‘I have often pondered on the anomalies of ‘show business’, which is not really a business but a game played with all the petty deceits, subterfuges and bitcheries one would expect to find in a provincial amateur dramatics society.’
Quote of the Week
‘LA is a meat factory that grinds people into neat little packages. I don’t want to be a neat little package.’
from Instant Party : Musings, Memories and Minutiae by Alan Clayson
The Madness Of March
You never said you were easy
Or told us you were warm
Your cold shoulder is predictable
You say you don’t mean harm
Always, you whisper a promise
Of better days to come
Yet, through mock sinister breath
You’ll say, you’re not quite done
You teeter on the brink
Last dregs of passionate breeze
The want to push into spring
The need to pull back to freeze
Oh, mischief month of March
Your lips of blue shape a tale
That tell us Feb is the real foe
And you are no spring fail
You hold it back, like always
Won’t take that final bow
You strong arm, then stroke cool fingers
Along our fevered brow
So reluctant to lead us out
Of your darkest winter play
The curtain call is hesitant
You really want to stay
Okay, you are dynamic
But you’ve always been an upstart
Storms and snow and drama
You sing, just like a bard
Another ice show over
But now your encore calls
Come out March, come out
It’s time for your applause
Quote Of The Week
‘I was able to get up in the mornings and make the arrival of a new day sound like a party.’
Quote Of The Week
‘It (love) is always based upon some mutual requirement, or complementary need. The point is to concentrate on what you have got with anyone and not on what you haven’t.’
February Subterfuge
It’s that time again
When people send cards that aren’t signed again
And declare undying love in vain
It’s that time again
It’s that month again
When people tell you what to buy again
The flowers and chocolates and perfume drain
It’s that time again
It’s that place again
When people in pubs make you buy roses again
For that date you hardly know again
It’s that time again
Days of unrequited love will take its toll
Too much wine and stalking is bad for the indigestion
Don’t put too much stake in romance without reciprocity
I heard it’s bad for the complexion
It’s that hope again
Where people are thinking of sex again
And some of it, not just in the brain
It’s that time again
It’s deception again
When two people are apt to feign
The best known movies of John Wayne
It’s that time again
It’s that dream again
That Valentine’s Day of Insane
To get to the 15th without sprain
It’s that time again
Is this an insincere day
Or is this the romance of a century?
Maybe today, with you
I’ll find out for sure
Days of unrequited love will take its toll
Too much wine and stalking is bad for the indigestion
Don’t put too much stake in romance without reciprocity
I heard it’s bad for the complexion
Quote Of The Week
‘The blood jet is poetry, there is no stopping it.’
Quote Of The Week
‘Writing should be a gift, to oneself, to the reader, and to God.’
Quote Of The Week
‘The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.’
January Joy
There must be joy in January
There must be joy you know
There has to be love in winter
There must be fun in snow
There has to be joy in first month blues
Somewhere there is thrills
Kisses in the cold
Fire in icicles
There will be joy in January
As dark and as bleak as it seems
There have to be smiles in January
That toast down to our dreams
As we snuggle down in bed
After long short day of pain
Hope of burning embers
In drawn out schemes again
There is joy in January
I know it to be true
January tells the truth
It’s all that it can do
It won’t say, ‘Spring is near!’
‘Keep your eye on that April day!’
It will tell the truth
And say it is far away.
‘Love me, I’m one of the twelve!’
Says abandonment issues Jan
‘Don’t wish for me to go
I am what I am!’
Everyone negging on January
Wanting it to go
Shunning and shaming it
And hating on it so
So, let’s get on some January Joy
For the umpteenth time
Remember New Year Resolutions
We made at Auld Lang Syne
Maybe good can come from that
Positive action we can do
It doesn’t have to be a trial
That we always put ourselves through
Baby steps in the shallow end
No deep dives in the pool
January can be joyful
January can be cool.