Monday, 29 April 2013

Genius Groucho

William Burrough's Thanksgiving Prayer


His voice is Hypnotic and his mind is a Laser beam

Saturday, 27 April 2013

Aphrodite Betrayed

A lover's wish
Is deafened in the siren song
between those rusting pillars
and through that burning door
lie contours of a former frame
the blithely innocent
and the lame.

Sedimental ripples
that wash the wading few
calm like an ancient welcome
on cold oblivious sands
'experience comes with age'
sighs the disillusioned sage.

One heirroglyphic handshake
and a time honoured pact is sealed
gentle aphrodite, bathes in bitter streams,
and marble shoulders strain on lovers reins
your avuncular call
a virtous cliche
no longer reposed
in the alcove
in the hall.

Stephen O'Toole

1985


She walked arm in arm with the peacock


She was eccentirc, erudite, eloquent and completely her own person. She also wrote beautiful
haunting poetry. There is an honest integrity and a pensiveness that I love about her too.A great woman.