January 31, 2011

When I'm ⅬⅩⅤ ♬

…Learn to work the saxaphone 
play just what you feel
drink Scotch whiskey all night long…
                                                         
-adopted from Steely Dan's "Deacon Blues"

1 comment:

  1. Thank you, kind friend.

    A rather personal reflection on this my ‘umpteenth’ birthday-

    Why is it people rarely know their bliss
    Until by loss or leaving, it is gone?

    Want nothing that they have, till, losing it.
    And, beckoned by illusion-ever on?

    Thus, I attempt to use my slender wit,
    Upon the pattern of my own affairs.
    And why I strain my senses to distill
    The last, faint flavor of each transient day,
    An active mind and spirit shall fulfill
    All thoughts, all quests, all feelings while they may.

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