patrick - ear-buds are those tiny earpieces on audio wires which trail
from people's ears down into their breast pocket wherein hides a sound
device called an iPod (or similar). I don't often use mine because i
have small ear channels which makes the lodgement of such things
difficult, but that day I was wearing them to avoid the constant loud
chatter of one gentlemen on the bus, one gnetleman of our party who
tells the same life-stories over and over and over again to various
people and keeps refering to his wife (kindly) who sits nearby but not
with him as if she was in a far distant space ... don't get me started
on him ...
Androo
On 31/05/07, Patrick Mc Manus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Andrew I am not sure what 'with blues in my ear-buds' means is/whatever
> Cheers slow Patrick
> I get the jazz ref maybe are ear buds ears??
>
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> Three sticks of incense lit before a Buddha
> and I'm making myself happy in a cave in China
> trailing a tourist bus full of colleagues
> teaching little to a few before
> eating something dead to please someone else
> absolving the driver of blame for the tortuous road
> and the Chinese peoples for the weather and
> wondering what the old poets who roamed here
> did before the steps were set in stone
> before the guides knew the entire history
> of each pine cone and snowcapped neighbour
> with blues in my ear-buds
> wondering what Li Bai would've thought
> of John Lee Hooker's mother "It's in him
> and it's got to come out" just like smoke
> from a cave on the side of Tai Bai mountain ...
>
>
> Still milking that trip.
>
>
> Andrew
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