first there's "can't-wait-for-it-to-happen"
then comes "it's-happening-but-it's-gonna-end-someday-sob-sniff"
then comes "am-not-getting-into-it-it-never-lasts"
then comes the winter.
The best laid plans o' mice and men gang aft agley. I think I'll go back to watching T.V.
Robert Burns.
ReplyDeleteRead the Steinbeck if you haven't already.
Cast a cold eye, to life, to death, horsemen pass by!
ReplyDelete~O
enjay : ah .didn't know it was Burns, Bertie keeps reciting it to Jeeves ...
ReplyDeletedid one better, bought a calvin-hobbes :)
~O : had this pinned to my cubicle-wall in mumbai but kinda forgot abt it until now ... strong medicine is yeats
boy yesbob,
ReplyDeletetheres no way I can defeat you. You seem to have mugged every goddamn poet's work...
Here's another one - On who's epitaph its written, "He's somewhere around here".
Guess whos?
No it is not Sukhwindar Singh Chaddha. Its someone else.
~O
Yesbob, I'm taking this if you don't mind... I came across that a few days ago... Heisenberg and his uncertainity principle... Hehe...
ReplyDeleteerr, who is this chaddha person ?
ReplyDeletegood one enjay , wuz going to say the same thing
ReplyDeletehey ~O, couldn't think of a more apt line than 'horseman ..'.tx
and i don't mug poems - too much effort involved .. :)
EnJay & Yesbob,
ReplyDeleteYou son of guns. Take another one (I will go on & on like this, till I win..he he)
"You should never negotiate in fear, but never fear to negotitate"
- who is the bugger who said this?
I bet yesbob with a wide repository of useless data he has got stored will know this.
~O
Would that be JFK? (Froogy, i swear I'll let you take the first shot next time :D)
ReplyDeleteDYK he's a Pulitzer winner?
En : hee, dinnae know this one, nor the pulitzer thing.
ReplyDelete~O : you overestimate
succubus : thanks!! and don't worry, there's spring too ...
ReplyDeleteMan, I sure empathise.
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