dedalus Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 At day’s end, gently we are drawn into tides of pain and passionate desire, our voices pretending to be silence, like insistences of a moonlit mind, there, looking out the window, as I cooked my ass off while drinking with Li Po at the Yacht Club, Sunday night, 2 am, before liberty calls and memory prevails and we go slowly driving away .... Quote Drown your sorrows in drink, by all means, but the real sorrows can swim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatekeeper Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 At day's end, gently we are drawninto tides of pain and passionate desire, our voices pretending to be silence, like insistences of a moonlit mind, there, looking out the window, as I cooked my ass off while drinking with Li Po at the Yacht Club, Sunday night, 2 am, before liberty calls and memory prevails and we go slowly driving away .... HaaHaaHaa I've done these "anthologies". Haven't done one for a long time. Thanks for the laugh! Quote from the black desert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenlangur Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Love the unexpected but wonderfully incongruous linking of images and thoughts here: ... I cooked my ass offwhile drinking with Li Po at the Yacht Club, Sunday night, 2 am, Enjoyed this. :D Thank you. Quote goldenlangur Even a single enemy is too many and a thousand friends too few - Bhutanese saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lake Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 :D Such a clever, impromptus (is it? )write. All the titles are seamlessly linked together. Lake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonqueen Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 You've given me cause to smile, this morning and I needed it. Isn't it great we've given you such excellent material to work with? Very nice! Thanks. Tammi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyv Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 I'm smiling, too, Brendan, albeit worriedly. Do check in soon. Members are anxiously waiting word from you ... Tony Quote Here is a link to an index of my works on this site: tonyv's Member Archive topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dedalus Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 I'm grand, Tony, thanks ... but it was a big one! We were 5-600 km away from the epicentre but the room was rocking. The thing I hate about these things is that there is nothing you can do except wait for it to stop. This one went one for 3-4 minutes. I've lived through about 15 of these things and it never gets better. I still remember the Kobe quake back in 1995 when a pal of mine and his family ducked under the kitchen table and everything on the shelves came cascading down and the building shook like a rat in a terrier's mouth. The good thing is that the Japanese build for quakes with reinforcing rods within the concrete at 5 cm intervals, previously 10, and great big rubber balls in the basement. Generally, the modern buildings survive but the old houses come crashing down. Because there is nothing you can do apart from waiting things out it can be as scary as hell. Quote Drown your sorrows in drink, by all means, but the real sorrows can swim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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