Cannot Remain Bereft Of Joy For Long

Sometimes I carry on energised by my inner fire and then

a sudden setback contrary to my desire stops me from

continuing and bereft of inspiration I blame the voice who

uttered the denigrating words - though the speaker was

 

In neutral and did not intend the connotation & denotation

present in his uttering to hurt my feelings and thus I fall

silent & nurse my heart in the quiet, hoping a change of

action & scenery will help me regain enthusiasm to play

 

Life’s game - with this I’m going to run outside and seek

solace in the sun’s embrace and the wind’s caress and

the wonderful comfort of icy water, with such luxuries

I cannot remain bereft of joy for long!

Have To Flee To Retain My Sanity

I thought to save my hearing when no longer listening

to loud music on my earphones in the chicken coup at

work - but you insist on countering my happy listening

to Bert Kaempfert That Happy Feeling and A Swingin’

Safari while washing dishes, by playing my favourite

 

Jim Reeves nostalgic music, Distant Drums & Adios

Amigos - which is NOT suitable for an energetic stint

at the kitchen sink, but I take off my head phones and

humour you by listening, Welcome To My World - it is

impossible to understand why you always insist on

 

Taking the lead in anything we do, whether cooking or

music - but I shall be gracious in conceding defeat to

your choice of music, it might have been sad Leonard

Cohen and I would commit suicide if forced to listen to

him too often - Oh no, Help - here it comes, Leonard’s

 

Miserable crooning about Suzanne, you have found

your niche - and I have to flee to retain my sanity!

Enjoy The Ridiculous and Absurd

Looking forward to watching the Jungle Book 1967 animated

movie, my favourite Shere Khan, Bengal tiger with his deep

voice and insouciant killing instinct, Mowgli the Mancub and

King Louie, the Orangutan who can boogie really well, since 

My Beloved is otherwise occupied Barbara and I have the

house to ourselves, the President of our film club not here

to pout when we refuse to watch movies he prescribes to

edify, such as The Boy In the Striped Pajamas - we have

 

Both seen it already and it made us cry, and La Vita e Bella,

another WWII fantasy which drove us to despair - we prefer

escapism to infuse life with adventure and challenge - such

as Red and the Fast and the Furious and The Chronicles of

 

Riddick - I’ll kill you with my cup - on the planet Crematoria,

apparently a box office flop, but we don’t care, the fun never

stops as Riddick struts his stuff, we really have had enough

education for now & allow ourselves to enjoy the ridiculous

 

And absurd - whenever we want! 

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Barbara called, she feels under the weather, I’m not going

to talk at all, she threatens - It suits me perfectly, I reply -

I’m also fed up with life, people question my ideas when I

know that I’m right: I believe an artists’ personality colours

 

Their work and the observer or audience can gain insight

into their character by looking and listening, when I explain

whose voice isn’t fine - because they are too self-assured

& so self-satisfied, people complain the voice’s technically

 

Perfect, but then I think to myself: I can hear an attitude in

the arrogant sound, now I shall regale Barbara with a litany

of my grievances until she’s laughing or crying in despair…

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We had a good time eating custard slices - & I thought I

would be fine, but now my head is being crushed & only  

medication can lift the pain, my muscles are weak & so

I know these are symptoms of allergy, I will have to try

 

And sleep until I can keep my eyes open as I had fallen

asleep while watching the movie & missed a good part,

just thinking of sleeping seems such a waste of time so

I’ll send my heroine out as a spy called Marlene as was

 

Miss Dietrich, get her to save the world single-handedly

so off I go to my couch to watch BBC nature series as

Marlene tackles the world of espionage….

Tycoons Lose Their Minds Of Course

Everyone reads about the PAIN and sadness of the

great actors and actresses who are used & sexually

exploited & abused by the rich tycoons who hold the

golden key to eternal fame, but can you really blame

 

These tycoons - absolute power corrupts absolutely,

when the most adorable & beautiful people willingly

sacrifice themselves on the casting couch - telling

tycoons they will literally do ANYTHING for fame

 

They are taken at their word, yet afterwards they cast

themselves as helpless “victims” who suffered pain for

their reward - Eternal Fame - and we wonder: How do

you expect a normal human being to react when the

 

Best and prettiest people declare they are more than

willing - very eager indeed, to sacrifice everything for

fame; these tycoons lose their minds - of course! 

