its nearly 7pm on 11th May now

its nearly 7pm on 11th May now

I've got the music on as usual 

and my ears are fizzing like calcium in a science experiment

an ambulance has just pulled up further up the road

I hope they are OK whatever it is

As for my my Blood Tests cancelled again

my local blood test girl is still sick

So I have to rearrange it

Every 3 months required as I have CKd

and if it got worse you are talking about machines

and so forth for my Kidneys

I'm praying Putin's war ends and sending. Holy Pictures in the night

to various Russians, reminding them to be Christians

You could do the same yourself

Putin will lose of course

But how much will he trash Ukraine before going away

Crimea will have to come back too

And as for his bridge that'll have to come down

Though I read somewhere that is so badly built

It'll come down anyway

Corruption Everywhere in Everything means

There is no Quality Anything in the USSR 2,0

except BS Propaganda 

The smell of pain killer rub on my left shoulder 

is stinging my eyes

But I've watched more of The Sound of Magic

so I'm happy enough, and the Fairy Food delivery man was here

So long as my daughters keep the pace then both

will do great in their exams, top of class or very close

then I'll be praying I win the lottery to pay for

all their Education

Me I have all I need I won't wear out my clothes

before I go to Heaven or the other place

My knee is itchy perhaps I need to kneel more

and Pray I live longer  to win more Lotteries

and pay for all their Education.

It's not up to me anyway

So that's all for today I need to have a shave

and look 20 years younger

I am 20 in my head your know, though I can hear you snigger

You are thinking of a number much bigger

Finally when my small daughter was very small

She once said I LOVE YOU 20

Which was the biggest number she knew

so good day to you 

12th May 1996 My Mum Died

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Tonight into the morning marks my mum's Quing Ming as the Chinese say

She went to bed and died besides my dad

read Padre Pio and Me for more

Her death set off a chain of events

8 weeks day my dad nearly died too

but Padre Pio really did come to the rescue

Finally 3 years later, after visiting him

every single day, I ended up with a Shanghai wife

The 12th May when mum died, they all stopped up

through the night and listened to Celine Dion on the radio

You Lifted Me Up was the song

so Health and Happiness to Celine too

that song has become part of the family now

Dad said mum was as strong as a horse

And he was a Blacksmith so a perfect compliment

which makes me a SOB, Son of a Blacksmith

May also marks the month when Chinese Grandpa died

in 2004 And if you go to a Graveyard in Shanghai

you can see my name on his tomb, the son in law

michaelgcasey in gold lettering on a black stone

His ashes were interred and my bigger daughter was there

she put a Christmas card on top of the box with his ashes in

I was left holding the baby back home in Birmingham

May was also the month when I had one our lodgers die

on me he had a heart attack and I had to deal with it

I was still 20 then

So May is full of memories for me

And this is a poem I wrote on a bus in November 1987

I wanted the Undertaker to be a poet, I was still writing

The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker by Michael Casey (me)

The Dead and The Living (c)

 

                           by

          

                     Michael  Casey

 

 

     I first saw a deceased when I was nine years old ,my father said  not

 

     to worry as the dead are the same as the living ,  only the  laughter

 

     has left them ,  the sparkle has gone from their eyes , the worry has

 

     been lifted from their shoulders ,  and their voice has vanished  to

 

     eternity .

 

     In  paradise the sparkle will return for it is the  twinkle  of  the

 

     stars , the laughter will return too for it is the morning breeze and

 

     the turning tides are their sides shaking with laughter .

    

     I treat the deceased with the same courtesy as I give to the living,

 

     though I find the deceased are always more polite .  My father also

 

     had a few words to say about the living .

 

     He said that the living are only the caretakers of the  soul  ,  yet

 

     they think their existence is everything , that they know everything

 

      because they experience many things with their senses .

 

      What the living don't acknowledge is that their time is  short  and

 

      when I lay their bodies to rest then their souls  continue  without

 

      them ,  without their strong ,  without their weak ,  without  their

 

      beautiful or even ugly temporary form , to where I cannot say , only

 

      that it is a better place .

