“A journey like this is no joke, you’ve no experience of this sort of thing, you need to have more important things on your mind than foolish games. You have to try and anticipate a hundred different things, otherwise you’ll suddenly find yourself in the shit without any money-and where you have no money you’ll have no friends either, even if you give a hundred lessons for nothing, and even if you write sonatas and spend every night fooling around from 10 till 12 instead of devoting your self to more important matters .”
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: WHAT’S IN A NAME!
WHAT’S IN A NAME!
My name is Rory Dylan Stephen.
On my Canadian Kennel Club Certificate of Registration my name is Rory of Arendale 2ND.
My father is Kozo’s Gunther.
My mother’s name is Ardendale’s Scottish Lass.
When I am serious trouble my name is RORY.
When I am in very serious trouble my name is RORY DYLAN STEPHEN!!!
Yet I have many other names some being;
Sweetie
Pumpkin
Poopy
Dylan (by mistake)
Snookums
The White Rocket
The White Terror
Naughty Puppy!
Ror
Big guy
I know these names are intended for me by the tone they are delivered. They are terms of endearment (even Rory Dylan Stephen) and that is good with me.
RKS Poetry Anthology: “Beat up a poet today”
Beat up a poet today
Butterflies embrace the sky
A God given sunny day and the soul flies high
If this grade 5 rhyme is poetry then certainly something has gone awry
Liquidate this trivial optimism
Viewed through a socially irrelevant mindless prism
Quash this verse
Place it in the next outgoing hearse
Revel in the grandmothers who sigh at the mention of shit and sewer
No reason to put the poet on a skewer
Instead, bombast the demeaning jingoism of the brewer
You complain that poetry is over the head of the masses
You are wrong it is meaningless and beneath them when always enveloped in a rosy hue
Why is there no discussion of sniffing glue or the paying of class dues
Beat up
And thrash the poets of the ivory tower
It’s time they awoke with a cold shower
With the millions that suffer waiting to see the way
While poets ignore the every day
Then let us level them to the floors
These vocabularian whores
Robert K. Stephen
RKS Literature: Letter from Mozart to Father 17October1777, Augsburg: How Mozart Deals with an Arrogant Ass
“A certain Pater Aemilian, an arrogant ass and a simpleton of his profession, was in an especially hearty mood. He kept on wanting to joke with my cousin, but she just made fun of him-finally when he was drunk (which didn’t take long), he started to talk about music. He sang a canon and I said never in my whole life heard a finer one. I said I’m sorry, I can’t join in as I’ve had no natural gift for intoning. That doesn’t matter he said. He started. I was the third voice, but I made up some very different words, for example. O you prick, lick my arse. He said to me: if only we could have spent longer together. I’d like to discuss the art of composition with you. Then the discussion would soon be over, I said Get lost.
RKS Literature: Letter from Leopold Mozart to His Son 14November1777, Salzburg: What’s Necessary in Paris
“You can’t spend the whole winter travelling; and if you plan to stay anywhere, it should be in large town with lots of people where there are hopes and opportunities of earning some money: and where is such a place to be found in the whole of this region?-apart from Paris- but life in Paris requires a completely different attitude to life, a different way of thinking, you have to be attentive and every day think of ways of earning money and exercise extreme politeness in order to ingratiate yourself with people of standing.”
RKS Literature: Lording it Like a Real Gentleman (Gogol)
“By and large he lorded it like a real gentleman, as they say in the provinces, married a pretty girl with a dowry of two hundred serfs and several thousand in cash. These funds were immediately lavished on a team of six truly excellent horses, gilt locks for the doors, a tame monkey for the house and a French butler. The young lady’s serfs together with two hundred of his own, were mortgaged for some business transaction. In brief, he was an exemplary landowner, a real paragon.”
Nikolai Gogol, “The Carriage”, 1836.
RKS Literature: Did I Really Lose My Nose (Gogol)
“My God, my God. What have I done to deserve this? If I’d lost an arm or a leg it wouldn’t be so bad. Even without ears things wouldn’t be pleasant, but it wouldn’t be the end of the world. A man without a nose, though, is God knows what, neither fish nor fowl. Just something to be thrown out of the window. If my nose had been lopped off during the war, a duel, at least I might have had some say in the matter. But to lose it for no reason at all and with nothing to show for it, not even a copeck. No, it’s absolutely impossible…it couldn’t have gone just like that! Never. Must have been a dream, or perhaps I drank some of that vodka I use for rubbing down my beard after shaving instead of water….”
Nikolai Gogol, “The Nose”, 1836.
RKS Literature: The Hurons’ Anger Breaks Montcalm’s Promise of Safe Passage for the Surrendering British
“More than two thousand raving savages broke from the forest at the signal and threw themselves across the fatal plain with instinctive alacrity. We shall not dwell on the revolting horrors that succeeded. Death was everywhere, and in his most terrific and disgusting aspects. Resistance only seemed to inflame the murderers, who inflicted their furious blows long after their victims were beyond the power of their resentment. The flow of blood might be likened to the outbreaking of a torrent; and as the natives became heated and maddened by the sight, many of them even kneeled to the earth, and drank freely, exultingly, hellishly of the crimson tide.”
James Fenimore Cooper, “The Last of the Mohicans”, 1826.
“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THEY STOLE MY STEPS AND MADE ME NUTSO
THEY STOLE MY STEPS AND MADE ME NUTSO
It is all this neutering that is causing interminable problems for everyone!
I can’t enjoy my long walks. We are averaging 8,000 steps a day. I can’t meet my friends both humans and dogs. I can’t puppy fight.
I can’t tear around the snow-covered backyard. That is about 2,000 steps a day. Avoid busting open the stitches.
Can’t get the underbelly wet as may create infection risk.
Where can my puppy energy be expended?
Running around the house and creating more trouble than usual.
Bob says I am temporarily nutso!
RKS Poetry Anthology: “Too many apples and grapes later”
Too many apples and grapes later
A gasp
Thunderous deafening roar
Burning acrid gas
Hot molten lava
Slides down the porcelain precipice
A sigh like the spring wind
And the disaster sucked down to the bowels of the earth
only
The warm human smell remains
Robert K. Stephen
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