He had an issue years ago About how could you ever know That what a Seer tells you is true: You need to know before you do. But then he fell in love with a white witch Who was convinced that daffodils are blue, He loved her like a parrot in a hutch, So much so that her ‘I’ became his too, He said, “Who’s left to say it isn’t such?” He wrote her a poignant love letter saying he’d do ‘Whate’re it takes to make it through to God and you’. She sent a letter asking him to find a goat And teach it how to imitate a motor boat And video it on the sea at Whitley Bay – He’s still trying to get a goat to float today. Focus by Andrew Tait
When driving home from the reptile centre in Blaydon, I was approaching a roundabout on the A188. Then suddenly a single piece of penne fell from the sky.
The Discipline of Do Easy is a short film written by William S. Burroughs and directed by Gus Van Sant. The film is an instructional video on how a calm manner is often the easiest way to deal with things – a ruling of Zen. We are introduced to a man called Colonel Southern Smith – of whose character is divulged throughout six of the nine minutes the movie. The audience is told of his obsession with the collection of Roman Coins he found under his cottage. His ambitions to write his memoirs, to collect photographs, object clippings and extensive notes. The film reads as those notes – on how to benefit from taking one’s time, how doing things in a deliberate manner is good for the soul. This feature then moves onto the man’s simple logistics, seeming satirical at times. How to wash the washstand glass and correctly pull up your zipper. Once these disciplines are learned the movie concludes you will be able to move with ease and speed. Before telling a short story in the last two minutes of how two-gun McGee was in a gunfight and how this practice had benefited him.
18.27 