Monday, 2 August 2021

PUT DOWN # 10

Put downs work the best

For deflecting unwanted attention

But try to be amusing

As this relieves the tension

“How did you get to be so beautiful?”

He may well declare

So just reply to him

“I must've been given your share” 

BELLA DONNA

 

I met the beautiful Daniela

When we shared her umbrella

Then we drank a little Stella

And I said I thought her bella

She said I was quite a fella

So I had my way with Daniela

 

If I saw her now I’d tell her

About the state of my old fella

That turned a funny shade of yella

And the STD clinic fella

Had to employ his own umbrella

After I had my way with Daniela

21st CENTURY NURSERY RHYMES # 403

 

Little Miss Muffet

Sat on a Tuffet

Why not on a chair?

The silly mare

Sunday, 1 August 2021

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – EACH DAWN I DIE (1939)

 

“Each Dawn I Die” is a Crime Drama, screenplay by Norman Reilly and Raine Warren Duff, from a Novel by Jerome Odlum and Directed by William Keighley.

In this prison classic, a top notch newspaper reporter Frank Ross (James Cagney) angers a corrupt District Attorney with political ambitions, and with Ross’s news stories implicating him in criminal activity he decides to frame Ross for manslaughter in order to silence him.

Although innocent, he is found guilty and is sent to jail but while his friends at the newspaper try to find out who framed him, Frank gets hardened by prison life and his optimism turns to bitterness and then he meets fellow-inmate 'Hood' Stacey (George Raft) and they decide to help each other.

This impressive crime drama also features: George Bancroft, Maxie Rosenbloom, Victor Jory, Emma Dunn, Stanley Ridges and John Wray.

VOICES RAGE IN MY HEAD

 

As I sit in the silence

Voices rage in my head

As it wrestles with my heart

Who should I trust?

The logic in my head

Or the love in my heart

I KNOW I’M GETTING OLD # 4

 

I know I’m getting old

In the most fundamental of ways

When children ask me

What it was like in the olden days

HUMEROUS HAIKU # 8

 

Rudyard Kipling once

Said, never look backwards, you

Will fall down the stair