(Still funny, though. Ya gotta gimme that.)
The latest is that the ball joint in my right hip feels like cocaine-crazed alpine marmots are biting and clawing at it. (They’re vicious little animals, by the way — never show ’em your back.)
It sucks getting old. (Though, as my father used to say, “it beats the alternative.”)
Retail wasn’t an option. I’m pre-owned.
An elderly W. H. Auden once joked that his face looked like “a wedding cake that had been left out in the rain.”
Well, I’m hopefully not there quite yet, But, still … look at those crow’s feet!
I happened across this meme on my hard drive just the other day. I don’t know who made it (though I will cheerfully give credit here if the individual steps forward). [UPDATE — the creator is none other than Brian Whitmore. 🙂 ]
That is, of course, Charles Bukowski wearing a t-shirt with the face of the late, wonderful Matthias Kruger.
Matthias founded Newington Blue Press in Germany. It was a platform that gave so many independent creators an opportunity to see their work featured in beautifully rendered chapbooks devoted to Bukowski. (I was one of them.)
Matthias is known to have had an excellent sense of humor. I think the meme below would have made him smile.
If lovin’ you is wrong, then I don’t wanna to be right.
Sincerely,
Eric Robert Nolan
My BritBud Jaine asked me that after snapping this photo of a poet’s bust in her local park. She’s evidently suggesting that this is the impression that I leave with others? (Those English lasses are wisenheimers, I tell ya.)
Anyway, the poet in question is Honorat de Bueil de Racan. (Don’t ask me to pronounce that.) The bust is located at the Jardin des Prebendes park in France. (My buddy lives near there now.)
