Mel From Melbourne Poems & Essays & Back & Forth Or is it Essays & Poems & Back & Forth? By Malachi Doyle Most works taken from https://melfrommelbournemusicwords.blogspot.com/ 2019-2023. Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2023. Email: malachijdoyle@gmail.com Foreward: Go well my friends. This work is a bit of an ungainly thing As life is, I guess. A mirror or a hall of mirrors In a mirror. Or vice versa. Some are too didactic for mine. I’m bored reading them. (Still I’ve read em a lot). You can always skip sections if ur bored. There’ll be sweeter pickings further up the road. (now I’m mixing metaphors! (eyeroll)) The rhetorical has come to me more in my middle years. I used to be more carefree, when my life was more inconsequential. The 8 years I’ve spent as a teacher of young minds. Lotta pressure there. The stakes are high. Now it’s time to be free