I owed a social science degree, while coming to radically disagree, even as a student, with its out-look and aims.

Whereas from middle age, I acknowledge how much I owed to the friendship of Dorothy Cowlin, largely the subject of my e-book, Dates and Dorothy. This is the second in a series of five books of my collected verse. Her letters to me, and my comments came out, in: Echoes of a Friend.....

Authors have played a big part in my life.
Years ago, two women independently asked me: Richard, don't you ever read anything but serious books?
But Dorothy was an author who influenced me personally, as well as from the written page. And that makes all the difference.
I was the author of the Democracy Science website since 1999. This combined scientific research with democratic reform. It is now mainly used as an archive. Since 2014, I have written e-books.
I have only become a book author myself, on retiring age, starting at stopping time!
2014, slightly modified 2022.