tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568759.post8212010940108590445..comments2023-04-15T11:04:57.924-05:00Comments on The Rat Squeaks: Lines by Willie The ShakeRon Southernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08604305014713612990noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568759.post-84069234140078383452010-02-24T17:53:30.980-06:002010-02-24T17:53:30.980-06:00I like the way you talk, lady! It makes me sound ...I like the way you talk, lady! It makes me sound so good.Ron Southernhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08604305014713612990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568759.post-36373814846232507592010-02-24T16:24:03.786-06:002010-02-24T16:24:03.786-06:00in Joni Mitchell's song, Talk To Me, she admit...in Joni Mitchell's song, Talk To Me, she admits to stealing a line from "Willie The Shake" and I stole it from her.Ron Southernhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08604305014713612990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568759.post-45856806581040833582010-02-24T13:52:21.287-06:002010-02-24T13:52:21.287-06:00Lines by Omar Khayyam via Edward Fitzgerald
'...Lines by Omar Khayyam via Edward Fitzgerald<br /><br /><i>'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days<br /> Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:<br /> Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,<br /> And one by one back in the Closet lays.<br /></i><br /><br /><br /><br />To save me messing around twice with the comment thingie - I like the poem above this one (All Lost Souls) - it's a far more literary version of Andy Warhol and his "15 mins." quote, same message more elegantly put. :-)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.com