Here comes the Green Monstrosity

 Yes, the enormous garbage can is squeeking and squealing down the street and I am there to wave a thank you.

Went outside way before dawn to get rid of loads of unmentionables - tissues, envelopes, Sierra Club magazines (before bed last night I looked over two and they were awful) 

GIANT DIRECT was here very early - earlier than expected - and were out of a great many items.

Although today is Thursday I will not attend my Creative Writing Group at the Warminster Library. 

But what if I feel like writing something? 

Oh, I could write the ROBERTSONS a real letter!?

Way too lazy, no, tired, exhausted.

My breakfast: two eggs, a handful of green beans (Ellen eats em) and onto the entire egg thingee I sprinkled salt and pepper.

Our president Joe Biden has temporarily halted an AMTRAK train strike.

Scuse me. Upstairs I go to read THE GUEST LIST a choice of our library monthly book. Author is Lucy Foley.

A female character is named OE,,, something. I looked up the name and it is pronounced EEFA. Is that right?

WALK BEFORE DAWN

After tossing the garbage into the yellow plastic bin

I walked briskly down my street

Hello Bob, I said to Bob and Lulu, 

He mumbled something I didn't understand

I walked on and looked hungrily at each and every garbage can

- we of the green bodies and yellow tops

The beekeeper was throwing away the innards of a dishwasher

and I, RZD, have come upstairs to read.

But only after downing three Triscuits, nice and salty and tasty.

Thank you Wiki Darling

The Shredded Wheat Company began producing Triscuit in 1903 in Niagara Falls, New York.^[2] The name Triscuit is believed by some to have come from a combination of the words "electricity" and "biscuit".^[3] At least one early advertisement boasted that Triscuits were "Baked by Electricity,” claiming they were "the only food on the market prepared by this 1903 process."^[4] Each wafer measured 2.25 by 4 inches (5.7 cm × 10.2 cm), and remained that size for nearly twenty-one years. The ovens were then altered and the cracker size changed to 2-inch (51 mm) squares.^[2]

In 1928, the Shredded Wheat Company was purchased by Nabisco.^[5]

In 1935, producers began spraying the crackers with oil and adding salt. In 1984, additional flavor choices were introduced and the crackers were made crispier.

POEM: THE STREET WHERE I LIVE

THE STREET WHERE I LIVE

After my first cup of coffee

I went out to the Yellow Plastic Bin

to throw in envelopes, advertisements

disingenuous political ads, 

music blared from my living room speakers

"Gone daddy gone

gone away"

The white dog Kalie

with the beautiful face

barked "This is my street!"

"This is my street!"

Who am I to argue?

My mind, often addled, wonders

what other adults live on my street

I barely know them

Patrick the beekeeper who sends me

jars of Cowbell Honey, the Adams Family

with their fanciful arrangement of

flower beds and borders

Eric, shirtless, leading his dog

Charlie, which they pronounce Cholly

round these parts

And the late Charlie, my favorite,

who pitied me when I first moved in

a single woman he had a yen for

Did he try to steal a kiss? So long ago

I can't remember.

I plan to live here until I die.

Ask the question, they said on the Suicide Program

last night.

Are you thinking of killing yourself?

Dial 988, Dial 988.

Oh, I already have a plan and here is

what I will do.

Absolutely nothing. Nothing at all.

Just don't toss me in the Yellow Plastic Bin. 

,,,,

Clint Eastwood Jr is still alive at 92. Started off in Rawhide where he played Rowdy. 

All his films have great music. 

....

Elvira Madigan was reviewed by the late Roger Ebert, who had subtle things to say about the two lovers who made a suicide pact.

Called them selfish. 

Since I did see the film many years ago, I will always remember Mozart's Symphony 21 that dramatized the film.

Lay in bed reading with my CPAP on and more - SUICIDE PROGRAM on PBS

 As you know, I am strapped in and cannot leave my bed.

Finished the book THE WRIGHT BROTHERS by the late David McCullough. 

