'A Woman's "Yes"'

A womans 'yes' is Life
A woman's 'yes' is Love
A woman's 'yes'
. . is Life and Love
And what we're dreaming of.
January 29, 2012

'When I Came Upon the Gypsy'

When I came upon the gypsy
She was munching on a newt
She said she likes them screechy
(And I gulped.)
January 29, 2012

Set

1. "How's the World Treating You"
2. "You'll Never Walk Alone"
3. "Try Me Again"
4. "It Doesn't Matter Anymore"
5. "How Do You Speak to an Angel"
6. "Funny How Time Slips Away"
7. "Almost Persuaded"
8. "My Way"
9. "Dark End of the Street"
10. "Hallelujah"
11. "Makes No Sense" Terri Allard
12. "Crying"
13. "I Let My Mind Wander"
14. "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)"
15. "Four Strong Winds"
16. "Faithless Love"
17. "Your Song"
18. "Wild Horses"
19. "Change of Heart"
20. "Me and Paul"

'Like Some Sewer Rat'

Climb out of your vat of beer
Emerge like some sewer rat
It's facts and feelings you fear
But life really ain't like that.
January 25, 2012

'Life Came to Me'

Life came to me
From across the room
She saw that I was dying.

She asked me out
She bared her breast
She told me I was lying.
January 22, 2012

Demolishes Oxford

One True Bard?

Shakespeare Lost and Found: Evidence for William Stanley, Sixth Earl of Derby, as the Man Behind the Mask by John M. Rollett

Wherefrom Comes 'Shake-Speare'?

'thy countenance shakes spears'*

Gabriel Harvey in G. Harveil gratulationum Valdensium libri quatuourr (1578)--dedicated to the 17th Earl of Oxford (Edward de Vere)--in which Harvey tells him to throw away his feeble pen and prepare to defend his country.

*Translated as 'your glance shoots arrows' by Alan Nelson.

'Except, Of Course'

All of my friends are drug addicts
Drunken bums and crazies
Not a one of them normal
Except, of course
For me.
January 12, 2012