tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-244918022024-03-13T03:40:31.484-07:00CRISPY FLOTILLAin a thousand waysRicky Garnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569noreply@blogger.comBlogger1359125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24491802.post-87193960190264554102020-02-03T22:40:00.001-08:002020-02-03T22:40:15.927-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jerry Lee Lewis once said:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee Drinking Wine </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">and I said: Pardon me? and he said </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">and I said: Huh?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">and he said: Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O...oh forget it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">And I said OK </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">and I went to the kitchen</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">and poured myself a refreshing glass</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">of cranberry spritzer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">And guess who was on the radio?<br />
Why, Perry Como.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;">And when my mother arrived at the fairground,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;">she was wearing a red white and blue skirt,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">a fairground, a hundred years </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">ago.</span></span></div>
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Ricky Garnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24491802.post-39436093050473035582019-12-14T06:21:00.001-08:002019-12-14T06:21:28.541-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ricky Garnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24491802.post-54815390048761756262019-12-14T06:17:00.000-08:002019-12-14T06:19:53.175-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Oh Dear, it has been so long ...<br />
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Ricky Garnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24491802.post-73486966108384570102018-12-08T04:30:00.001-08:002018-12-08T04:30:35.360-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This chair is not as old as it looks. You simply have to set your camera to 'manual', not knowing anything about manual settings, and take a picture of your chair. </div>
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Ricky Garnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24491802.post-5577286170648909302018-11-25T22:17:00.001-08:002018-11-25T22:17:48.361-08:00HERMES AMBASSADOR (found in any abandoned storage facility in Boise, Idaho)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">That nice little symbol that looks like a person aghast is an 'a' with an umlaut. </span><br />
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Ricky Garnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24491802.post-45784553089666394562018-11-15T06:24:00.000-08:002019-12-14T07:04:42.293-08:00AN AMERICAN BAND <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last night I dreamt that Mark Farner was </span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Little Mark Farner!” I said to him, </span></span><br />
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Ricky Garnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24491802.post-50803491974156805182018-11-13T04:22:00.002-08:002018-11-13T04:22:22.292-08:00PEPSI AS YOU FIND IT (in Siler City)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ricky Garnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24491802.post-69724527533378927732018-11-13T04:19:00.004-08:002018-11-14T04:28:14.296-08:00STEALING IS COOL (2018)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ricky Garnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24491802.post-56529968061210657092018-11-12T18:32:00.003-08:002018-11-14T04:29:20.683-08:00From WHO IS HE? (unreleased)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">that things have always been the same and that things </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">I added the window in a gesture of playfulness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">With a window, you can change things.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">All the great words like hops rice and best barley</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">and Beechwood and trademark and aging and</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">they’re hops. And all those stars and mountain</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">like a dollar bill from a hundred years ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">not be happy. Why</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">I wonder what was said while resting their heads upon the pillow?</span></div>
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Ricky Garnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24491802.post-58789261576268262162018-04-03T09:13:00.003-07:002018-11-14T04:37:46.918-08:00LET'S SIT OUTSIDE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange;">There’s a little toggle switch that you switch</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange;">from down to up (I think) and then you hear this tone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange;">It sounds like the tone you hear when your doctor is about to draw blood.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange;">When you are three years old and trying to look out the window but can’t.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange;">Also the sound you hear that protects you from other sounds: like someone </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange;">who says: “She doesn’t have much time left.” Or “the body was never found”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange;">even when it was. And then you hear the sound: somewhere between a hornet </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange;">and a honey bee. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange;">It’s also the sound of Rachmaninoff, the man with the large hands, who had</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange;">troubles in life, many troubles, but nice big hands that made him play things </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange;">that others simply could not play SO THERE he said in a manner of speaking. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange;">Rachmaninoff with a capital A. Hey. I shouldn’t forget the Minimoog in all this. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange;">Or the splendid EMS AKS “Suitcase” synthesizer or the ARP 2600 synthesizer </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange;">which sounds like it was named after a frisky dog and is a joke but I assure you </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange;">it was not. And were it not for Moog we wouldn’t have the beautiful sounds of </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: orange;">that was not at all wasty. Syd Barrett would never have heard Dark Side of the Moon, </span></span></div>
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Ricky Garnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24491802.post-45364636165044843012017-10-04T22:15:00.003-07:002018-11-14T04:31:42.009-08:00HELLO YOURSELF<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;">I spent several hours today trying to find recordings of old movie stars saying hello. It is much more difficult than you might think. After a while, I tried singers, but that was also difficult. I decided that perhaps if I broadened it to bankers and car mechanics and soda jerks and policemen and store clerks that it might be easier, but it wasn’t. I looked out in the street to see if there were any children playing, or perhaps a crossing guard, but no. I even considered traveling, perhaps abroad, but that would be an awful lot of work for all I really needed, which was a hello, and what if they said hello in French? Finally I gave up and went downstairs and turned on the tape recorder and just plain said HELLO myself. The next thing I heard was: <i>How are you? </i>And then, just around the corner, the moon.</span></span></div>
