Sunday, September 3, 2017

APROPOS 9-4-2017...

Of course, I think the song fits!

AND WHY WOULDN'T I ?






But in the end it all comes down to this,
"the heart has no wrinkles"...


The gal on the right has the next upcoming birthday; we all agree this female Virgo has discovered the fountain of youth [may I have a few drops?]
Happy upcoming birthday, Sue!!!

Friday, September 1, 2017

PREPARING FOR LIFE [REALLY?]

WHY NO ONE LIKES TO DWELL

ON "DEAD GERANIUMS": 
i.e.,  HIS POETRY KIND OF SPEAKS FOR ITSELF...

Rhapsody on a Windy Night




Twelve o'clock. 
Along the reaches of the street 
Held in a lunar synthesis
Whispering lunar incantations 
Dissolve the floors of memory 
And all its clear relations, 



Its divisions and precisions, 
Every street lamp that I pass 
Beats like a fatalistic drum, 
And through the spaces of the dark 
Midnight shakes the memory 
As a madman shakes a dead geranium




Half-past one, 
The street lamp sputtered, 
The street lamp muttered, 
The street lamp said, "Regard that woman 
Who hesitates towards you in the light of the door 
Which opens on her like a grin. 
You see the border of her dress 
Is torn and stained with sand, 
And you see the corner of her eye 
Twists like a crooked pin." 




The memory throws up high and dry 
A crowd of twisted things; 
A twisted branch upon the beach 
Eaten smooth, and polished 
As if the world gave up 
The secret of its skeleton, 
Stiff and white. 
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength has left ;
Hard and curled and ready to snap.

Half-past two, 
The street lamp said, 
"Remark the cat which flattens itself in the gutter, 
Slips out its tongue 
And devours a morsel of rancid butter." 
So the hand of a child, automatic, 
Slipped out and pocketed a toy that was running along the quay. 
I could see nothing behind that child's eye. 
I have seen eyes in the street 
Trying to peer through lighted shutters, 
And a crab one afternoon in a pool, 
An old crab with barnacles on his back, 
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him. 

Half-past three, 
The lamp sputtered, 
The lamp muttered in the dark. 

The lamp hummed: 
"Regard the moon, 
La lune ne garde aucune rancune
She winks a feeble eye, 
She smiles into corners. 
She smoothes the hair of the grass. 
The moon has lost her memory. 
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face, 
Her hand twists a paper rose, 
That smells of dust and old Cologne, 
She is alone ...
With all the old nocturnal smells 
That cross and cross across her brain." 
The reminiscence comes 
Of sunless, dry geraniums 
And dust in crevices, 
Smells of chestnuts in the streets, 
And female smells in shuttered rooms, 
And cigarettes in corridors 
And cocktail smells in bars." 

The lamp said, 
"Four o'clock, 
Here is the number on the door. 
Memory! 
You have the key, 
The little lamp spreads a ring on the stair, 
Mount. 
The bed is open; the tooth-brush hangs on the wall, 
Put your shoes at the door, sleep:

Prepare for life." 


The [very] last twist of the knife. 


Happy Birthday to 2 radiologists I worked with in the past: Dr. C.S. Moss  and Dr. B. Fedeson

Sunday, August 27, 2017

NOT ALL "RETRO" FOREVER WAXES "TRENDY"




FUN FACT: Mercury goes retrograde from Virgo to Leo: August 12, 2017 through September 5, 2017



JUST HOPING THIS "RETRO ISSUE" DOESN'T SPOIL PLANS FOR SOMEONE'S BIRTHDAY ON 9-4!!!


Tuesday, August 22, 2017

DO RAINBOWS MAKE YOU WEEP [FAR MORE] THAN SOLAR ECLIPSES



...  COULD  EVER  DO ?

... How about the approaching
finale of summer, with its kaleidoscope of colOrs?
(and the glorious memories that FULLY accompany them)?


“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” 




“Life is much more successfully 
looked at from a single window.” 



“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”                 ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby



What makes me weep is that 'other' line made superbly immortal by Jay Gatsby: "Summer's almost over... It's sad, isn't it? Makes you want to - I don't know -
reach out and hold it back".


“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly
into the past.”
― F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby





YET ... “Life starts all over
again when it gets crisp in the fall.” 



*MAHALO*



Wednesday, August 16, 2017

"AS THE ELDERS OF OUR TIME CHOOSE TO REMAIN BLIND" ... D. Leach

On board were the Twelve:

"The poet,

The physician,  


The farmer,
The scientist,



                                                                                             The magician,    







... and the other so-called 'Gods' of our legends"

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        Though Gods they were -