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Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas
Cos' turkeys just wanna hav fun
Turkeys are cool, turkeys are wicked
An every turkey has a Mum.
Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas,
Don't eat it, keep it alive,
It could be yu mate, an not on your plate
Say, Yo! Turkey I'm on your side !

I got lots of friends who are turkeys
An all of dem fear christmas time,
Dey wanna enjoy it, dey say humans destroyed it
An humans are out of dere mind,
Yeah, I got lots of friends who are turkeys
Dey all hav a right to a life,
Not to be caged up an genetically made up
By any farmer an his wife.

Turkeys just wanna play reggae
Turkeys just wanna hip-hop
Can yu imagine a nice young turkey saying,
'I cannot wait for de chop',
Turkeys like getting presents,
dey wanna watch christmas TV,
Turkeys hav brains an turkeys feel pain
In many ways like yu an me.

I once knew a turkey called........ Turkey
He said "Benji explain to me please,
Who put de turkey in christmas
An what happens to christmas trees?",
I said "I am not too sure turkey
But it's nothing to do wid Christ Mass
Humans get greedy an waste more dan need be
An business men mek loadsa cash'.

Be nice to yu turkey dis christmas
Invite dem indoors fe sum greens
Let dem eat cake an let dem partake
In a plate of organic grown beans,
Be nice to yu turkey dis christmas
An spare dem de cut of de knife,
Join Turkeys United an dey'll be delighted
An yu will mek new friends 'FOR LIFE'. :D

-- Benjamin Zephania

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Instructions on ... How to Cook A Husband.
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A good many husbands are utterly spoiled by mismanagement in cooking, and so are not tender and good. Some women keep them constantly in hot water; others let them freeze by their carelessness and indifference. Some keep them in a stew with irritating ways and words. Some wives keep them pickled, while others waste them shamefully. It cannot be supposed that any husband will be tender and good when so managed, but they are really delicious when prepared properly.

In selecting a husband, you should be guided by the silvery appearance as in buying a mackerel; not by the golden tint as if you wanted salmon. Do not go to the market for him as the best ones are always brought to the door. Be sure to select him yourself as tastes differ. It is far better to have none unless you will patiently learn how to cook him.

Of course, as preserving, kettle of the finest porcelain is best, but if you have nothing better than an earthenware pippin, it will do --- with care. Like crabs and lobsters, husbands are cooked alive. They sometimes fly out of the kettle and do so become burned and crusty on the edges, so it is wise to secure him in the kettle with a strong silken cord called Comfort, as the once-called Duty is apt to be weak. Make a clear, steady flame of love, warmth and cheerfulness. Set him as near this as seems to agree with him.

If he sputters, do not be anxious, for some husbands do this until they are quite done. Add a little sugar in the form of what confectioners call kisses, but use no pepper or vinegar on any account. Season to taste with spices, good humor and gaiety preferred, but seasoning must always be with great discretion and caution. Avoid sharpness in testing him for tenderness. Stir him gently, lest he lie too flat and close to the kettle and so become useless.

You cannot fail to know when he is done. If so treated, you will find him very digestible, agreeing with you perfectly; and he will keep as long as you choose, unless you become careless and slow the home fires to grow cold. Thus prepared, he will serve a lifetime of happiness!

-- The Yankee Kitchen Cookbook...Author unknown, early 1800's.

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Haha, that was wonderful Pip. Very entertaining, indeed!

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si enim pecunias aequari non placet, si ingenia omnium paria esse non possunt, iura certe paria debent esse eorum inter se, qui sunt cives in eadem re publica. (Cic. De Rep. 1.32.49)
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NO PEAS FOR THE WICKED
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Roger McGough, Liverpool poet

No peas for the wicked
No carrots for the damned
No parsnips for the naughty
O Lord we pray

No sprouts for the shameless
No cabbage for the shady
No lettuce for the lecherous
No way, no way

No potatoes for the deviants
No radish for the riff-raff
No spinach for the spineless
Lock them away

No beetroot for the boasters
No mange-tout for the mobsters
No corn-on-the-cob et cetera
(Shall we call it a day?)

:mrgreen: .......

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A tear and a thought to Blake Edwards, who recently died ....

