My doctor likes playing small jokes
His ears wiggle and emit smoke.
It distracts us, the patients,
From mentioning ailments
I laugh so I almost choke.
When I go into his room
His eyes focus and then they zoom
He hopes he can see
Right inside me.
So I hum a beautiful tune.
Wandering through the galleries,
Sepia paintings of pines;
Pain came to the emptiness once my heart,
I sat picturing screaming Popes and babies.
Eastward, looking for fresh instruction,
My mind unpleated, like a pair of curtains
Hung out to dry in equinoxal gales.
The bells of Satan’s cell phone
Rang again, startling in this silence.
“You had your smear done yet?”
“It’s me, hinny”
“I’m having coffee here in Costa’s.”
Then I awoke, a man appeared.
How apposite, I need you, Ludwig!
I can’t fly my kite.In the Science Museum, the mirror cracked
And from it stars flew out,
Adorning cars and bicycles and buses.
The building gently fell into its own reflection.
People shot out like gasping rockets,
Illuminating the blankness,
Calling “Is today the day?.”
Pronunciation: /ˈblaðəskʌɪt/
chiefly North American
1.1[MASS NO Foolish talk; nonsense:politicians get away all the time with obscurantist blatherskite
Stan was outside polishing the brass doorstep.”My,these microfibre cloths are wonderful” he thought resentfully.Mary was out taking a load of stuff to the Oxfam Shop.Suddenly he heard a loud cry, then he felt a pair of hands fondling the top of his bald head.”Eeh, no rest for the wicked, even at 81,” he screamed.He staggered to his feet and rubbed his knees.”Just give me a hand”, he said, I’ll have to stretch my hamstrings.They tighten up so.”
“I’ll stretch them for you!” Annie whispered roguishly.Stan leant forward to touch his toes and she could not resist the temptation to give his bottom a hearty slap.”For Pete’s sake,Annie” he shouted faintly.”Someone might see that.””Don’t worry, there’s no-one around at this time of the day” she tittered.
“Oh,yes there is!”
It was Dave, the paramedic.He had been lying behind the wheelie bins, all three of them standing plaintively in the tiny front garden.”I’m an MI5 spy, and I’ve been reading your blog, Mr Brown.”
“I’m not called Brown”, said Stan nerdishly.”Refuses to accept reality,”Dave wrote in his little notepad with some blood he had taken from himself earlier,”Jesus Christ!”, said Stan.”Now,now,” said Dave,”that’s not your name.
“No my name is Tan,not Brown,you’ve been reading the wrong blog!” “Stan Tan!”
Dave appeared crestfallen,”Any chairs need mending today?”
“My what beautiful ears you have, sweetheart,” he said to Annie,
“They look like sea shells,” “Your eyes are like shallow pools in Lake Windermere during a thunderstorm.”Annie replied womanfully.”Are you still a transvestite?” she followed on incoherently.
“No,I had a mystical experience and now I’m a Zen Buddhist”
“How did that happen?” demanded Stan querulously.
“Well,I was knitting myself a Shetland lace sweater in pale blue mohair and I suddenly had the feeling that everything was interwoven.Going forward or backwards, sideways or straight ahead, it is all part of the warp and weft of life.””Mistakes don’t matter” he continued idly.”Oh,yes,they do,”Annie said pouting her full lips, cherry pink by courtesy of L’oreal of Paris and New York,lip balm by Yves St Laurent,peach foundation by Lancome also of Paris,toning smokey grey mascara by Max Factor,handbag Annie’s own,deep burgundy 70 denier tights by M&S,Grey pointed ballet slippers by Bally of Switzerland.[also available in black,red and teal].Raspberry lingerie by ,strangely,M&S.
“As I was saying..”
Dave dived back behind the wheelie bin.
Stan polished the brass and Annie disappeared in a puff of smoke.
It was Mary’s famous imitation of a bicycle bell that had alerted them to her imminent return from the Oxfam shop.
“Don’t they make bike bells any more? ” Dave wondered as he carried on reading the new life of Emily Dickinson”A loaded gun.” He had thought it was an army training manual, but hey, mistakes don’t matter! Or do they?
The Day the Rain Falls The lake is speckled with rain. Each dot an echo of the last. Swans pedal. My eyes are wet. Life is melting. I always do this. This is the way it always is. Kids jump in pudd…
Source: Some Poems
“Two tongues don’t add appetite”
“The end is slighter than a bird”
“So when is it in my hands?
Every culture has a collection of wise sayings that offer advice about how to live your life. These sayings are called “proverbs”
It’s good to know the really common English proverbs because you hear them come up in conversation all the time. Sometimes people say the entire proverb to give advice to a friend. More often, someone will say just part of a proverb like this:
You know what they say: when the going gets tough…
(Read #5 below to learn the rest of this proverb and what it means.)
Learning proverbs can also help you to understand the way that people in English-speaking cultures think about the world.
Proverbs can also give you good example sentences which you can memorize and use as models for building your own sentences.
This is a list of some of the most important and well-known English proverbs. Below each one, there’s a simple explanation.
The meanings of some of these phrases have shifted over the years, so a proverb might have originally had a different meaning than the one I explain.
When someone has done something bad to you, trying to get revenge will only make things worse.
Trying to convince people with ideas and words is more effective than trying to force people to do what you want.
Act the way that the people around you are acting. This phrase might come in handy when you’re traveling abroad notice that people do things differently than you’re used to.
You can get better service if you complain about something. If you wait patiently, no one’s going to help you.
Strong people don’t give up when they come across challenges. They just work harder.
How my heart sings 