Poem by Tweet : 'Juno and Co.'

A Nupe Ohm : Juno and Co.

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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24 October

A Nupe Ohm : Juno and Co.

In the play -
And pull -
Of the world,
'Twas ever
(And is ever)
Juno and Jupiter,
Hera and Zeus,
Bitching, bewitching,
Deceiving -
An we let them -
We mortals
With stuff of
Some vacant cave
On Crete

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 24, 2021

PS If one's on Crete, with the use of a hire-car, etc., maybe resist going to see Zeus' Cave, as - unless it's en route - one's time is better employed travelling elsewhere, whether it's Heraklion, Spinalonga, or even The Amari Valley.


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Stacks : An illustrated poem

Stacks : An illustrated poem

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6 May - 11 August

Stacks : An illustrated poem

For S. T. Saunders

pic.twitter.com/BGbOPya70a

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 11, 2020

Practice, or custom,
Names a time of year
(Maybe church time,
Or tangible on walks),
And makes memorials -
We erect cathedrals pic.twitter.com/xyXKf5t51J

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 11, 2020

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Mouth-music

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2017 (19 to 26 October)
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5 April

The film / book title says The End of The Affair... :

But shouldn't the characters spend at least 50% of the time with :

1. Whether it should be 'affair', or (italicized or not) 'affaire' ?

2. Which of the classic definitions of affair(e)s it meets, and, if so, why ?

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 6, 2018

Mouth-music


[For the Winter Solstice]


I stand, and
(Having teased
Other lips) quiver
Now, 'twixt these
And your tongue -
Till I explode
Ambrosian gouts,
Thick and warm,
To savour
Sweetly down


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Emma : I wonder. I wonder if everyone knew, all the time.

Jerry : Don't be silly. We were brilliant. Nobody knew. Who ever went to Kilburn in those days ? Just you and me.

Harold Pinter ~ Betrayal (1978) https://t.co/6ygXo8r4vV

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 9, 2018

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Pygmalion : The real creature

‘Pygmalion : The real creature’

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27 October

‘Pygmalion : The real creature’

(Genesis 1 : 27)

Pygmalion
Took a lovely
Woman (unnamed
By Ovid)
And made,
Of her,
An ivory
Statue :

No, not a woman
Without a name –
As sculptor’s
Naked muse –
But real,
Warm flesh
To ivory
Statue.


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Hercules Wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestes
by Rt Hon. Sir Frederic Leighton, PA

Ah, Pygmalion - #UCFF is just about to offer 'Pygmalion : The true creature' to the world...#OvidMetMaryShelley

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) October 28, 2017

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A Nupe Ohm : An Englishman in Cambridge

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20 May, Post-script added 28 May


An Englishman in Cambridge


When there are looks,
Or stares,
Of dread disapproval,

One wonders when,
Or where,
These people grew up -

Or failed
To grow up -
That it seems,

To them,
That blokes can't have
Long hair


© Belston Night Works 2016




Post-script:


On being a shit (Part I) :

I have
To bitch
(To them)
About her,
Having
To bitch
About me,
Bitching
About her
To them

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 28, 2016

On being a shit (Part II) :

When you stare
(From five feet),
It's not that
I'm far gone,
Insentient
To your blunt
Looking :
I'm just
Trying to pretend
You don't matter

— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 2, 2016

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Lunch on the moon?

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27 April

Lunch where?!

Moon and Sun, as for Francis,

They're in the same breath





For me, for a place to eat,

One is cool - literally -

And has coastal views

Peaked by a crisp crest,

Like a salad's crunch:

If you can catch it





Waiter! Could I have another?
Mine's floated off...





Rating: 4*, but no atmosphere





As to The Other Place

(Maybe Stratford-on-Avon's,

Or 'the one not mentioned' -

As with The Scottish Play),

Steaks 'from the grill'

Come burnt to cinders





Waiter! Could I have - instead -
The chicken Caeasar salad?





Rating: 2*, and stuffy in summer







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Economists in the Hen-House

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27 April

Economists in the Hen-House

John Stuart Mill
Was really quite a pill


Pilate said:
What is Truth?


Better that one man---?


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