Meet The Fairytale Characters [Rev]

[Dairy Note] 

Having a hot-air balloon inflating in my left ear, taking

medication, antibiotics and cortisone started off well, 

then my ear began inflating again,  brilliant infection

doing its thing and winning, the death of good cells &

negating of the immune system - all sacrifices to kill

 

The infection reigning my life not being so effective,

somehow self-pity and self-recrimination are growing

stronger - while the brilliant Internet-guru insists that  

just concentrating on feeling well again will allow the

infection to disappear, but the only disappearing trick

 

I experience is the Internet voice growing weak in my

deaf left ear and a confounding disappearance of my 

remaining fount of happiness….

 

All I can remember in my weakened state is everything

I ever did wrong and I lost the ability to delight in music

and song, the swimming pool now is a death trap waiting

to ensnare my infected ear with more bacteria - and my

favourite author’s story about the Abominable Snowmen

 

Sounds like a moral lesson that would make both Lewis

Carrol and Alice run away, my cynical novel using fairy-

tales to explain the protagonist’s pain simply changed

me into a psychopath - I only feel irritation at her mis-

using the beloved tales to illustrate life’s failures

 

Only the description of experiencing every decision we

make as wrong, applies to my existential crisis, the

constant irritation of noise driving me insane, luckily

the Internet guru also says that if we fail to become

happy in this life, when we die we shall be happy as

 

Consciousness then releases the excitement & beauty

of its eternal existence and rejoices in its temporary

appearances in physical manifestation every now &

then - dear Internet-guru, thank you for this, I can’t

wait to re-emerge into non-physical - coupled with

 

The great theory that we shall only meet things that

vibrate and resonate with our own goals & dreams

in the life after this - where I might meet the fairytale

characters I love so much! 

Not Enjoying Life & Having Fun

Decline of my mind - commensurate with an infection

which clouds my outlook and darkens my perspective,

sans energy and joie de vivre I’m nothing - looking at

a newspaper picture of the 114 year old grandmother

claiming that her high age depends on never drinking

& smoking - which immediately shows me the way -

 

I don’t want to grow so old that people use my picture

to illustrate the witch in Hansel and Gretel’s story and

not enjoying life and having fun as the requirement for

high old age, is giving up quality for quantity; although

people celebrate the health & age of the old lady - we

shall all die sooner or later - allow me to enjoy life -

 

As much as possible, then entrust my body as soon

as used up to the good earth for recycling purposes…

And Now We Have A Cat

The kids smuggled a cat into the house, after 

a week the boss discovered him, under strict 

conditions the cat may stay & we are all glad, 

a quiet and amusing cat is just what we need 

to entertain and amuse us all!

When I Dissemble [Revised]

If I were a playwright - which I am not,

I’d have had to make one of the main

characters say the following words, all 

to illustrate what was conflict & intrigue:

 

“I’m Pinocchio who inadvertently married

Jiminy Cricket - & after years of listening

to his pedantic reprimands, I’m inured to

the pain of being perpetually criticised” - 

 

From years of meeting a constant barrage 

of castigation with self-flagellation I’m quite

calm inside - when I dissemble it is not my

nose growing but my face which is glowing  

Take Voracious Bites [Revised]

A garrulous shark told Barbara she must, for 

thousands of rand, replace motor and rails of 

her electric gate - yech! - then her brother 

came riding in on his steed, having heard of 

 

The scheme, and repaired the gate for two 

hundred rand - simply by replacing its battery - 

how satisfying & delightful it is when fraternal

love kicks in and saves family members

 

From sharks sharpening their teeth to take

voracious bites from an independent sister’s

inviolate trove of precious money!

Casta Diva Cameos

The first soprano is Joan Sutherland, of course,

then Montserrat Caballe, Renee Fleming, Cecilia

Bartoli - Maria Callas - Sumi Jo as well as Olga

Vilenskaia, and then, at age nine in 2021, came

 

Victory Brinker with a beautiful voice, technique

still developing, strong breath control & radiant

tones, though not in control of her voice when

singing legato & high notes - but what a feat

 

Pointing me to the divas who have been singing

this aria - astonished that a child desires to sing

this: how strange, how wonderful, opera will live

on with new talent willing to learn these arias

 

In order to keep delight alive…

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Another cameo performance - Katia Ricciarelli

singing Casta Diva beautifully...

 

[Opera “Norma” Schopenhauer: loss of the will to live,

leading to tragic resignation & spiritual exaltation - 

Author Ayn Rand would have pointed out that the plot 

of "Norma" is completely improbable]