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Wednesday, April 27th 2005

14:25

Essay - What I Did Today

Doing some clearing up this morning and came across a Silverstein book. Sat down to glance through it – four hours later………

His work goes back to when I think I most enjoyed myself. We could all do Mick Jagger impersonations, drinking lasted all night with hardly any intoxication, work was worthwhile and not too demanding anyway. Old Shel wrote some serious stuff as well as Dr. Hook lyrics. Almost any of his songs grips me – somewhere amongst my stuff I have a CD of him doing some of them. The bit of poetry that sticks is this one.

 

 

 

 

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends

 

 

In my blog-land wanderings I’ve found one written by a guy who purports to write from a nursing home. He’s 74 but has a fine attitude to being out of regular circulation. Here’s and example of his sort of stuff

 

Just because we live in The Home for the Feeble doesn't mean we're dead. We have feelings: remorse, pity, anger, fear of psoriasis, and like that. To say nothing of intense heating of the loins. Well, not all of us. Those of us whose prostates have bit the dust are more or less bereft of hot loins.

But not Jillian Comeagain. For one thing, she never had a prostate to give up, and she's ordered an aluminum casket so she won't burn up in a pine box. Jillian is 95. She has had her cap set (see how old people talk about courting?) for one of the two bachelors in The Home. I could see this coming, so I planted a he-voice-activated tape recorder in Jillian's pad, and one day got this after he came calling:

She: "Say something nice about me."
He: Yes'm. Le's see: Your hair is nice and shiny, sure 'nuff, like the tails of the rats that got into Uncle Fred's axle grease. Your varicose veins don't remind me of anything so much as a road map to the county dump. And I love to gaze into your limpid pool of sties. Now, you say something nice 'bout me."
She: "Did you know you were circumcised with pinking shears?"


Splutter, phtz, sqawk....Tape malfunction

 

Well, as you can see, I’ve been wandering quite a bit. This has kept my mind busy and off the sort of crap I usually post. I’m ending this now so as not to spoil a good posting.

 

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I managed to pop over to that blog today at last...what a dude! I have to go back and read more :o)
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