Yes, Doug, I'm an Allman Bros fan - and Dylan and Tom Waits - but
otherwise a jazz nut. Go figure. (My poetry taste is equally as
bewildering.)
Andrew
On 11 July 2012 23:08, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well, duh, I get it, Max, & neatly done.
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> And 'swing'? That's jazz, not heavy rock, although it still hath its own charms perhaps....(I'm an Allman Brothers type myself, but I guess they have some jazzy chops...).
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> Doug
> On 2012-07-09, at 7:42 PM, Max Richards wrote:
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>> Yeats Travestied
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>> [This is no country for late middle-aged men -
>> Lawrence Upton]
>>
>> 'This is no country for middle-aged men,
>> the young girls sneering at us,
>> as if we're only fit for middle-aged women.
>>
>> But why are those same middle-aged women
>> sneering at us also? those chooks?
>> can they read our minds? us middle-aged men!'
>>
>> *
>>
>> I speak as one long past middle-age,
>> expounding* Eliot Yeats Hardy
>> to youngsters who simply weren't ready.
>>
>> THEY weren't going to wear long pants
>> at the beach, let alone roll up the cuffs.
>> They took no walks in lost love's haunts.
>>
>> No, they were surfing, and snuggling in vans,
>> dancing under strobe lights under the influence,
>> and coolly changing partners.
>>
>> Snuggling, they'd say, the word's so fusty -
>> you can't know what it is to be lusty.
>>
>> In my next life I shall try being young,
>> having missed out first time round,
>> dreamy, bookish, in hiding.
>>
>> Once back in this world, I'll neglect
>> all dreams of art and intellect -
>> fiery sensual music is all I expect.
>>
>> But the young, I already detest their music,
>> Doesn't it frankly make YOU sick?
>>
>>
>> *I was an ex-Poundian
>>
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