 

      Percy the undertaker placed the lid on the coffin ,the soul was free

 

 

                          THE  BEGINNING

 

so there you go, now you know what May means to me

I also know for a fact, 

my Mum is leading the prayers for Peace in Ukraine

she always had the Rosary on the go, with her hand in her pocket

as she watched tv too

as I remember my mother the last time I saw her alive, in her blue smock, 

she is part of Mary's Blue Army

How to Write a story (c) by Michael Casey

How do you write a story (C) By Michael Casey

Posted bymichaelgcasey10/05/2022Posted inUncategorizedEditHow do you write a story (C) By Michael Casey

How do you write a Story(c)

By Michael Casey

Well first of all I cannot teach you, because I don’t think it can be taught, so what I’ll do is tell you what I do. I hope that’s enough? And if it’s not, tough. First of all Tinnitus is a curse, and it’s screaming in my head as I try and talk to you. It’s 9.30pm on 10th May 2022, for any of you who like dates. And if you take me on a date, be nice to me, and make sure I get home safely, or book a nice hotel if you are seducing me.

Now first of all did you spot the rhymns? What I’ll do followed by tell you, for example. Then enough rhymned with tough. It’s very simple stuff, have I explained enough. Moon and June in songs, bad songs are worse, you just wish there was no second verse. See worst matched with verse. I may be wrong, but I’m explaining via a song, for Wong our Chinese cousin. Shanghai family and all that, and I did just actually let out the cat. Totoro is her name, she climbs the high ground on the fence, and view the land, so she cat attack, as she’s an alley cat.

I hope you’ve had enough of all this, wait a sec while I have a pee, I’ve been drinking too much tea, actually it was Pepsi and I do have Ckd actually. If ever you meet somebody who writes like this, excuse yourself and have a pee, and don’t come back, not even for your flasher mac.

Now I did LISTEN to BBC Radio 4, like the internal BBC World Service for 20 years, constantly. Then I started writing, so that’s over 50 years in LOVE with words. I did of course read by the yard, everything in the bookcase my desk in Primary School, History mainly. Then loads more too. If you want to give your kid an advantage glue the dial to the BBC radio, not music, just Quality Speech Radio. Don’t them have a phone till secondary school, and switch off Wifi as needed. Give them pencils and crayons and let them learn to draw too. All this will help this their brains expand, without the use of harmful chemicals. I mention this as I spotted a kid in the street sniffing laughing gas as he walked past my house. STUPID. I’ll mention another thing 20, years ago at the hotel, one of the staff was given E on a night out, the next day I had to call an ambulance for them as I was the First Aid guy on duty that day. Substances are killers, they ruin your imagination.

So, how do I write a story, simple, I make it up as I go along. If you have read a lot, and listened for 20 years to radio plays and stuff, you should have something in your head, not forgetting lots of films on tv, maybe 5 a week, nowadays maybe more, though Korean and other foreign films, or Lord of the Rings yet again on tv. The writer was a Birmingham man, I bet some of you don’t know that. For The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker maybe a tiny bit of planning, but otherwise I let it roll till I finished on Leap Year Day 1988. Then I wrote a few plays and stuff, before deciding to do History and Shakespeare at the Open University, 3rd Level which is equal to 3rd year University. I was also working full times including night shifts in my Computer Room. After all that constant work and study for 2 years, like F1 and F2 like hospital doctors, my nephew is at Med school, that’s why I slipped in that comparison. 80 hours a week for 2 years, I decided to rest. Hence no more full length books but Short Stories.

However I do have enough ideas now for the sequel to The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker , Tears for a Butcher, that would take a year of my life at least, if I had the energy. So that’s why I repeat myself and say I need a Korean speed typist, so I could dictate to her, and for a reward we’d have four kids and form a Kpop band. Or is that just a bucket list wish, or are you all being sick in a bucket at the very thought of it. I’ll have you. know 20 years ago, one of the girls at the hotel said that another girl wanted to breed with me, because my daughters were and still are so pretty. Or is that the sound of you all being sick in the bucket.

