Paris is about attitude and the art of slow living, where nothing’s urgent and everything’s fine.
But if you’re in school, that’s not true. I just began a group project (gp), and to paraphrase William Shakespeare, the storm has come again! GPs are big affairs with slow moving parts, like conceptualization and collaboration - and all that happens before any actual work is done.
Some cultures treat deadlines like casual suggestions but I get absolutely hinky in the loom of deadlines - I pace, chew fingernails and fret.
The other day, a TA (teaching assistant) asked me if I was trying to “prove something.”
The French invented ‘laze faire.’ after all, but I’m American enough to have dismissively said,
“I’d like to prove I can complete the assignment on time.”
Let’s get poet-y..
A trial comes, like a cloud, so dark it should thunder
but there’s no bromide, offer of shelter or tent to mock the storm,
it’s for us - as strangers - to return results which opinion crowns fair.
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Let’s sing the blues:
O.K. I'll Play the Blues - Deanna Bogart
Emotions and Math - Margaret Glaspy
Preachin' Blues by Larkin Poe
Isolated tilapia
Disintegrating Utopia
Unparallel ambiopia, from the deserts of Ethiopia;
Depth of seas oceanography;
Please don't take no photographs of me;
Because I'm drowning and my stupidity;
While all that's left of me;
Is me and it's 10-year-old Twinkie ™;
That I purchased that Hinky Dinky ™;
And just why is the air so, stinky;
Cuz! I can annihilate this world with my pinky;
Consecrated consortium
7/8/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
A Con-man's way out
Only in cases of emergency
Like the fire axe behind the glass
Only this is more deadly
Way more sketchy
Die with the lie
A mark gets wise
Gets hip to the jive
Catches on
Smells the cheese getting stinky
Eyes shift as reality comes to light
Can't let them find out it's all a lie
Make a decision!
It's about to get hinky!
Confidence is gone and it's time to fly
Make like some titties and bounce
Only one way out!
The Toledo Panic Button!
Ate food at banky linky
But it tasted like stinky stinky
Threw up all over pinky kinky
Went home to slinky hinky
But the bed kept spinny linny
Minnie Minsky shops at Hinky Dinky
Her nephew on the farm Punky Spuky tried to milk a donkey
Other cousin Cindy Dingy loved chocolate Twinkies™
While at the zoo spunky, sticky, stinky monkey gives whiskey to the donkey
3/7/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©
Minnie Minsky shops at Hinky Dinky™,
Her daughter Cindy Dingy loves chocolate Twinkies™
3/7/20
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Sassa Magoola.
Farba Fa Foo-lah.
Bibbity Bobbity Boo.
Here is a story,
Believe it or not.
Hinky Dinky Parly and Voo.
I grew up on the craziest phrases,
Adults set them to classical music
And put them into Disney movies,
And no one died except Bambi’s mother,
But at least we did not see it.
Weirdly enough, adults kept their secrets to themselves.
Or shared them with adult friends back ‘in the day’.
Children were kept innocently unaware,
Most of the time.
Many adults of today do not have any friends,
so they share the worst kinds of troubles with their
children, explaining that they ‘are their best friends’.
Sassa Magoola.
Farba Fa Foo-lah.
I am giving free rides backward in time.
If you are ready to go, just get in my line.
Bibbity Bobbity Boo.
Hold up your inky stinky pinkie
Have a rinky dinky Twinkie
With your glass of clinking drinky
Speak distinctly and succinctly
Be sure to get it right.
Minke baleens swim or sinky
Shrinking little bobolinky
Tinky's kinky blinky winky
Hug your finky slinky binky
Then take me home tonight.
As you became out
of control, out of touch,
out of sight, out of
your own depth at last
I learned that altering
for hinky pathways
will impede me from
knowing a higher self; a
journey toward the within.
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