Hi Bill,
Oddly enough, or not, some of that feeling was going through my mind.
Though the actual polkadots come dredged up from somewhere else,
older, either a 1950s movie - Cary Grant's neckerchief in To Catch A
Thief, I suspect - or a remembrance of one of Yayoi Kusama's
exhibitions. Both seen by moi in recent times.
I think one lot of blether has replaced another. It's slightly more
patrician, marginally(?) more bearable (well, sans budgies), but
ultimately not to be trusted, especially with rivers (because rivers
aren't shareholders, are they?).
Cheers,
Jill
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Jill Jones
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Couldn't help but read some of this through a political prism, Jill.
Post-Abbott, we may well be 'past the polka dot world' and empty
singing
mantras. Feeling well shot of the blather/blether certain recent
leaders
believed in and hope rivers have a chance to work again somehow.
Cheers,
Bill
On Wednesday, September 16, 2015, Jill Jones wrote:
> River
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> I think we’re past the polka-dot world
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> and things that sing willy-nilly.
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> I want to touch the beholden
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> and be beside your weather.
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> I want to hold your hand as though
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> that’s possible. I can’t pretend I don’t know
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> what’s possible or what’s personal.
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> Today it seems as though the rivers work.
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> So many of them, working in spite of us.
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> I can’t pretend those ideas can be laid
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> down with the blether someone believes.
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> I want to lie down with you
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