I strolled down the bund in Shanghai
Arm in arm with a girl one mile high
I asked for a kiss…
And then I just missed..
My flight to the Burj in Dubai
A short limerick composed for fun at Christmastime Dec 2012.
This limerick shouldn’t need a lot of explanation
All characters including myself, totally fictional !
Tall buildings in Shanghai and Dubai a reality…
I read that the gunman who shot his mum, himself and all of those poor kids at Sandy Hook today, that he was himself scarcely but an adult. Perhaps he thought it was an event, an act from which he and his community could recover, that would set his world right, but sadly his expression of madness involved a gun, with death at its bullets and barrel and Death is not a Parenthesis.
Of course we all know that due to our love of the ultimate power of the gun, we cannot avoid having that power available to those who might best not have it. Unfortunately death, and senseless tragic death if final, it is not a parenthesis. It is not an aside, from which we can recover. No it is an ending of the sacred lives of our children and usually the gunman( in this case a child of 20) which burns forever in the hearts and minds of the living. Our argument for the gun is one of defence. A good argument, but a bad conclusion.
I read today about a son who shot his mum, who as a teacher dies at the hands of one she loves in the midst of others she cared for and loved and who loved her. Our thoughts and prayers for the living who in the wake of this tragedy have the hope and courage to change the desire for people to have and hold guns (which are no parenthesis).
PS: I found a link – which has a group of people who seem to want to take action
No but the best thing about an e-Reader is that although it is light to carry around, it is not too light, that it will flutter away in the wind, or when the fresh spring breeze blows in the park, you don’t find the pages flipping around mid-sentence. Or even trying to find the right place to sit and read, the e-Reader can look cooler, than wrestling with a book in the wind. What about a tablet you say ? No – I don’t dig tablets. Too heavy, too much color, too hot to hold, and you just cannot read them too well in the sun. A tablet too is going to make you think – maybe I will just check my email.. or maybe facebook, .. and before you know it you are out of the garden, out of the bush, and stuck in some banal commentary about a cat or a dog in someone else’s house on the other side of the world.
Yes and e-Book is a great idea, take you library in your pocket, go out into a bush garden or down the street, and depending on your mood, pick something good to read, while having that coffee, or smoothie, or beer, or martini, or late night drink at the bar.. and not get distracted with emails or other internet based distractions that will encroach on you bit by bit – and eat away at your nice time with a book.
Not just any book. Yes you can go to Gutenberg and download that fav French novel fin de siècle and when incomprehension strikes,?, hold a fat finger on the foreign mot and voila, the text pushes aside for the moment, and the dictionary entry shows up.
A Cockatoo sailed through the trees barking arrk,
and landing white on the gum tree stark
blue black feathers fly with ash on their wings
as the crow steely eye reflects future flames the bush would bring
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