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It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.
Jim Harrison (1937 - 2016) - The Road Home
First Bobo, a cocker spaniel,
I remember only from pictures.
He ran way before we moved
to Canada when I was four.
Second Kizzie, a cockapoo, Mom got
when the family moved to Texas.
I only saw her on holidays and such
as I stayed in Canada. She lived
long and was with the folks when they
retired to British Columbia and was
into her teens before they put her down.
Third Sadie, 3/4 Newfie - 1/4 Bernese,
a big black dog, with a big appetite
for apples from a special tree and
the socks our daughter, a toddler
cast off around the house.
I still chuckle remembering
the scattered remnants lining
the farm lane that spring.
She was over ten, and in pain
when we put her down.
Her ashes remain in an urn in the garage.
Fourth Rizzo, a fencejump cross of
Gordon Setter and Belgian Shepherd,
my wife and daughter got him from
a friend, while I was off on a canoe trip.
A headstrong dog who would take off after
a scent or car to return when he pleased.
On leash, he'd almost pull you off your feet.
With age, he grew territorial and
after the third biting incident, I took
him to the vet to be put down.
But she gave him to an older lady
with a fenced yard who put thirty
pounds on him and he lived to
fourteen or fifteen.
Fifth Hailey, who was five when
we got her from the shelter.
A Border Collie - Shepherd cross
and definitely our daughter's dog.
She'd bounce foxlike through the fields
and on evening beach walks, loved
to fetch sticks we'd toss into the waves.
She was over fifteen and failing when
we put her down, days before
our daughter's wedding.
No urn this time.
Sixth Xena, a Shepherd-Collie cross
and beyond doubt a princess
but more sweetheart than warrior.
She has the canine equivalent
of ADD and a bark first policy
when something new appears
and will retrieve sticks or balls
until your arm falls off .
At over eight, she's running strong.
Seventh, Sam, a mostly Shepherd mix,
she's our most 'rescue' rescue dog,
smart, loyal and obedient
a wantobe lap dog with a feral streak.
She responds in kind to aggressive
dogs and we muzzle her on walks.
Now five she'll be with us for a
good while to continue the tally.
We are surrounded by the beauty of this world in which we live,
which asks nothing of us - existing purely just to give.
A lonely blue planet set aside from all the rest,
which has to be absolutely, exquisitely the best.
A complex ecosystem only god could replicate,
to house a billion species which it must facilitate.
It’s majestically, enchantingly, hauntingly diverse,
a blessing in the main, but equally a curse.
Everything is finely balanced from sunset 'til sunrise,
where each day delivers something of a heavenly surprise.
A butterfly in spring, an icicle through cold,
so much natural beauty we constantly behold.
In fall, the coloured leaves systematically changing,
on a modifying landscape, forever rearranging.
We can only stop and count the simple blessings of our life,
and forget the trivial things which cause unwanted strife.
A PLAY ON WORDS – LIVE
The power failed on Thursday night.
I was left completely in the dark..
So I rang an ELECTRICIAN
To see WATT he could do
His response wasn’t very POSITIVE;
Because of the CURRENT crisis, he said
He’d decided he would go to EARTH
And stay OHM in INSULATION.
Though he still got LIGHT exercise daily
With a SHORT CIRCUIT round the park,
He said he couldn’t visit me;
The Covid rules wouldn’t allow it
He put up a strong RESISTANCE
Although I begged him to help,
He was following government GRIDLINES
And keeping his social distance.
I tried to PYLON the agony,
Pleading my old age in the MAIN,
But his answer was still in the NEGATIVE,
He said he would CONTACT me next year.
I’d have to do the job myself.
He was clearly in his ELEMENT
It wasn’t his VOLT, he insisted
He refused, so I RE-FUSED.
16th June 2021
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The Masked " You Might Know Me"
Made his in ring debut, Mangeged
by " Gone Tour Me" he challenged
Dale B. Finer. Out classed by Y.M.K.M.
Finer sucummed to a Grall Gamers
Bearhug .
