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TX: 08.01.09 - John Killick's Dementia Poem - Looking Up PRESENTER: WINIFRED ROBINSON |
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Downloaded from www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 THE ATTACHED TRANSCRIPT WAS TYPED FROM A RECORDING AND NOT COPIED FROM AN ORIGINAL SCRIPT. BECAUSE OF THE RISK OF MISHEARING AND THE DIFFICULTY IN SOME CASES OF IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL SPEAKERS, THE Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ CANNOT VOUCH FOR ITS COMPLETE ACCURACY. ROBINSON Now for another poem from John Killick. As a writer in residence at hospitals, hospices and nursing homes he's created poetry from the words of people with dementia. John Killick has just published his third collection of these poems, they're called Dementia Diary and we're featuring them all this week. Today it's a short piece called Looking Up. KILLICK Why cry when you can laugh? It doesn't cost you anything You can do it all your life You can put it in a wee envelope in your baggage Or put it up on the wall so that everyone can see it People think that you need something beautiful to make a beautiful picture But what you need is skill And the eye to see that it is beautiful There's beauty in everything if you look for it The sky through the skylight In colours or not It depends on your mood Oh, I went to look up in the sky And I saw it shining there And I said: "That is life." Are you going to take me to see the sun? ROBINSON And there's more about John Killick and his work and a chance to hear all of this week's poems again on our website bbc.co.uk/radio4 and then click on the link to You and Yours. Back to the You and Yours homepage The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is not responsible for external websites |
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