Yearly Archives: 2010
i gave you my onlyness, give me your tomorrow
I have lost my voice. Yes, physically and metaphorically. What a tragic fate – there’s only one thing for it! Copious amounts of ice-cream and my favourite Vogues. (This cover is by Patrick Demarchelier who, incidentally, I love.)
blinded alike from sunshine and from rain
By the dusk curtains – ’twas a midnight charm
Impossible to melt as iced stream:
The lustrous salvers in the moonlight gleam;
Broad golden fringe upon the carpet lies.
It seemed he never, never could redeem
From such a steadfast spell his lady’s eyes;
So mused awhile, entoiled in woofed fantasies.
how to dress the misery in fit magnificence
At the mere touch of cold philosophy?
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull catalogue of common things.
Philosophy will clip an Angel’s wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine –
Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made
The tender-personed Lamia melt into a shade.
spread the news i’m on my way (oopah ooh yeah-yeah)
…all my blues have blown away (oopah ooh yeah-yeah).
rings on her fingers, bells on her toes
Up and out. Boom. It would be fine if I wasn’t having a bad face day. I need a miracle cure. Or just one of these – a rather fancy (and useful on days like these) headpiece, I’m sure you’ll agree:
a bottle, a broom, an old foreign tale
Busy, busy Saturday. Rainy too. And all I want to do is read my book. Sylvie had it all, didn’t she?
i’m all in a spin (move over, darling)
Up and out. Sleepy eyes. Oh, how I wish I could go flower picking instead…
cast your dancing spell my way, i promise to go under it
Bob Dylan by Richard Avedon. Enough said.
