Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag dedicated to his muse. Rhett
The Lovers’ Chronicle
Dear Muse,
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the night happenin’
hope illumined
why,
because
you believed
the circle
complete
we still can
“Yes,”
she smiles
what makes you
the only one
this, meant to be,
two halves of a whole
just bein’ with her is all
fulfill her wish
when breath passes
through your lips
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the night happenin’
hope illumined in the sails
of tomorrow’s stars
will glow on what remains
why
you believed
the light pressed,
reserved for you
the circle complete,
sigh,
“We still can.”
you seek out
the invisible
that fills
“Yes,”
she smiles
“What makes your happiness.”
the only one
stillness, without end,
hungry lover, why
“What makes you leave.”
her foresight is all
the rest, confusion
overwhelms
you, like you,
disappear
“Fulfill her wish.”
when breath passes
through your lips
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you are right
a tricky trail
at times you swear,
there is no light
at times you think,
what is the point
at times you wonder,
if the night will ever end
but then…
someone tells you
they will be there
if you need to talk
you recall a smile
and you dare
believe
hell of a thing, sorrow
some say you need it
in order to appreciate
beauty
not sure about that
i would like to have tried
but if you have it
you should
ever once in awhile,
touch it, take it out
and hold it
for if you try
to ignore it
it will eat you alive
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you wrote about hope
and that it goes on
but i god she is
a cold hearted bitch
oh i cannot deny, of her
i have caught a glimpse
in a sunrise,
‘neath a cotton dress,
in well written verse
but when you have not
been well loved nor
know how to love well
and it has been
so goddamn long since…
you tell me why hope
you tell me, why hope
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Today is the birthday of Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (a.k.a. Lagrenée the elder) (Paris 30 December 1724 – 19 June 1805 Paris); rococo painter. He won the Grand Prix de Rome for painting in 1749 and was elected a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1755. His younger brother Jean-Jacques Lagrenée (a.k.a. Lagrenée the younger) was also a painter.
Lagrenée’s notable career appointments included:
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- Court painter to Elizabeth, Empress of Russia.
- Director of the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg.
- Director of the French Academy in Rome.
- Professor-rector of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.
- Honorary director-curator of the Louvre museum.
In July 1804, Napoleon I conferred upon Lagrenée the rank of chevalier (Knight) of the Legion d’Honneur.
On Monday 10 July 1758, at the age of 33, Lagrenée married 16-year-old Anne-Agathe Isnard. Fifty-five years later, on 19 June 1805, Lagrenée’s death certificate recorded that they were still married.
Gallery
Mélancolie
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Pygmalion et Galatée, (1781).
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Death of the Dauphin, (1765).
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Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan, (1768)
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Death of the wife of Darius, (1785).
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Alcibiades on his Knees Before his Mistress
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Kipling in 1915
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And today is the birthday of Joseph Rudyard Kipling (Bombay; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936 London); journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling’s works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including “The Man Who Would Be King” (1888). His poems include “Mandalay” (1890), “Gunga Din” (1890), “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” (1919), “The White Man’s Burden” (1899), and “If—” (1910).
In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.
Verse
A fool there was and he made his prayer
(Even as you and I!)
To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair
We called her the woman who did not care),
But the fool he called her his lady fair
(Even as you and I!)
- The Vampire, Stanza 1.
And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
- The Betrothed, Stanza 25.
- And oft-times cometh our wise Lord God, master of every trade,
And tells them tales of His daily toil, of Edens newly made;
And they rise to their feet as He passes by, gentlemen unafraid.- Dedication, Stanza 5.
- I’ve taken my fun where I’ve found it;
I’ve rogued an’ I’ve ranged in my time.- The Ladies, Stanza I.
- An’ I learned about women from ‘er.
- The Ladies, ending line to Stanzas III, IV, and V.
- I’ve taken my fun where I’ve found it,
An’ now I must pay for my fun,
For the more you ‘ave known o’ the others
The less will you settle to one.- The Ladies, Stanza VII.
- For the colonel’s lady an’ Judy O’Grady,
Are sisters under their skins.- The Ladies, Stanza VIII.
For to admire an’ for to see,
For to be’old this world so wide—
It never done no good to me,
But I can’t drop it if I tried!
- For to Admire, Stanza 2.
Now I possess and am possessed of the land where I would be,
And the curve of half Earth’s generous breast shall soothe and ravish me!
- The Prairie, Stanza 5.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug…
Mac Tag
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