So you start a sentence, and that leads to another, and you just continue, if you can see something out the window it may be included subconsciously, like a fat silver haired man in shades walking by, or is that my own reflection. As you write you reflect on things, and you distort things like mirrors at an amusement park. I’ve just remembered when I was 1st in Shanghai before I had kids, there was a mirror there that we looked in, but nothing could make me thinner, maybe that was at the zoo where they have real pandas. See a memory from long ago just bubbled up and hit the page, it’s as simple as that really. I seem to remember everything, if I could do that for work related things then I would have made a better career path. Instead Korean Kdramas are the best part of my life, in between chronic pain and Ckd but at least I do have a great Pirate scar in my chest to bore you all about. So that’s it for tonight, its 10.25, have you had your money’s worth, just give writing a try, it’s kept me happy for 35 years now. Though I’d say it took a full year to teach myself, after the 20 years or Radio +.

That’s all, and don’t forget to pray the Rosary for Peace in Ukraine, Putin is insane, can Russian’s find their Courage and give him the Elbow, or Elba like Napoleon.

When the war is over

 when the war is over

Ukraine can rebuild stronger

the first need would be hospitals

so maybe a Lego style construction

little small cottage hospitals all over the land

so a quick solution, till time allows better

20 bed hospitals, with a chapel in the basement

Solar cells all over to provide Wifi

a doctor can be far away but see over the Wifi

You can even get windows where the glass

can make electricity too

then outside colourful plants or trees

just keep it simple

I imagine for $100,000 a small hospital 

could be built

Maybe get the Chinese to donate a hospital

they built one in 3 weeks when Covid was raging

That was 1000 beds, if I remember correctly

Ukraine can licence/control it all

All these makeover tv programmes

they could come and build a hospital

Adopt a Hospital programme

Build and Adopt a hospital and so on

The idea is very simple, just like me

Ukrainian ingenuity is the mother of everything

And yes give a Name not just a number

to each and every hospital

I know near Odessa is a catholic church made 

of containers, so there they could make

a small hospital and chapel

Padre Pio Hospital Ukraine, no.1

or whatever hospital number you'd give

Then work your name through the names

of Saints and Poets and famous Ukrainians

and so on, Have a name not a number

for Hospitals and Schools too

All those horrible Soviet style monuments

could be replaced by flowering trees

Yes, none of this is up to me

But as Ukraine has proved

you are not Numbers but People

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Cobwebs of Love

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Cobwebs of Love (c)

by

Michael Casey

michaelgcasey wrote today at 7:47 AM

Kids need good parents, friends we choose for ourselves, your families you get anyway.

I'm lucky I had great parents. Faith does help, but kids get bigger and decide for themselves if their parents were talking rubbish or were worth listening to.

Kids travel and find their own way home to their faith and their families. Elastic is very important in relationships and faith. If you try to keep things set in stone then you will be in for a fall. Nothing is set in stone, friendships change and alter and our own understandings change and alter.

Have a bit of elastic in your life is my best advice. You are not in an army and getting up at 5am and doing all the marching and so forth. Yes have discipline and rules, but be aware IF you force somebody to do something when they have the chance to rebel then they will. 

You cannot chain anybody to you or your faith, brainwashing is a bad idea, listen to the Genesis song Jesus we know him.......

So you bind your family and friends and faith to you by cobwebs of love and nothing stronger than cobwebs of love. Love should be like that its a cobweb of love, also be happy to have a Prodigal Son in your life, happy because you will always welcome them back. If you're lucky you'll never have any Prodigal sons

in your life but I already tell my kids I'll always love them and they can always come home, leave your doors open with cobwebs of love waiting there

 

 

michaelgcasey wrote today at 7:47 AM

Kids need good parents, friends we choose for ourselves, your families you get anyway.

I'm lucky I had great parents. Faith does help, but kids get bigger and decide for themselves if their parents were talking rubbish or were worth listening too.

Kids travel and find their own way home to their faith and their families. Elastic is very important in relationships and faith. If you try to keep things set in stone then you will be in for a fall. Nothing is set in stone, friendships change and alter and our own understandings change and alter.

Have a bit of elastic in your life is my best advice. You are not in an army and getting up at 5am and doing all the marching and so forth. Yes have discipline and rules, but be aware IF you force somebody to do something when they have the chance to rebel then they will. You

cannot chain anybody to you or your faith, brainwashing is a bad idea, listen to the Genesis song Jesus we know him.......

