I was just another one who knew it was wrong but didn’t speak up for what’s right and slept safely in my bed at night.
I was just another one who didn’t act apart for show to get brownie points racked up on my school report to sleep well on my pillow.
When history books gathered dust on my shelves and history channel commentators spouted their wise words to themselves I was just another one who didn’t stop them doing what I already knew was wrong.
And when I became just another one who got myself battered I, at least, got myself saved and conscience cleared by being a victim. Just another one who didn’t think it mattered until I was dragged away from my bed to detention for being too dim.
John Di Girolamo was born during the swinging middle ages as the Battle of Hastings raged outside on a cold, miserable Saturday evening just outside 'The Juggler's Arms' in Oxford, Torquay and Exeter at the same time. Born to a family, he spent most of his early years learning how to open umbrellas for a rainy day, and the runnings of horses and sword swallowers and the costs they incurred. Having graduated in 'Circus Management', he took to spinning plates for a living and persuaded his father to buy a restaurant to fund what he believed would be a lucrative career move. However, in the the days leading to The Age of Post Punk', he quit and would embark upon what was to go down in history doodles as a notebook.
Few knew it then but he had already started copying poetry, and often written by other people. As the minutes passed by, and Sardinia loomed, the idea of collages and drawings suddenly hit him as a way of filling up what had become a kind of book with pages and all. One day while storming off in a huff because his mum told him to, he struck upon the idea of putting it all together over a long-playing record (later a CD) and during a commercial break in the digital age, decided a blog would end Cromwell's ill-fated republic.
Sent off by recorded post, it would be by chance that his poems would get to their ultimate destination as, meanwhile, his pigeon who had queued so loyally for so long, sadly died the day before it was sacked.
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