< my holiday wish for writers >

[rayheinrich]

Both Eliot and Auden, eh? Running around in your head; that's enough to do it.
Always liked Auden cause there wasn't anything he didn't try writing. That, and
because he was a left-winger like me.

"I've had those dreadful holidays,
they're overrated." ---

Nice descriptive details:
"home being unrelatable"
"its dare-I-disturb ways."


Those future generations... Cass is almost forgotten, Shakespeare's on his way,
but the dead parrot will live forever:

'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be!
'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace!
If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic
processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off
'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!!
THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!