George Henry Cousins 2 Jan. 1936 - 10 Mar. 1980
Tomorrow morning I shall again light a candle to the memory of my father, Henry, who took his own life 46 years ago. I am now very nearly two decades older than he ever was. He had around 20 years of employment with the NZ Meteorological Service.
Here he is at around 18 or 20 years old and again several years before his death. I remember taking the second photo, I would have been 13 or 14. He was a good man.
Why Onions Make You Cry
A quotation from James Thurber
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms — hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.James Thurber (1894-1961) American cartoonist and writer
Essay (1958-12-07), “State of the Nation’s Humor: ‘On the Brink of Was,'” New York Times Magazine
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Why Some Butterflies Drink Tears
These lines are to commemorate my spectacular failure to win the North Street Book Prize with my 2024 collection “After Spruce: Poems in the Manner of Tom Jenks’ ‘Spruce’ During the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic”.
Originally published Poetry and Covid December 2020
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