I have decided to finally read The Love song Of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S.Eliot.
Later.
Perhaps up in Maine at my sister’s house, the most welcoming easy-going place on the planet.
No tv. Just NPR. And whatever music she & Bobby her 72 yr old hippie “paramour”, or partner, pick for the occasion. Bobby loves occasions: often he makes them.
I am usually constipated in body and mind when I go up there. These folks are the elite. I mean it. A little out of touch with popular culture, sure, but they get what they need of it filtered through Public Radio.
I am sure they don’t know squat about Casey Anthony or Derek Jeter’s 3000th hit or Law and Order’s wonderful fare on tv or the new Harry Potter or any of that trivial shit I tend to gravitate towards…
uh,to use as metaphors, of course. For example: celebrities are our pantheon of Greek gods, yes? Their antics are hugely magnified but recognizable as our own. ………………………………………………………….
Ok, Prufrock…. It starts with some Italian from Dante.
A guy engulfed by flame in some hellish region says “no one gets out of here.” Hm. Kinda like jim Morrison the dead “poet”. No one gets out alive.
“let us go then, you and I” Who, now? Ah, an unidentified male companion. Gotcha.
Blah blah blah, etc.. Aha!
“Do I dare disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For Decisions & Revisions Which A minute will reverse.” …………………………………………………………………………
I love that. It sounds like what it’s like to be bipolar.
Eliot left America & became , what?, Catholic or English/catholic, whattaya call it? That’s ok. I know a lot of catholics. Not enough girls, ha. Guit? That’s ok. I know a lot of catholics. Not enough girls, ha. Guys. Disturbed by the upbringing. Bobby, for instance. His rants on Catholicism are priceless. ………………………………………………………………………….
I rarely engage him in conversation. I am too timid. He is too learned, and I am a primitive autodidact. Well, maybe that will be my mask for this trip
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cynical when the wind blows in from america,
a pair of serious moviegoers
a generous couple
fine cooks,
yumm
painfully accurate llike yours
is welcome.
out into an anaesthetic cosmos
let's make our visit
to the attendant lords
and ladies
lonely dukes and duchesses
of the sea, cleaned of seaweed,
pink, ready
and doomed.
out into an anaesthetic cosmos
let's make our visit
to the attendant lords
and ladies
lonely dukes and duchesses
of the sea, cleaned of seaweed,
pink, ready
and doomed.
out into an anaesthetic cosmos
let's make our visit
to the attendant lords
and ladies
lonely dukes and duchesses
of the sea, cleaned of seaweed,
pink, ready
and doomed.
Why not disturb the universe? Jim Morrison and Dante did so well with it.
too nice a guy to upset the applecart..
maybe i will..thanx
too nice a guy to upset the applecart..
maybe i will..thanx
too nice a guy to upset the applecart..
maybe i will..thanx
too nice a guy to upset the applecart..
maybe i will..thanx
no earlier then 2 or 3 and
done for sure
by 7 sharp
for the closing of
low tea cannot
be delayed....
And...
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet......(T.S. Eliot)
And what face Sire should you create
for this very special date?
An occasion of the ages
and do we not all come to different
conclusions with lines prepared
for the curtain call of all plays,
while the family
awaits and the scones
are put on plates.
I would just bring something that looks good in your hand and conveys the proper image.
Eliot is OK. Good, in fact.
My go to book is The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
No law that you have to actually it.
bump into Thomas Stearns at the opera
or the tiger (played the blues there) once the brass hammer
once home to big-titty strippers
selling Amway to Methodists and repentant reptiles
crawling across sawdust floors
past the oyster shells
and muzzled yellow smoke
but
did i hear mr. Marlow speak of Michelangelo?
maybe a 72 year old hippie was laughing
don't know
did You know
last night the silk city premier of Harry Potter's Wheel
was free
gratis for those who wore
a morning coat, collar mounted firmly to the chin?
and so it went
a flash
a sigh
a bet on the sulkies
running late
at
Scarborough Downs
jack, i was being ironically irate
jack, i was being ironically irate
not at the saying but the server
I have never seen a primitive autodidact
in full costume
Hope your sister has a camera
or the hippie.
Could be a really cool avatar
rated with love and hopes for a great read in a wonderful place