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There is sweet perfection in her kiss,
and in her smile is every grace and art.
Every turn of philosophy leads to this,
mutual in our love, we share one heart.
There is not one word I would rather know
than the one sweet sound of my lover's name.
While this heart beats sometimes fast or slow,
it only beats for this eternal flame.
In my poor heart my lover reigns supreme,
whose tenderness has grafted onto me
A single will, fixed ...

The past few days have been horrendous at AAA with the cold temperatures. Friday we handled over 800 calls that day. I had been saving up the newspapers to skim over since Wednesday. Ruth gets most of her news online so she missed the entry Wednesday and I only read it last night. To great sadness.

Actor Patrick McGoohan passed away Tuesday, age 80. Another part of my childhood has gone into infinity.

A quick survey at work among the young ones disclosed their ...

My wife and I went to the movies to see Clint Eastwood, one of my all time favorite actors, in possibly his last movie, Gran Torino. Is it a great movie? I don’t know, but I did love it. The story is not all that original: hard edged geezer softens for someone not in his world. In this case the geezer is Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski and the people who he befriends are an Asian immigrant family who have become his neighbors. Kowalksi’s wife has recently died and slowly we learn that he ...

I’m walking past the Physics Loading Bay
at university
waiting for the sky to burst
with that muck-daubed candy-floss vista of grey
eye-locked with the sun.

You frown, prince of darkening cloud
big feet bouncing on a wall of sound
Hey! big guy in the middle
I can’t see your fine fired friend.

One flash and a rumble, tumble
out with that dog/cat shower…

Then you’ll shake off, zip up, and piss off ...

It is Sunday afternoon here and I have just come home for the beach. There was a surf life saving regatta on today, men, women and children of all ages competing in a triathlon.

Nothing to special about that – well apart from the fact that for the last month there has been a spate of shark sighting and attacks in the Illawarra. There were two attacks alone last week. Yet not one of these volunteers’ life savers hesitated for even a second to run into the water this morning sharks ...