Milk In A Jug (Monday 17th January 2021)

This card fell out of a folder I was going through this afternoon, and took me back to a time after I'd finished art college but before I moved to London to work for the BBC.

I was working in an antiquarian booksellers in a very lowly-paid and boring job in a large loft room, left on my own, and killing time amusing myself by writing spoof poems. This one, which remained uncollected and unpublished, came into being on 6 April 1973, on the shop typewriter (as long as they heard me typing I was left undisturbed - I also studied successfully for a JMB English A-level at the same time in that dark musty room).

At school I had particularly enjoyed the verses of Lewis Carroll, who made satirical pastiches of the popular Victorian poets of the time, many of whom I had been made to study and felt richly deserved such ridicule.

I began writing some myself that I described as 'anti-poems'. Later examples appeared quite frequently in little poetry press publications of the time and I won a handful of poetry competitions later in the seventies - but not with this one!

L.
Monday 17.1.2022 (1658 hr)

Blip #3571 (#3321 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2022 #009/265 + #007/100 Extras
Day #4315 (999 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2713 (#2553 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Pentax KS-1 (Blue) and Pentax HD P-DA 35mm F2.8 macro prime limited lens

Poetry series
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Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Canned Heat - World in a jug (recorded October–November 1967, Liberty Studios, Los Angeles CA)
The title of my masterpiece was a microcosmic downscaling of this original blues, from the album Boogie With Canned Heat. The phrase wasn't new however, having been used in 1923 by Bessie Smith in her Down Hearted Blues:
"I got the world in a jug, the stopper's in my hand,
I got the world in a jug, the stopper's in my hand,
I'm gonna hold it until you meet some of my demands"

One year ago:
Bedside Reading