Wednesday, 4 August 2021

MY WIFE AND I ARE BOTH

 

My wife and I are both

In our late 50s for sure

I’m fast approaching 59

And she’s just turned 64

OH HOW THEY ALL CRUELLY SCOFFED

 

Oh how they all cruelly scoffed

When I said that I would one day

Learn the secret of invisibility

If they could only see me now, eh

Tuesday, 3 August 2021

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – THE COTTON CLUB (1984)

 

“The Cotton Club” is a Crime Drama, Screenplay by Mario Puzo, William Kennedy and Francis Ford Coppola and Directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

The movie is centred around The Cotton Club in the late 1920s and early 30s Harlem, it’s a premium night club owned by Owney Madden (Bob Hoskins) and Frenchy Demange (Fred Gwynne),

Featuring the very best jazz musicians, singers and dancers and is frequented by the great and the good and the very not so good of the underworld.

A musician named Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere) begins working with mobsters to advance his career but falls in love with Vera Cicero (Diane Lane) the girlfriend of gangland kingpin Dutch Schultz (James Remar).

The film benefits from a fine and varied supporting cast including, Gregory Hines, Lonette McKee, Nicolas Cage, Allen Garfield, Laurence Fishburne and Maurice Hines.

THE ORACLES OF ANTIQUITY

 

The Oracles of antiquity,

Were portals to the Olympians

So, the Gods could speak

Directly to those in their dominions

HUMEROUS HAIKU # 10

 

On the bottom of

The sea it twitches? because

It’s a nervous wreck

I AM A REALLY TERRIBLE COOK

 

I am a really terrible cook

I’ve burnt everything so far

I’m definitely not Cordon Bleu

In fact I’m more Cordon Noir

21st CENTURY NURSERY RHYMES # 404

Four and twenty blackbirds

Baked in a crumble

Would that make Greggs

Customers grumble?