The Magic Witchcraft of Makeup

Such immense fun listening to Jimmy Soul singing -  

If you want to be happy never make a pretty woman

your wife - the Internet has showed us that ANY girl

looks beautiful using the magic witchcraft of makeup

 

Thus the concept of ugly women has been wiped from

the table forevermore, now it is a choice: Whether a

woman wants to spend 4 hours on getting make-up

perfect like the enchanting Marilyn Monroe did -

 

Complaining in interviews she was unhappy to begin

with - then unhappily married, continuing the woeful

tale; or whether a woman would rather do something

more creative than reinventing her face every day

 

Maybe reinventing her mind and giving attention to the

inside of her head instead of doing her hair twice a day,

rather reflecting on spiritual ideas or lack thereof, and

considering whether she HAS or IS a soul, or whether

 

There is no such thing - but when looks & appearance

is the sum total of her existence - I would recommend

finding a woman less well-groomed and concentrating

on accomplishing more than creating illusions - while

 

Creating illusions increases the entertainment industry’s

profits & I also prefer looking at Lady Diana than an old

worn-out face - but pretty women are for rich men who

own a casting couch and can demand anything for the

 

Price of fame - while normal people prefer values and

standards by which they can live in peace & obscurity,

(unless Facebook makes them dream of instant fame)

and relationships have no external, exploitative value

 

As consciousness delights in preparing for eternity

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JIMMY SOUL

If You Want To Be Happy (for The Rest Of Your Life) Lyrics

If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life,

never make a pretty woman your wife, so from

my personal point of view - get an ugly girl to

marry you, a pretty woman makes her husband

look small & very often causes his downfall

 

As soon as he marries her, then she starts to

do the things that will break his heart, but if you

make an ugly woman your wife, you'll be happy

for the rest of your life, an ugly woman cooks

her meals on time - she'll always give you…

…..peace of mind….

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An Epicurean Stoic Or A Stoic Epicurean

Google and Facebook are my favourite pests, like

precocious kids willing to help all the time & getting

it wrong because they know nothing about context -

their assistance - mostly offered unsolicited -

 

Drives every rational human being round the bend 

& will be a great distraction to a translator looking

for terms on the Internet - the worst is, Facebook

wants every individual to make the acquaintance

 

Of every other breathing human being on the planet,

it looks as if it even wants to introduce you to every

possible alien there might be, Facebook brings every

friend you had the audacity to accept, together with

 

A thousand other friends in case you see a new face

you want to add to your own menagerie - I know I’m

very susceptible, then it struck me ALL people are

susceptible, they only stick to what they have been

 

Indoctrinated with and which has been sanctioned

as conventional and safe, never looking for the “Road

Less Traveled”, thus they are never challenged, never

change their opinions and convictions, when they

 

Come across a new idea, they quickly block it from

consciousness - fearing that having an open mind

might cause their brains to fall out - not realising

their mind already is churned cream cheese -

 

While I protect my mind from “conventional wisdom”

by looking at the world with common sense, I enjoy

intellectual challenges & irrational, illogical concepts

which make most people flee fearing they might

 

Discover they were wrong, susceptible people follow

the crowd to ensure they don’t deviate from current

authority & stand out - if they were alive when Orville

and Wilbur Wright were trying out flying, they would

 

Have burned them at the stake for daring to suggest

flying is possible & while I flee crowd mentality, dear

Facebook keeps herding everybody: though Google

is my best friend and entertainment, I know that

 

Everything it presents is in need of context - let me

conclude: - Google and Facebook are my favourite

pests & best friends, for their classification system,

I hope to present myself as I wish to be seen -

 

An Epicurean Stoic or a Stoic Epicurean…

Leaving Them On Their Own Planet

I’m at an age where my friends are suffering from

Alzheimer’s and dementia, the only good thing is

that they are not suffering, happy in the confusion

& not knowing whether they are coming or going

 

And who I could be, one moment I’m recognised

as a friend and the very next I’m seen as a pest &

I’m working on making peace with the situation -

I still love everyone although I have to remember

 

Not to put my trust in them because then I end up

feeling disappointed all the time - my friends are

returning to the lovable state of a child, all delight,

but dangerous with things like money and keys

 

And heartstrings - moods change unexpectedly

and I must be ready to face a stranger where a

friend has been - now I’m prepared - I’m getting

better at this - after yet another row - I’m letting

 

Go, respectfully leaving them on their own planet

in their own universe…