NOCTURNAL PLIGHT

 

I learned a valuable life lesson

And I’m not eager to repeat my plight

When I foolishly took a sleeping pill

And a laxative on the same night

BEING OVER THE HILL

 

I’ve always accepted the inevitability

Of one day being over the hill

What I didn’t expect was to pick up speed

On the other side of that hill

ENERGIZING

If it wasn’t for the stress

Which is a feature of my distress

And the resulting nervous energy

I wouldn’t have any energy

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