“After our applause the next course was brought in. Actually it was not as grand as we expected, but it was so novel that everyone stared. It was a deep circular tray with the twelve signs of the Zodiac arranged around the edge. Over each of them the chef had placed some appropriate dainty suggestedContinue reading “RKS Literature: “Trimalchio’s Feast” : What’s on the Menu (Petronious)”
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RKS Literature: Letter from Mozart to Father 3July1778, Paris: Mozart Muses on Life and Death
“I feel comforted because I know that God, who orders everything for the best, however contrary it seems to us, wills it so; for I believe-and I won’t be persuaded otherwise-that no doctor, no individual, no misfortune, no accident can give a man his life or take it away, God alone can do that- onceContinue reading “RKS Literature: Letter from Mozart to Father 3July1778, Paris: Mozart Muses on Life and Death”
RKS Poetry Anthology: “Junkie of sorts”
Junkie of sorts Up the highway flows the citrus juice From Florida Anita Bryant The pusher Scores a hit And all are satisfied Except the Orange Bird Who weeps in lament For she can’t talk And Is forced to sing at gunpoint Robert K. Stephen
RKS Poetry Anthology: “Surfing the COVID Waves”
Surfing the COVID Waves The more the COVID waves surf the beach of life The more power and constraints placed on individual liberty In the name of public good! Elected representatives and top echelon medical bureaucrats now turned into sharks Dismembering and attacking those who fail to tow the party line Vilified like the sharksContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology: “Surfing the COVID Waves””
RKS Poetry Anthology: “Rin Tin Tin’s Revenge”
Rin Tin Tin’s Revenge Salivated madness Molar maliciousness Lunges at your neck Hungry claws tear your veins hot satanic fumes Muffle your screams The blood pumps steadily onto the pavement Licked up enthusiastically by man’s best friend At the moment rabid Robert K. Stephen
RKS Literature: Letter from Mozart to Father 9July1778, Paris: Dissolute Court Musicians and a Shamefully Intoxicated Haydn
“I couldn’t help laughing at your account of Haydn’s drunkenness, -if I’d been there, I’d certainly have whispered in his ear: ADLGASSER. But it’s a disgrace that such an able man should be rendered incapable of performing his duties and only have himself to blame for it-in a post that’s in God’s honour-when the archbishopContinue reading “RKS Literature: Letter from Mozart to Father 9July1778, Paris: Dissolute Court Musicians and a Shamefully Intoxicated Haydn”
RKS Literature: Letter from Leopold Mozart to His Son 4December1777, Salzburg: A True Friend is One of the World’s Greatest Wonders
“My son to find one man in a 1,000 who is your true friend for reasons other than self-interest is one of the greatest wonders of the world. Examine all who call themselves your friends or who make a show of friendship and you’ll find the reason why this is so. If they’re not motivatedContinue reading “RKS Literature: Letter from Leopold Mozart to His Son 4December1777, Salzburg: A True Friend is One of the World’s Greatest Wonders”
RKS Literature: Letter from Leopold Mozart to His Son 24November1777, Salzburg: No Money Then No Friends and No Credit
“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’llContinue reading “RKS Literature: Letter from Leopold Mozart to His Son 24November1777, Salzburg: No Money Then No Friends and No Credit”
“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 nameContinue reading ““Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: WHAT’S IN A NAME!”
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 inContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology: “Beat up a poet today””
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