So you bind your family and friends and faith to you by cobwebs of love and nothing stronger than cobwebs of love. Love should be like that its a cobweb of love, also be happy to have a Prodigal Son in your life, happy because you will always welcome them back. If you're lucky you'll never have any Prodigal sons

in your life but I already tell my kids I'll always love them and they can always come home, leave your doors open with cobwebs of love waiting there

Waiting for the exams to be over

Waiting for the exams to be over

Well it's exam time in our house

Big Daughter is at University, she has 3 days of exams left in May

Meanwhile back here in Birmingham

Small daughter has littered the study, ok the front room where I'm sat

She has littered the floor with folders

Open folders for me to trip and fall over

And no she is not trying to kill me 

for the life insurance, as I don't have any

just pennies left in my Private Pension fund

Small daughter has 9 papers to do

starting in 2 weeks time and continuing for a month

So I have a month to continue tripping over folder

Totoro our cat comes in to have a look

and wipe her backside on Techtonics

Before sitting in the front room window

Like an Amsterdam madame

Why do cats like to sit in windows

As for me my Tinnitus has exploded in my head 

and refuses to quieten

I've slapped pain killer on my shoulder too

And paracetamol taken for my head

Luckily I get boxes of 200 from my Pharmacy

Yes 6 times what you can buy in shops

But, I'm special as you know already

I can hear you all laugh at that

As special as coffee spilt all over the floor

I did that already, luckily I have plenty of A4 paper

to mop it up with, thanks to my Student

Annie Lennox is singing in another room

I have doors open as it's hot

An old smart speaker and an old phone connected

So my Old music collection can still be heard

I have to have music 24/7 to distract me from Tinnitus

Though lately when I wake up instead of an hour

to calm down, it lasts all day

A bit like living near a motorway I suppose

In reality I live on a hill, yes I am a fool on a hill

next to a wood

But the hill is so steep it could kill you

especially if you have a bad heart

I did have a quadruple heart bypass already

I'm smiling now, what will kill me first

Though I do intend to last as long as I can

I still dream of writing that sequel

to The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker

and the sequel will be Tears for a Butcher

all I need is that Korean typepist

And then we have 4 kids and form a Kpop band

Though in reality,

A tap the window, small daughter is back home

Time for cuddles with Totoro the cat, then back to the books

10 hours a day studying  is what she does

now the background music has changed as she is home

She ate my salmon from the fridge, at least it wasn't the cat

So I need to get some shoppin in for another week

And on it goes the circle of life

and my own circle of pain

but I should not complain, I am not in Ukraine

and neither are you

I'll try and write a new piece to keep us all smiling

Tototo has just come in the study, but left in disgust

maybe it was the music, or just the smell from me

my painkiller gel, though I will fart later

as my Aunty Delia in Killarney used to say

wherever you are, wherever you may be, let you wind go free

Do they fart in spacesuits or spaceships

And there are no windows to open either

That's enough for now

I must watch a Kdrama

they are the best thing in my life as far as TV goes

I could be a PSY stand-in

though he is much smaller

How do they dance so well in Korea

That's all The Sound of Magic is calling me

another tap at the window

Food Fairy has come

ok , bye all for now

Michael Casey the fat silver haired writer in shades from Birmingham

                   me clean shaven a few months ago

 Costco a few months ago, me and small daughter

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News for New Russian Citizens, Beware. + READ a book in Jail, refuse to fight

News for New Russian Citizens, Beware

Posted bymichaelgcasey09/05/2022Posted inUncategorizedEditNews for New Russian Citizens, Beware

For Money Or A Passport: Many Kyrgyz Fighting Alongside Russians In Ukraine

April 10, 2022 09:28 GMT

• By Eliza Kenenbaeva

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Destroyed Russian tanks are seen in the northeastern Sumy region of Ukraine last month.

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A 25-year-old native of the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Sardarbek Mamatillaev received Russian citizenship just a few months ago.

Mamatillaev says he recently received a summons from the local military office in Russia and suspects he may be sent to Ukraine to fight alongside Russian forces after receiving a not-so-vague threat.

“I was told I must report to the military office, otherwise my Russian citizenship could be canceled,” Mamatillaev told Cabar.asia.

According to Russian laws, conscript age men who become naturalized citizens must undergo the mandatory conscript service in most cases, even if they had already served in the army of their country of origin.

