WARNING TO DRINKERS # 1

 New health warnings should be

On bottles and tins for us to see

Warnings clearly on display

That the consumption of alcohol may

Make you think, like as not

That you are whispering when you are not

PARENTAL WISDOM

 

I learned as a parent

Amid all the pressures

That brushing the hair

Of my little treasures

Is without doubt

One of life's great pleasures

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – CARRIE (1976)

 

“Carrie” is a horror classic, screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen, based on the Novel by Stephen King and Directed by Brian De Palma.

 

High school senior Carrie White (Sissy Spacek), is a shy, unworldly, and friendless teenage girl who has been sheltered from real life by her domineering, fanatically religious mother (Piper Laurie), while struggling in secret with the special telekinetic powers she possesses, a secret which she cannot divulge to her mother as she would consider it to be a gift from the devil.

The only adult authority figure who tries to help Carrie with her life is her Physical Education teacher, Miss Collins (Betty Buckley) but she is warned by the Principle not to get too involved.

After an incident of bullying by her classmates the culprits are banned from attending the Senior Prom and blame Carrie so they plan to exact their revenge on her by humiliating her in front of everyone at the Prom.

So will they succeed or will she unleash her telekinetic powers on them in a horrifying display of rage.

Amy Irving, William Katt, John Travolta, Nancy Allen and P.J. Soles play Carries classmates, good and bad, in what is possibly the best movie adaptation of a Stephen King novel.

DEAR JOHN

 

If John Prescott went to the circus

When the big top came to town

And there were twelve clowns in the ring

If he jumped in the ring joining the clowns

And started reciting Shakespeare to the audience

They would only see him as the thirteenth clown

I AM THE SMOKE

I am the smoke

That will simply float away

Drift away powerless to stop

There is a kind of beauty about me

Also there is danger in me

I am mercurial

I am thick like pea soup fog

Or thin and translucent like a veil

I have no purpose

I am only an after thought

I am the villain

A bi product of something useful

I am the smoke

TOP DOG

 

A fool in a high station, such as John Prescott

Is like a man on the top of a small hillock

Everything below appears small to him

And he appears small to everybody, the pillock

SILENT WISDOM

 

I learned that silent company

Will often suffice

And is often more healing

Than words of advice