Never Say Always

 

                                             NOW TODAY TOMORROW AND ALWAYS

A Very Short Song

Once, when I was young and true,

Someone left me sad-

Broke my brittle heart in two;

And that is very bad.

Love is for unlucky folk,

Love is but a curse.

Once there was a heart I broke;

And that, I think, is worse.

Dorothy Parker

A child in a curious phase
A man with sullen ways
Oh, I know very well how I got my name

You think you were my first love, but you're wrong
You were the only one

Holding firmly to the trunk, I took a step toward him, and then my knees bent and I jounced the limb. Finny, his balance gone, swung his head around to look at me for an instant with extreme interest, and then he tumbled sideways, broke through the little branches below and hit the bank with a sickening, unnatural thud.

                                                                                  White Trash Zero

                                                                                 Me - without clothes?

                                                                     Well, a nation turns its back and gags

Sight

 

 Before I got my eye put out,
I liked as well to see
As other creatures that have eyes,
And know no other way.

But were it told to me, to-day,
That I might have the sky
For mine, I tell you that my heart
Would split, for size of me.

The meadows mine, the mountains mine, —
All forests, stintless stars,
As much of noon as I could take
Between my finite eyes.

The motions of the dipping birds,
The lightning's jointed road,
For mine to look at when I liked, —
The news would strike me dead!

So safer, guess, with just my soul
Upon the window-pane
Where other creatures put their eyes,
Incautious of the sun.

Emily Dickinson

          Yes, I Am Blind

  My Mallory heart is sure to fail

       I'll never be anyone's Valentine now

All Our Yesterdays

 It was with great pleasure and surprise, Our Moz released a short video on New Year's eve.  He said to hell with 2020 and here's to Tomorrow. Mozza looked very fit and healthy. We haven't seen a trace of him for quite some time, so it was a nice ending to 2020. The sentiment of the message was well received.

I'm not much of a New Year's aficionado. To me it's just another day. Another check mark on the long slow march to the inevitable. Will things change much in the next 365 days. Who knows? Highly doubtful. The rich will keep getting richer. The poor will continue to be poor and shit upon. The shrinking to non existent middle class will continue on the path of the dodo bird and the passenger pigeon. 330,000 dead in the USA and millions worldwide because of a virus, will it end?  Hopefully. Man's brutality and contempt of his fellow man and animals will never end. The cycle continues, only the year will have a one at the end instead of a zero.

I heartily agree with Our Moz, "Here's to 'Tomorrow' ". One of my favorite songs of his.

How Dare The Robins Sing

When men and women hear
Who since they went to their account
Have settled with the year! --
Paid all that life had earned
In one consummate bill,
And now, what life or death can do
Is immaterial.
Insulting is the sun
To him whose mortal light
Beguiled of immortality
Bequeaths him to the night.
Extinct be every hum
In deference to him
Whose garden wrestles with the dew,
At daybreak overcome!

Emily Dickinson

An afternoon nostalgia

Television show

I remembered you....

Love's Loneliness

"Old fathers, great-grandfathers,
Rise as kindred should.
If ever lover's loneliness
Came where you stood,
Pray that Heaven protect us
That protect your blood.

The mountain throws a shadow,
Thin is the moon's horn;
What did we remember
Under the ragged thorn?
Dread has followed longing,
And our hearts are torn."

William Butler Yeats

One Generation Got Soul