POETIC LICENSES

 W hat's with that day, 11th Feb? Whitney Houston, Alexander McQueen and Sylvia Plath all had unfortunate demises on that day......a friend jumped from a 12th story high-rise on that day. in the early '70's......one of my oldest friends, Guy Bishop, died on that day.........Roger Vadim and Henry Hathaway, the great directors, also kicked the bucket on that day.........To me.....that day is "The Day Of Sadness".......My Mother received her multiple myeloma diagnosis on that day.....In 1956, I was in a terrible bicycle accident...yeah.....on 11 Feb.......and drove a car off a cliff...not intentionally.....on 11 Feb. of 1960, sliding from the icy pavement as our new DeSoto sedan bit the dust......

a page from an early novel 'attempt', when I was 22..........I'm considering incorporating a box of early scribbling into a chapter of a current undertaking of words.....after editing the pages' sophomoric styling.....

R eading some 14th Century Chaucer 'Tales'....lines 416-419...of the Parson's righteous, abstemiously parsimonius story.. from The Canterbury Tales... I remembered the S13 Project Runway 'Rainway Challenge' and some furry, flouncy, feathery, muddy, train-dragging getups from this Season of PR Allstars........The designers could have taken some rather Medieval advice from an early English writer, I think........(with a translation into today's 'English') My reading the old post-Normon Conquest 'Tale' was instigated by my having lingered over some memories of sitting next to Johnny Lowe, recently deceased, in a Chaucer Class during our Sophomore year at Vanderbilt.....after which, Johnny moved toward 18th-19th C. English and American Novels and I, to 17th C. Metaphysical Poetry and English Language Morphology and Linguistics .......before abandoning 'lined' paper for sketchpads, double-weight Medalist Photo Paper and spiral ring-tablets...