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March 1999<\/strong><\/p>\n Everyone is panicking about millennial catastrophe, With everything that’s going on around us, I’m keeping a sort of diary because The woman next door is practising the organ. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pat Edwards<\/strong> is a writer, teacher and performer living in Mid Wales. She has been published in Obsessed with Pipework, Picaroon, The Rat\u2019s Ass, The Fat Damsel, Ink Pantry <\/em>and Amaryllis<\/em>. Pat runs Verbatim<\/em> poetry open mic nights and is curating the 2017 Welshpool Poetry Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 1999 Everyone is panicking about millennial catastrophe, anticipating computer failure on a global scale. All the clocks will stop, North, South, East, West; the moon, sun, oceans, will descend to chaos. With everything that’s going on around us, I’m not really getting very much sleep. I keep people informed with regular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14754,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions\/14754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nanticipating computer failure on a global scale.
\nAll the clocks will stop, North, South, East, West;
\nthe moon, sun, oceans, will descend to chaos.<\/p>\n
\nI’m not really getting very much sleep.
\nI keep people informed with regular updates
\nby changing the answerphone message.<\/p>\n
\nI’m sure I’ll want to look back on all this
\nonce it’s become ancient history, so to speak.
\nThat came out wrong; didn’t mean it like that.<\/p>\n
\nFriends are rehearsing what to say, how to be.
\nBut this March is turning out to be our last.
\nHow can anything ever come good with you dead.<\/p>\n