Converting to Catholicism
Somerset Maugham
said every
man over
60 should
be allowed
access to
opium.I’m not
sure if
this was
before or
after he
converted to
Catholicism.
Category Archives: poems & short jabs
converting to catholicism
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career choice
Career Choice
Ansel Adams
opted for
Yosemite &
a camera
over a
career
as a
concert pianist
with all
its pomp
circumstance &
treachery.
Good for
the rest
of us.
Too bad
for the
music world.
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grandmother's house, 1942
Grandmother’s House, 1942
A wood stove
kerosene lamps
no telephone.
Then they
turned me
over to
the nuns.
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movie review
Movie Review
The man
of steel
reduced to
special effects
& computer
animation.
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movie option
Samson and Delilah by Rubens
Movie Option
Samson took
the castle
by storm
while the
king’s court
sat on
the rooftop
drinking tea &
watching him
thru binoculars.
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