Good bye Phyllis I Love You


This is not a happy day. We lost her today.
To quote Wordsworth, “but oh the difference to me”

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her right breast. It turned out to be a trick knee.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

If you ever see three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

I’m glad that beauty is only skin deep. Otherwise, I’d be rotten to the core.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

They say that housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?

Aim high, and you won’t shoot your foot off.

Be nice to your children because they will be the ones who will choose your rest home.

The reason there are no women football leagues is that 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

Photos of me don’t do me justice. They just look like me.

The best way to get rid of kitchen odors is to eat out.

Robert Redford once asked me out. I was in his room.

New Laws

Jackson’s Law of Lost Objects

Anything placed with the thought, “This is important I’ll put it here” will never be seen again.

Jackson’s Laws of Gravity

Anything dropped will always bounce, scoot, or roll into any opening it barely fits into or under.

Dropped objects can travel farther than Newton’s Laws predict.

The Grasses Poem

The air flows
there are musical notes,
the water flows,
there are birds who still sing
and will bring
babies in the spring.

There is coffee and a comfortable chair
and willow trees make me write
foolishly in this box
while wearing only socks

The grinding of the grain
The turning of the stone.
The water falls
The generator turns
the generator moves electrons
The fingers move over the keys
bringing these
leaves of the grasses
waving in the breeze

The turning of the words,
the words they look over
my shoulder at the page
at the blank page

put us there
they say
put us there on the page
with the grasses

david michael jackson

LEONARD COHEN Then and Now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRcOWghazHA
This next one is a real find. 1988 and the ladies, ah the ladies! Good ol’ Youtube, one of the best internet ideas and collector of our times. Ya gotta stop and wonder at the thing, this net. It kinda created itself like a big ol’ universe explosion and an idea like a “database” catches the stars and saves them for people of the far distant future who will study us. They will find this ancient thing called Google and they may be here reading these words. Hello people of the future. The next video you should take back to your time and play it for your beings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWgedFTeMEw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NZPrwgYe60

Leonard Cohen,
most of my heroes have
evaporated like my youth
not that they made promises
they couldn’t keep but
I guess I just got
bored
but Leonard
across the burning sands
I’m your man
I saw you in Nashvile in what, ’77?
now here I stand in 2012
and
I’m still your man
Leonard and his ladies are
my own personal angels.

david michael jackson editors@artvilla.com