In what's said to be
A world class series of
Manuvers,
"The World's Bestest Ever"
Ulster Besputin
Verses
"Moody" Belkez Butaev
Ended at 31:00 when
Butaev used a Cattlemen's Beal
To position Besputin for the
pin.
"Big Money Grip" Dax Dollbouis
Beat Lammy Loco via submittion
With the Casters Canyon Victory Roll
:57 .An Areana record.
The Bankday Brawler and Ghetto Suchi
Beat Tissey Tilmon and Fattey Frikston
In a tagteam encounter, Frikston
Was on the receiving end of a
Louisiana Jaw Jam(right cross)
And in the main event
Members of "The Roster"
"Los Natralous " Javolen Suet
And "Tangles" Tanna Simmers
Went head to head with
Gym. Guy Frankie and
Badboy Boston
The bout ended in a
No DQ when the referee
From und Sommers lyre
And Javolens magic flute
In the he ring.
This has been Kelp Seaworthy with
Kelp Seaworthy Reports.
Oh, come inside this head,
And see the buzzing brain,
Observe the urgent tread,
The product of much pain.
Inside this head you'll see
The Leader of the parts-
And, the seat of irony,
For it hasn't any smarts.
This brain controls the body,
At breakneck speed it does.
That's why it's rather spotty-
It's rash, well, just because.
Listen to its barking,
"The program to the fore!"
The time it's always marking,
"Rest not, for there is more!"
"Come on, you guys!
Enough's not enough!
You've rested eyes,
Now do your stuff!"
"And you, old heart,
We need more blood!
Oh, stomach part-
Digest this crud!"
"Move you arm!
There's more to do.
What's the harm
In being through?"
"And come on, leg,
Respond to the head.
I've ignored your beg
That you're half-dead!"
"Oh, speak dear tongue,
And move, Oh lips,
Give wind left lung,
Be still thou hips!"
"This I say
On behalf of all,
Doing more is the way
To fulfill the Call."
But the eyes became dull,
And the heart began to fail,
The spirit was almost null,
The head grew very pale.
Panic gripped the brain,
"New program to the fore!
Rest is in the main,
Before we are no more!"
But the program really seized,
And the fever really rose,
The nose really sneezed,
And the body really froze.
Now me, I'm just a toe,
But I'd really like to know:
Is there anything to show
For the pain we've had to sow?
More and more and more
Can never be enough,
For more will rob us poor
And leave us feeling rough.
Now if Christ be our Head,
Will He work us 'til we're dead,
While serving, just a dread,
Or give us rest instead?
The moral of the story
Is simple if you see:
Christ must get the glory,
Through grace comes victory!
"Atta Boy" Freeze Trended Ville
"Minced Meat" Pippen Musky
" The Kruel" Caul Musky
"The Team Playa" Kemp Caulspokin
"Big City" Carnival Emerson
With their manager
"Super Slurp" Sam Gaulpaccii
Of" The Famous Woodland Mascots"
To face
"The Godbout Orchestra"
"Mastro" Flutey Mozart
and
"Smooth" Lyric Cresento
With "Duellist" Mandelliin Promise
"More Money™ Rhinecarte Valise
And the
"Mississippi Hardhead" Zilltron Rilslentir
With
Glamourous Geometric
But in the main event
Friccov Van Daddies and "Ensign" Castle Dane Mercer
Will challenge
"Way Out" Boldhawk Driggs
Three falls
The opponents in the winning senerio
Will tag with his opponet
To determine the overtime result in
Case of a draw or countout.
The winning side to of the first fall
Determines the winner.
Making it actual three falls
Fourth determent match!
But how about this
What do you get when
You get an audience for a
Heel V. Heel match?
Fans delight featuring
The top heels in the sport!
The jeers will crossover when
When "Cranky" Kookez Dimpsey
Goes against
Cout Gogga Moogga
With "Bad,Bad" Anise Beeltrow
For the undetermined
Top Ranked Championship
It's undertermsned but carry slot
Of prestige and clot
One of these men
Will carry the trophy to
there destinated beginning.