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Ricky Garnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24491802.post-56482306072298294062017-10-04T22:13:00.002-07:002018-11-14T04:32:48.484-08:00 A POEM ABOUT TUNISIA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #ead1dc; font-size: x-small;">* The language of Tunisia is known as “Tounsi.” Doesn’t that sound like the name of a teacup poodle? They are too small.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d9ead3;">I am guessing that was 1966. And I am almost certain she had no idea that someone would be looking at her in these lovely bright beautiful clothes and also smiling about how different the world was then and perhaps in a way how much more beautiful and sweet and foolish because now it is 2017 but in fact that is what happened just the other day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;">Louis was a handsome young man but his chin became pudgy. A crazy person tried to kill him with a knife but did not (because Louis wore thick clothes.) He cheated on Marie which was terrible but the good news is that he cheated on her with Madame de Pompadour, who was as great as she sounds and loved arty things and did good things for France they say.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;">Louis wasn’t a very good King and he lived a pretty long time and he liked to go to brothels and sigh.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;">Once I saw a painting of Louis and he was wearing armor coverlettes and he looked cool.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">When Louis died he died of smallpox which happened a lot those days and his heart was not cut out and put into a special coffer with gold and rubies like his father but his body was soaked in quicklime instead and buried in a small box. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; line-height: normal;"><i>Warning: quicklime sounds delicious but it’s really gross. Don’t eat it.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;">Louis didn’t do many good things for France, but there was the Seven Year War and Louis XVI and Versailles and wigs and brothels Marie and Madame Pompadour who I mentioned recently (see above.)</span></span></div>
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Ricky Garnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24491802.post-54038537596891610792017-07-02T04:18:00.004-07:002017-07-02T04:21:45.286-07:00THE LIFESAVER POEMS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">Think of all the money they saved</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">And think of all the lives they saved</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">by putting a hole in a life saver.</span><br />
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Ricky Garnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24491802.post-18217493015450566272017-05-09T21:27:00.002-07:002017-05-09T21:27:25.699-07:00TUESDAY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Every time I put on Guerlain cologne, which is both fancy and French, I think of the time that I stood outside a nightclub next to a woman quickly moved to the other side of the building. “I can’t stand that cologne that someone is wearing!” she said to her friend. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">That someone was me and I was her friend.</span></span></div>
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Ricky Garnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24491802.post-31088127126150048582017-02-20T06:31:00.002-08:002017-02-20T06:31:29.083-08:00THE INTERESTING LIFE OF FRANÇOIS SAGAN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Cambria; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Stole her name from Proust.</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Cambria; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Was expelled from the convent for “Deep lack of spirituality.”</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Cambria; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Was called “The charming little monster.”</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Cambria; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Wrote BONJOUR TRISTESSE at 18 about “a pleasure-driven 17 year old named Cécile.”</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Cambria; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Married a playboy and “would-be ceramicist.”</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Cambria; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Liked to spend time with Truman Capote.</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Cambria; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">And Ava Gardner.</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Cambria; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Crashed her Aston-Martin, coma.</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Cambria; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Got better and drove her Jaguar to Monte Carlo to gamble.</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Cambria; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41);"> Had an affair with Bernard Frank, </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">a married essayist obsessed with reading and eating.</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Cambria; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"> Had an affair with French Playboy editor Annick Geille.</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Cambria; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"> When police inspected her house, her dog Banko showed them her cocaine.</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Cambria; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"> Banko licked the cocaine. “He seems to like it,” the police said.</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Cambria; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41);"> Said: “</span><span style="font-kerning: none;">A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you."</span></span></li>
<li style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Cambria; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"> Wrote her own obituary:</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Appeared in 1954 with a slender novel, <i>Bonjour Tristesse, </i>which created a scandal worldwide. Her death, </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">after a life and a body of work that were equally pleasant and botched, was a scandal only for herself.</span></span></div>
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Ricky Garnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24491802.post-58330134940650429492017-01-23T21:28:00.002-08:002017-01-23T21:28:15.375-08:00A SIMPLE THOUGHT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">that we knew when we were</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">all those floral dresses and </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">and knitting needles</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">and cups of tea and</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">little stale cookies.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">I wish I could say</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">something more,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">but what more can </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">you say when they </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">are gone? I think</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">they are gone</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;">already</span>.</span></i></span></div>
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