COLD PRESS
- Gwen Beauregard
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- i wrote some books and gave away library. i like to think that every poem is a love poem. i believe that "No" is a full sentence. i used to collect old books and young cats. i don't like noisy people, places or things. my three favourite words: yes, please, thank you. my favourite punctuation mark is the colon: i have a beautiful cat, a bicycle, an old typewriter, and a ladle. these things make me happy.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
I once knew not one but two Stumblers who could actually write a whole sentence without making a single mistake in either grammar or syntax. :::
GCL favorite websites - StumbleUpon
Rated Mar 07 2008
Abandoning us to the barbarians
I guess a review of the dear departing is properly called an obituary.
So be it! "Death the Leveller," James Shirley called it:
Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.
One of our finest and most brilliant Stumblers, GCL (Gwen) has posted
this on her blog and is leaving:
Quote: "Dear Friends, I am releasing you from my list of Mutual Friends so
you do not end up with "ghosts" on your lists...It has been all my pleasure
to correspond with so many people from around the world and to have developed
a warm relationship with you who have responded so generously...With Spring
approaching, it is a time of new beginnings and old ends.'I have miles and miles
to go before I sleep' and I must get on with my work. I am going into SU rehab."
Gwen!
How dare you! Slithering away are you? Leaving the rest of us semi-normal Stumblers
to battle the encraoching tide of pimply youths, MySpace loonies, FaceBook click-
collectors, marketing spam bots, glittering angels, women in negligees riding unicorns
or sittinh on rocks in the moonlight, ageing Celts dressed in animal skins, and
assorted collections of pussies galore, fake romantics, nightmarish dreamers, porno
paparazzi, and fat bald 60s males using busty-leggy-scanty-blondie chicks as avatars.
Go on then! Run! Enjoy life! De-friend your old and new friends with heartless derision.
Abandon our world to odiferous lemurs and buggered begats.Let your cackles echo over the
windswept Canadian steppes. Let Quebec quiver. Let the wolves howl in your wake, and
the terriers throw up, and the yellow moon slide behind a black cloud.
Who cares. Who's even noticed. You'll be back.
"The garlands wither on your brow,
Then boast no more your mighty deeds!"
[From Death the Leveller,]
[IMAGE: Stolen from Gwen and mutilated by me. The Choice: Left SU, guarded by the sinister
lemur; right, the future, guarded by the shadow of doom. (The Tardis time machine of
Dr Who replaces GCL's phone-box-on-the-moon avatar.)]
- Thamus
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