Several other Kyrgyz natives in Russia and human rights activists confirmed to RFE/RL that many naturalized Russian citizens from Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian countries have received similar summonses or were already sent to Ukraine.

Meanwhile, many Kyrgyz citizens — in Russia as migrant workers — have voluntarily joined the Russian military as contractors in return for money or fast-tracked Russian citizenship.

“Most of the contractors are motivated by money, and I heard that they get paid quite well,” says a Russian-based Kyrgyz lawyer who defends migrant rights.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the lawyer says “those who wanted to obtain citizenship got it immediately through special decrees and went to fight in Ukraine with Russian forces.”

It’s not known how much money the contractors receive from Russia. But one Uzbek citizen told RFE/RL in the first days of the war that he had signed a three-month contract with a monthly salary of 50,000 rubles (about $650) and the prospect of Russian citizenship to drive an army truck in eastern Ukraine.

The man said “many Uzbeks” and other Central Asians were taking part in the war in Ukraine.

The number of Kyrgyz and other Central Asians fighting in Ukraine with Russian troops — as soldiers or contractors — is unknown.

Mamatillaev had served in the Kyrgyz Army before becoming a Russian citizen. But it won’t spare him from compulsory service in the Russian Army, the Kyrgyz lawyer says.

According to Russian laws, conscript age men who become naturalized citizens must undergo the mandatory conscript service in most cases, even if they had already served in the army of their country of origin.

Valentina Chupik, a prominent migrant rights defender in Russia, told RFE/RL that several Kyrgyz-born Russian nationals have approached her for advice after getting summonses from military offices.

“[Authorities] have demanded they sign an agreement to become a contractor in the army. If they refuse to sign, [authorities] threaten that their citizenship will be taken away,” she told RFE/RL.

Coffins From Ukraine

Several coffins of Central Asians killed in Ukraine have already been sent to their hometowns for burial.

On March 25, 20-year-old Egamberdi Dorboev was buried in his home village of Kara-Oi in Issyk-Kul Province in Kyrgyzstan.

The funeral of 20-year-old Egamberdi Dorboev in his home village of Kara-Oi in Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk-Kul Province.

A naturalized Russian citizen, Dorboev was drafted into the military in the Russian city of Norilsk last autumn. He was killed in Ukraine on March 8, two weeks after Russia began its unprovoked invasion.

According to Norilsk Mayor Dmitry Karasyov, Dorboev “signed a contract and served in a special reconnaissance battalion in the Belgorod region,” which borders Ukraine.

Some naturalized Russians from Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian countries have left Russia simply out of fear that they will be sent to the army.Just two days after Dorboev’s family buried him, another coffin arrived in neighboring Chuy Province. Rustam Zarifulin, a 26-year-old native of Kara-Balta, was killed in Ukraine on March 14. Citing his family, Kyrgyz media reported that Zarifulin had been a contractor in the Russian Army.

Some naturalized Russians from Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian countries have left Russia simply out of fear that they will be sent to the army.

According to his relatives, Zarifulin was killed in the eastern Ukrainian town of Izyum, which has been the scene of heavy fighting for weeks.

In neighboring Tajikistan, the bodies of two men were returned from Ukraine. The families confirmed that both men had fought with Russian troops there.

Hundreds of thousands of Central Asians have received Russian citizenship in recent years, meaning many men are eligible to be drafted into the military.

The war in Ukraine and corresponding harsh and widespread Western sanctions against Russia have sent at least 100,000 Central Asian migrant workers back to their home countries as jobs dry up. But many stay in Russia because they don’t see any better opportunities at home.

Migrant rights activists in Russia fear that more migrants will be lured into the Russian Army with the promise of fast-tracked citizenship.

But not everyone is willing to take part in Moscow’s bloody war.

Some naturalized Russians from Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian countries have left Russia simply out of fear that they will be sent to the army.

According to official figures, several hundred thousand Kyrgyz citizens work in Russia. Kyrgyz lawmaker Aibek Osmonov recently said that about 600,000 people from Kyrgyzstan have obtained Russian citizenship.

Osmonov also told RFE/RL that about 5 percent of them, or about 30,000 men, are liable for military service.

Written by Farangis Najibullah based on reporting by Eliza Kenenbaeva.

I spotted a reader in Kyrgyzstan then I spotted the news item above.

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refuse to fight.

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