Poem

Heritage

Though on the day your hard blue eyes met mine

            I did not know I had a heart to keep,

All the dead women in my soul

            Stirred in their shrouded sleep.

There were strange pulses beating in my throat,

            I had no thought of love: I was a child:

But the dead lovers in my soul

            Awoke and flushed and smiled;

And it was years before I understood

            Why I had been so happy at your side

With the dead women in my soul

            Teaching me what to hide.

For it was not the springtime that had come,

            Only on strong flower thrusting through the snows,

But the dead women in my soul

            Knew all that summer knows.

Dorothea Mackellar, New Book of Australian Verse, 1986

yes, that's what i think too.

my knitted boyfriend' by noortje de keijzer



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yes, that's what i think too. 

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ILL
Jill.

Ah, topiary, how I miss you.

And that wonderful expanse of grass, carefully mown to 6mm tall.

Hopping Vampires

A jiangshi, also spelled chiang-shih in Wade-Giles, and also known as a Chinese "hopping" vampire or zombie, is a type of reanimated corpse in Chinese legends and folklore... It is typically depicted as a stiff corpse dressed in official garments from the Qing Dynasty, and it moves around by hopping, with its arms outstretched. It kills living creatures to absorb their qi, or "life force", usually at night, while in the day, it rests in a coffin or hides in dark places such as caves.^[1]  Wikipedia

 

You might like to check out this version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wiGkCtTEQI

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The Plague

Even if you've seen this 3 or 6 times before you should watch it again, now.

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v1133218y3s7ycjm?h1=Father+Ted+-+S2E06+-+The+Plague 

What do these words suggest to you?  "Jack" "sleep walking" and "bollock naked"?