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or floating away

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              And Smoking Afterwards

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                          I would like to see a Jan Porcellis seascape

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        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnxUIni0mIo

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I love this for it's simplicty, the beauty of it's imagery.

Marianne Moore – “The Steeple-Jack”

Dürer would have seen a reason for living
in a town like this, with eight stranded whales
to look at; with the sweet sea air coming into your house
on a fine day, from water etched
with waves as formal as the scales
on a fish.

One by one in two’s and three’s, the seagulls keep
flying back and forth over the town clock,
or sailing around the lighthouse without moving their wings —
rising steadily with a slight
quiver of the body — or flock
mewing where

a sea the purple of the peacock’s neck is
paled to greenish azure as Dürer changed
the pine green of the Tyrol to peacock blue and guinea
gray. You can see a twenty-five-
pound lobster; and fish nets arranged
to dry. The

whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt
marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the
star on the steeple; it is a privilege to see so
much confusion. Disguised by what
might seem the opposite, the sea-
side flowers and

trees are favored by the fog so that you have
the tropics first hand: the trumpet-vine,
fox-glove, giant snap-dragon, a salpiglossis that has
spots and stripes; morning-glories, gourds,
or moon-vines trained on fishing-twine
at the back door;

cat-tails, flags, blueberries and spiderwort,
striped grass, lichens, sunflowers, asters, daisies —
yellow and crab-claw ragged sailors with green bracts — toad-plant,
petunias, ferns; pink lilies, blue
ones, tigers; poppies; black sweet-peas.
The climate

is not right for the banyan, frangipani, or
jack-fruit trees; or for exotic serpent
life. Ring lizard and snake-skin for the foot, if you see fit;
but here they’ve cats, not cobras, to
keep down the rats. The diffident
little newt

with white pin-dots on black horizontal spaced-
out bands lives here; yet there is nothing that
ambition can buy or take away. The college student
named Ambrose sits on the hillside
with his not-native books and hat
and sees boats

at sea progress white and rigid as if in
a groove. Liking an elegance of which
the sourch is not bravado, he knows by heart the antique
sugar-bowl shaped summer-house of
interlacing slats, and the pitch
of the church

spire, not true, from which a man in scarlet lets
down a rope as a spider spins a thread;
he might be part of a novel, but on the sidewalk a
sign says C. J. Poole, Steeple Jack,
in black and white; and one in red
and white says

Danger. The church portico has four fluted
columns, each a single piece of stone, made
modester by white-wash. Theis would be a fit haven for
waifs, children, animals, prisoners,
and presidents who have repaid
sin-driven

senators by not thinking about them. The
place has a school-house, a post-office in a
store, fish-houses, hen-houses, a three-masted schooner on
the stocks. The hero, the student,
the steeple-jack, each in his way,
is at home.

It could not be dangerous to be living
in a town like this, of simple people,
who have a steeple-jack placing danger signs by the church
while he is gilding the solid-
pointed star, which on a steeple
stands for hope.

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What if I just don't believe in a god or any of that
superstitious nonsense, being a good neo-pagan,
can't be be hollering 'praise be' now can I ?
(good song tho')

            Hallelujah Morning

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuRU5jFp8oY

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Strawberries and Wine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhObzUFajo

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                        With Audrey Hepburn

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Custard      can't get enough of it,  has so many uses so my Eff tells me

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Woman goes to the doctor and says can I have some more
sleeping pills for my husband.  Doctor says why do you need
more and the woman replies “cos he's woken up”

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A big thank you to young Mosky for cold inviting me
to try out my new boots  …  aahhhhh bless

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Her gaze was drawn by Lady Ganderpoke's nostrils flaring at the smell of something noxious in the air.
It dawned on her that the Earl of Bedlam had flatulence again even after she insisted that he never
eat the spam and nutella fritters again but his mistress, Pixie Hotmuffin, although she was 87 kept
frying them in patchouli and almond oil.  Despite the numerous fires Pixie was never put off by the
appearance of a fit fireman dragging her out of another smoke-filled room to receive chest massage
and mouth to mouth resucitation even though he wore a rubber mask to do so since the first time
she nearly sucked his face clean off.  The good Lady Ganderpoke shuddered at the thought of it.
Never again she cried.

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Ethel and me celebrating the arrival of Hot Kissing

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Jesse DeNatale   Shangri-La West

(an amazing voice)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFLmdszh5-E

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