| || elite, woman, scenic, shrunk, music to (his) ears.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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7 comments:
I hear the m
elody, Owen. Looking forward to the poem.
The ashtray... by Wilco.
Getting a late start. Poem to follow.
Once you and I were part of the elite,
Now you stay awake and cry all night.
You're not the woman you used to be,
Back when we'd walk by the scenic sea.
You've changed in ways we wouldn't've thunk,
You haven't grown, instead you've shrunk.
You smoke, you vape, you do yourself harm,
In darkness you think it's a shot in the arm.
Come back to the music, to love, to me!
Come back to what you used to be!
Come back to the sun, come away from tears,
Come back to my whispers in your ears,
Come back.
It's an unusual torch song, isn't it? She's not physically absent but changed in such ways as to do herself harm & render her spiritually desolate. The third stanza & final two word refrain are truly haunting.
As for the jumble,it seems strangely literal. It reminds me of the man who could hold his liquor through all kinds of binges--through vodka jags, gin sprees, etc., but when it came to anything brewed from hops, he'd be too sick through his beers..
~ OMK
This was an unusual Jumble experience for me. I looked at the cartoon and immediately got the solution, without having looked at any of the four word clues or having solved any of them. I then worked on them, and got the last three without any problem, but had trouble with the first. Then started to read Owen's sad poem, and there was the first Jumble word in the first line--thanks, Owen. There sure are a lot of diverse characters in that Jumble cartoon, with lots of different outfits and hair dos. Creating these cartoons sure doesn't seem like a simple job, does it? And it's especially neat to see them in color.
Thanks for the link to the Wilco song, Owen. I didn't recognize the cartoon's "Shot in the Arm" song lyrics. Now that I've heard the full number & read the words, I see how it inspired your "Come back" poem.
It feels quite natural to go from hearing the song directly to a reading of your poem. The song offers her a possible reprieve, albeit a short-lived one. You plead for a full "rescue," a much tougher stance, but potentially lasting.
~ OMK
Thank you, Keith! I was just about to post about the connection between the Wilco song and my poem, but you've said it better than I was planning to!
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