Ava, Shirley and The Fall of Eagles

Every other Monday
I talk to Rosy Fingered Dawn
Sort of an oracle
I guess.
Anyway
it helps me
sort things out
n there's plenty things
needing sorting out.
The sliding scale
makes that possible.
Thank you Mr. Freud.
Thank you Mr. Jung.
I'm still clinging to the raft.

Care-oh picked me up after Dawn
with the two hounds in tow.
Ava and Shirley
Ava and Shirley

The pups.
My pals.
No matter what life slings at you
it all goes into the rearview mirror
when you're with the pups.
They're a team.
Inseparable.
We all went to chez Care-oh
ate tuna casserole
with olives
played and watched
The Fall of Eagles.
Who doesn't love historical costume drama?
Who doesn't love low budget, BBC historical costume drama?
Ay Claudius!
The Fall of Eagles
Europe at the brink of the Great War
Foreign Ministers
Kaisers
Kings
Generals
Anarchists
n overarching arrogance and greed
Monarchy crumbles
blood irrigates fallow farmland.
Gotta re-read
The Guns of August.
Why did everybody think
it would last mere weeks?
Arrogance n greed
bellicose nationalism
rational / irrational paradox
the cult of the offensive
and then
"An iron vice has caught us all."
Hmmmm,
seems very familiar
very familiar.