PORN STAR TIPPLE

 

I worked in a cocktail bar where

A porn star was a regular imbiber

And erotic film star Bambi’s favourite

Drink Was 7 Up in cider

MARITAL EXPECTATION

 

My wife kept hinting about the gift

She wanted for our anniversary

She said, “I want something shiny

That goes from 0 to 150

In about 3 seconds will do me”

And this was repeated in detail

As the anniversary neared

So, he bought her a bathroom scale

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931

 

“The Public Enemy” is a Crime Drama, Written by Kubec Glasmon, John Bright and Harvey F. Thew and Directed by William A. Wellman.

The movie is the story of best friends and fellow gangsters, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle (James Cagney and Edward Woods).

However their lives are frowned upon by Tom's straight laced brother, Mike (Donald Cook), and Matt's straight laced sister, Molly (Rita Flynn).

Nonetheless the hoodlums rise up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, from their teen-aged years into young adulthood, and have an increasingly lucrative life, bootlegging during the Prohibition era.

Tom in particular becomes more and more brazen in what he is willing to do, and becomes more violent against those who stand in his way, disagree with him or cross him, until a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war.

Also in the line up are Robert Emmett O'Connor as Paddy Ryan and Joan Blondell as Mamie.

The most famous scene is of course, Cagney smashing a grapefruit into the face Mae Clarke (Jean Harlow), but there is a lot more to this film than that.

ORACLES

 

Inspired by the Gods

In Classical Antiquity,

Oracles gave wise counsel

Prophetic predictions

Or precognition of the future

As they performed their Oracular

Form of divination

In temples to the Gods

HUMEROUS HAIKU # 9

 

My next-door neighbour,

The catholic converter,

Worships exhaust pipes

I RESISTED GETTING A MOBILE PHONE

I resisted getting a mobile phone for a long time

But I gave in and was told I’d never regret it

Now if I leave home without the thing, I panic

And I have to turn around to go back and get it

WHO LED THE ISRAELITES

 

Who led the Israelites?

On their collective toeses

Through the semi-permeable

Membrane? It was Osmoses