Vivienne Eliot

Vivienne Eliot

The poet T.S.Eliot had a wife. Vivienne, an intelligent vivacious but very eccentric woman  was carted off to the lunatic asylum because she failed to answer the following oral question correctly in her assessment by two doctors. TS Eliot and his brother in law were complicit in having her incarcerated. They both signed the committal form.Vivienne's brother admitted many years later that TS Eliot and he had done the wrong thing.He had gained financially from her incarceration. He blamed T S Eliot for pressuring him into it.

Question: There was a greasy pole 10 yards high.A little brown monkey wanted to climb it. He climbed three yards in the day but slipped back two yards at night. How many days did it take to climb the pole?

If you are unable to give an  instant correct response to this question you had better hide under the bed when the van with two men in white coats arrive.

Recommended :Movie " Tom and Viv"



so sad about viv
her gift to tom got her thrown
in the loony bin

A Tanka Of Olive Oil

carpe diem


we grow olives here
they come with a difference
aussie advertising
irreverent crude funny
tis the cultural norm

Kathy's Waltz

 Carpe Diem


Haiku

it was always summer
saturday night and jazz
the road ahead seemed so long

OR

Tanka

it was always summer
saturday night and jazz
the road ahead seemed so long
now, i can already see the light
at the end of the tunnel

Companionship

carpe diem


comme  le jour et la nuit
she wanted companionship
he wanted love

For The Weekend

Suzanne Valadon

Renoir

Suzanne Valadon was a famous painter's model painted by Renoir and Toulouse  - Lautrec. She was not only a talented painter and a beauty of her day, but  the mother of Utrillo, also a famous painter.

actress and models
frowned on by the bourgeoisie
suzanne did not care
her life is written in books
no one remembers her critics

The Yowie is a mythical boogeyman who roams the  Australian Outback.There have been several eye witnesses  who swear on a stack of bibles that it is true (chuckles )....probably having just imbibed several dozen schooners at the local pub.