pickLimburg's grief at her brother's death by suicide makes up the poignant first sequence of poems, The Oxygen Man, reflecting on life as a surviving sibling ❤️🩹
The Autistic Alice is the second sequence, on Limburg's life as an autistic woman in a society that others both of those threads of identity, using Carrol's Alice books as a reference.
The final sequence is a collection of Other Poems, which are funny, touching & observant. Loved this: 5♾️
You're Not My Dad, John Inman
"Got lots of Dads beside my Dad -
television's full of Dads.
Mr Corbett, he's my Dad,
Michael Bentine, also Dad.
Roy Castle is the Singing Dad
and Brian Cant the Voice of Dad,
Play School, Play Away teem with Dad.
John Inman, though, he's not my Dad -
not everyone I love is Dad."
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"She will harrow this town, she will turn him up, whole or in pieces."
- Sister, from The Oxygen Man
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
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'Excuse me,' says Alice.
'May I say something?'
'Of course,' says the Caterpillar -
'You may say something-'
'Yes,' says Humpty Dumpty,
'and we'll tell you why it's wrong.'
- The Alice Case
The #neurodivergent person's experience of assessment by neurotypical "experts". ♾️
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"The Yiddish proverb that made them laugh so much was: 'Your health comes first: you can always hang yourself later.'"
- Notes on an Unwritten Eulogy, The Oxygen Man
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The Autistic Alice | 
