"Summer time an' the livin' is easy,
Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high.
Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin',
So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry."
Porgy and Bess.
And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword.
Oscar Wilde
*warming up to fishy theme*
When thirsty grief in wine we steep
When healths and draughts go free
Fishes, that tipple in the deep
Know no such liberty
LOWELL
" In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
It perched for vespers nine;
While all the night, through fog-smoke white,
Glimmered the white moonshine."
"God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus! -
Why look'st thou so? - " With my cross-bow I shot the albatross."
"The sun now rose upon the right:
Out of the sea came he,
Still hid in mist, and on the left
Went down into the sea."
"And the good south wind still blew behind,
But no sweet bird did follow,
Nor any day for or play
Came to the mariners hollo!"
"AnD I had done a hellish thing,
And it would work 'em woe:
For all averred, I had killed the bird
That made the breeze to blow.
Ah, wretch" said they, the bird to slay,
That made the breeze to blow!"
"Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
The glorious sun uprist:
Then all averred, I had killed the bird
That brought the fog and mist.
'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,
That bring the fog and mist."
"Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,
'Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner)
"England [Great Britain] is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted passage, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons…A family with the wrong members in control."
Goerge Orwell.
"If you feed people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, '@!#$ you!'" Nikita Khrushchev 1964
"Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees."
Billie Holliday. 'Strange Fruit'
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden.
MILTON (Paradise Lost)
"Desparation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape." William S. Burroughs
"Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care;
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."
William Blake.
*wondering what the connection is - unless it's a sort of..er...word association thingy - Crap? Pissing? Bodily functions? Now...shall I choose 'tent' or 'pissin'?*
And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren.
WHITMAN
...alternatively...
I'd like to get you in my tent, tent, tent...
BONZOS (Dog Doo Dah, etc)
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