Who's Blake Edwards? Well, without him, we wouldn't have had breakfast at Tiffanie's with the Pink Panther, or ....

blue river ...
wider than a mile ...
we're crossing you in style,
one day ....

dream-maker
you heart-breaker!
wherever you're going, we're going
your way ....

moon drifter
off to see the world ...
there's an awful lot of world
to see ...

we're after the same
rainbow's end,
my Huckleberry friend ...
blue river ...
and me ... :(

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CULTIVO UNA ROSA BLANCA
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José Martí
(tr. Pip Torok)

Cultivo una rosa blanca
En julio como en enero,
Para la amiga sincera
Que me da su mano franca.

Y para el cruel que me arranca
El corazón con que vivo,
Cardo ni ortiga cultivo,
Cultivo una rosa blanca.

--oOo--

I CULTIVATE A WHITE ROSE
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I cultivate a white rose
In July as in January
For the sincere friend
Who gives me her hand frankly.

And for the cruel person who tears out
the heart with which I live,
I cultivate neither nettles nor thorns:
I cultivate a white rose.

--oOo--

A Merry Christmas to all readers ...

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TICTOC
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e.e.cummings
1894-1962

(Late Poems: III #9
in 'Etcetera, the
Unpublished Poems of
E E Cummings' 1973)

there are so many tictoc
clocks everywhere telling people
what tictoc time it is for
tictic instance five toc minutes toc
past six tic

Spring is not regulated and does
not get out of order nor do
its hands a little jerking move
over numbers slowly

we do not
wind it up it has no weights
springs wheels inside of
its slender self no indeed dear
nothing of the kind.

(So,when kiss Spring comes
we'll kiss each kiss other on kiss the kiss
lips because tic clocks toc don't make
a toctic difference
to kisskiss you and to
kiss me)

--oOo--

A Happy and Harmonious Valentine to you all ......... :D

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A RING PRESENTED TO JULIA
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Robert Herrick
1591-1674

Julia, I bring
To thee this Ring.
Made for thy finger fit;
To shew by this,
That our love is
(Or sho'd be) like to it.

Close though it be,
The joynt is free:
So when Love's yoke is on,
It must not gall,
Or fret at all
With hard oppression.

But it must play
Still either way;
And be, too, such a yoke,
As not too wide,
To over-slide;
Or be so strait to choak.

So we, who beare,
The beame, must reare
Our selves to such a height:
As that the stay
Of either may
Create the burden light.

And as this round
Is no where found
To flaw, or else to sever:
So let our love
As endless prove;
And pure as Gold for ever.

--oOo--

A health to William and Catherine ....

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How lovely and appropriate.

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They came ....

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

-- Martin Niemoller

Dedicated to all who, having seen what is happening to Anna Toussaint and Rosie Gray, feel inclined to pass by on the other side of the road ...

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THE INVITATION
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Oriah Mountain Dreamer
1995

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon ....
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life's betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your
fingers and toes
without cautioning us to
be careful
be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithful
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand on the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
"Yes."

It doesn't interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after a night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.

Dedicated to everyone who is standing in this, the 16th Term, together with a hope that everyone who is able to vote, will use that vote.

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Yikes! A little dark as a kickoff to election season, don't you think?

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I'd love to be able to say those things to all those candidates of all elections in the real world that I have the right of vote in. Such plain, honest words that cut through the bs to the heart of character.

Thanks Pip!

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IF THE EARTH ...
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Steve Smith
("The Bloomsbury Book of Love Poems")

....................................If the Earth
.........................were only a few feet in diameter,
...................floating a few feet above a field somewhere,
.................people would come from everywhere to marvel
...............at it. People would walk around it, marvelling at its
.............big pools of water, its little pools and the water flowing
............between the pools. People would marvel at the bumps on
..........it, and the holes in it, and they would marvel at the very thin
.........layer of gas surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas.
.........The people would marvel at all the creatures walking around
........the surface of the ball, and at the creatures in the water. The
.........people would declare it as sacred because it was the only one,
..........and they would protect it so that it would not be hurt. The
.........ball would be the greatest wonder known, and people would
..........come to pray to it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know
.............beauty and to wonder how it could be. People would
...............love it, and defend it with their lives because they
................would somehow know that their lives, their own
...................roundness, could be nothing without it. If
........................the Earth were only a few feet in
......................................diameter.
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Nice, Pip. Thank you.

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