Ladies and gentlemen
We present
A Saturday to remember
Pro's at there best!
The day’s activity is in stress’ cabinet, let dusk give us some revival
citizens of night life are so ready to give a good time
floods of music, muscled men protecting the different arenas
stopped at the border of one which seem to attract fun’s immigrants
a bold and majestic entrance showcases my suave
flashing goddesses in human form fall for the charm
reserved to mild drinking, knowingly attracts a watching bint
chatting, laughing and more wine, time speeds up its wheels
stepping in the main department to kill worry’s threats
lips licking, angle-eyed contacts and dancing fingers on the cup’s lid
the signals are clear for us to advance to the main show
at home and both so drunk, what’s next, we need not ratify
this private dance floor is less in activities and lesser sanity
she falls to bed so openly for me to freely browse
two must tangle for such satisfaction to produce its oil
the pleasure would be ill-gotten, so I do same without touching her.
I am quite the courteous gentleman
Not the kind who sends naughty lines;
Still, this pretty girl was winking, was I naïve?
Being a new guy in the neighborhood,
I waved; trying to be polite like Mom said I should.
It began with her offer, coffee in the main room
Ending with touches and flirting… the rise
Of my blood a seismic boom! Clothes ruffled
As my hands traveled along her skin,
Before I knew it, we were reeling on the floor.
I didn’t know her status; she didn’t wear a ring
But she seemed playful and thrilled to hear
My breath quaking. Then, the front door clicked;
A man swooned, “Honey, I’m home.”I froze
while posing behind a tall figurine. Rushing out that night,
the oldest couple from a distance pressed,
“Hey Miss, your black stockings are on your neck!”
Nina Parmenter's Make Me Actually LOL 2
Re-post 3/.04.2019
Can you remember? Any in the main.' Though its really so
Needed, like Los Angeles needed rain.' Rather than agendas.' Plans to make 'things so much better' normally
Human concocted..Dies the vision under the letter.' Just
Ink on parchment later paper, today ether.' Yet without
Good spirit.' They are just a mental bleather' either way
You might stand.? To left? To the right.? The flames of
Destrution roared away by day and by night.' And we all
Saw the harvest.' It was manifold charred black ruins.' Yet
The spotlight of media has moved.' To another feast of
Moral contention.? High words and conflict with many that
Reason..' There is rationale aplenty.' Anguished faces fill
Our screens.' While scheduled meetings and silver serviced
Dinners are arranged by maitre d's as the tables are changed' and their linen is laundered white and pristene.'
Yes all the vultures of cultures and of gains.' Are gathered close to where many victims are slain.' Yet There are Bodies of evidence.' And terms to live by,l.! its whats important ' we must understand.!! Theres action needed
Or many..Many innocents could die.! Again?? Then that theatre
Is over.' And another becokons, them come away ' i just see much
Promise of jam tomorrow.! Amidst much agony here today.'
yea tis history - that end gin shelled a mesh by mit Romney wailin
such below figurative belt mortar attack subterfuge and constant railin
per accusations hurled at barack Obama presidential campaign
lobbed like scud missile grenades from invisible hand no longer m palin
in comparison and hence moot point for republicans to gain
so this joe of a voter re-fused 2 bide time 2 prevent candidate from failin
app laud clinched 2nd term deserved and occupy white house seat a gain
intent i wanna talia 2 acknowledge salient tactics to boost usa now ailin
sasha bravado blasting and gunning futile fusillades
which questionable oppositional stealth indiscriminately fired pell mell
to discredit supreme commander in chief an exemplary persona in the main
such desperate toothless and nail biting tactics
replete with political retaliatory slanderous stockpile bombardment
but rather, he opts to build fracking rainbow coal bridges 2 somewhere
over the rainbow toward future with his omnipotent time tested girders
of righteousness and gravitas quite simple and plain
casting confidence that the democrats rank as the robust strongest train
eclipsing her livid burst of 15 minutes fame that briefly wax than wane!