Monthly Archives: May 2009

Let Me Be The Cricket

    Ants   Summer’s here. The days are long and ripe for seekers of pleasure and pandemonium. Dionysus sells his fruits cheaply, offers you your own desires disguised as sage advice: Drink, eat and make merry. Play while the sun is still out. Have fun. It’s tempting, I tell you. Yet as I lift

Humanly

. The cello grunts, swallows its own weeping and then the cymbals, the chimes begin their bittersweet tinkling. Set the mood, my love, set the dinner table: would that this be the hour of our estate, would you fill me with the truth instead of tender fables, my lips against yours, my mouth overflows with

Fried Chillies & Feisty Chicks

. The ladies, they do, of course, spice up your life. With their smiles enchanting and their wiles beguiling, we are gladly snared in their soft and tender snatches, their slow swooning upon our big, strong arms (even if ours aren’t, not really). Women made of iron, of steel, sleek and shiny but never cold

The Return

. Edinburgh. Broadway. Stratford-upon-Avon. London. Bath. The Lake District. And back to Kuala Lumpur in about two weeks. My longest vacation in 2009 (thus far) and what a break it was from the ho-hum of my daily nine-to-five routine. (And just when I needed it, too.) Still, it’ll be awhile yet before I muster enough