It's Only a Matter of Time

By Flloyd Kennedy

Flloyd Kennedy is an actress, director, singer-songwriter, creator of the audio comedy podcast "Am I Old Yet?". She was born and raised in North Queensland, Australia and moved to the UK in the late 1960 where she married and raised two sons in Scotland. In this her third collection of poetry, she writes about anything and everything, from whale

• Language: English
• Publisher: Flloyd Kennedy
• Release date: Sep 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9781838194659

Flloyd Kennedy

FLLOYD KENNED (@Flloydwith2Ells) is an Australian-born actress, director, singer-songwriter, performance poet and voice/speech/accent/clown coach. She participated in the British folk revival in the late 1960s, performed and directed street theatre and fringe theatre in Scotland throughout the 1980s and 90s, has taught voice skills in acting colleges in the UK, US and Australia. Now resident in Liverpool, UK, she's an Associate Artist with ISAAC (International School for Acting And Creativity) and a proud member of Equity. Her songs are available on Bandcamp, and. the podcast comedy-drama series "Am I Old Yet?" written and performed by Flloyd and friends is available on all major podcasting apps.

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It's Only a Matter of Time

even though time, as such, does not exist

Flloyd Kennedy

Liverpool

Copyright © 2022 by Flloyd Kennedy

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Flloyd Kennedy

Liverpool, Merseyside, UK.

www.flloydkennedy.com

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Dedication to Owen, Natalie, Aurelia and the next one, because they will know what to do

the profoundly anarchic spirit at the basis of all poetry

—Antonin Artaud

Contents

An Origin Story

In the year of...

Falling and rising

O what a day

Roll Over

Use your brain

Today's the day

In transit

Ode to the hot flush (or flash, if you must)

No Pets Allowed in a Spaceship

I Finished a Book

Her name is…

Screensaver I

Screensaver II

Screensaver III

Screensaver IV

Screenshot V

Walking on Tiree—Gale Force 8

Responding to the BBC

Who is with me?

We are our memories.

How to wear a face mask, if you want to extend a pandemic

Do not aspire to perfection

An Origin Story

for Natalie

In the beginning

there was a whale

big and blue and beautiful

perfectly big

beautifully blue

Alone in an ocean of nothing.

Or so it seemed.

And in the beginning

there was a universe

so infinitesimally, illogically small

that