I was reaching for THE GUEST LIST by Lucy Foley but could not find it.

,,,,

The suicide program was excellent.

I learned a lot.

You are biding your time until the suicidal thoughts pass. IF they will pass.

Years ago, in the middle of the night, "John" came over to my house acutely suicidal.

Get in my car, I told him.

I walked him into Abington Hospital and told the crisis worker to stay with him.

Good luck, I said to him.

Turns out, they did a TERRIBLE JOB.

John had slit his throat and walked back home to Warminster. 

He is still alive, a talented man, who writes poetry. 

....

The Hemingway Family was also profiled, showing that in several cases suicide is genetic.

Or, it is a combination of all the good things, bad things, insults and traumas you have faced.

...

In one of our New Directions support groups, a man I will call Tom was fooling around and I told him to be quiet.

Later on, I found out he had killed himself.

Oftentimes, laughing is a way of hiding your true feelings.

There is a progression. Stress, what people expect of me, depression, impulsivity. Not everyone will take their own lives, but too many people do.

Dial 988 for help.

This was repeated over and over. 

....

In a moment I will take my LAB TESTS at Quest Diagnostics in Jenkintown PA. 

As an adult with Sarah's kidney inside, I wanna live a long and healthy life.

We saw a lost young coyote

 

On the way to WHOLE FOODS on York Road we saw a very strange sight.

A coyote, lost and afraid.

He did look emaciated.

Do not rescue him and put it in your car.

Call the SPCA.

Or Chris Mendell of Pennypack Trust. 

HOW TO EAT KIRKLAND UNSALTED NUTS

 

HOW TO EAT KIRKLAND UNSALTED NUTS

Lift up huge plastic bottle of nuts

from corner cupboard

stir with fingers

pour into favorite bowl

This time Helene's green compote dish

One by one lift each nut with your fingers

Chew with precision, do not stop

almonds, cashews, pistachios, pecans

Say "Alexa, play Bob Dylan" and on comes

Dylan - Bobby Zimmerman - and the late

Johnny Cash who played at Folsom Prison

Look quick! The hummingbird has come to

the feeder, the gorgeous resplendent male 

And I drink a sip of coffee

my second of the day

life is beautiful

kind and solicitous

with a dollop of horror.  

From the NY Times POETRY

 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

William Carlos Williams

According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring

a farmer was ploughing
his field
the whole pageantry

of the year was
awake tingling
with itself

sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings' wax

unsignificantly
off the coast
there was

a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning

....

And in the shelf in the Family Room, ie, basement, is the book PATERSON by William Carlos Williams, a physician, who would quickly type up poems before his next patient.

...

MY DINNER PLATE

A sweet sweet-potato, baked by sister Ellen

Heaping servings of liverwurst - say, LiverWURSHT - on Triscuits

Ahh, that was marvelous, a favorite word of the late Bill Cardinale

Chew as if it were baby food

Every mouthful a marvel

And then lie back in your winged easy chair

And snore. 

- Ruth Z Deming

Good day wildlife creatures

View from front of my house. And below, from the back. 

As we know, we are decimating the land of the deer. 

Hibiscus or Rose of Sharon in back yard. 

Scrubland, possibly like in the book series DUNE by Frank Herbert. I read much of the book while Mike and I were on our honeymoon in Toronto.

Who might this be?

In my back yard, I jazzed it up with car parts, which are still there. Was it Frank Bubeck who gave me big rocks for my garden? 

I do cherish these but they change in time. Water has immense power to split rock, as well as to drown people in hurricanes and cyclones. 

I remember when I was married and lived in Houston and many people were swimming and then suddenly they drowned. That really made an imprint on me. 

His white tail warns others to beware!

This is my new helper Michele. 

She and I went for a walk.

RZD above.

Bill of Willow Tree Service introduced himself and then began spraying for gypsy moths, which will end up damaging the entire tree. There were three tents. 

Keep on scrolling....

 GOOD BYE FOR NOW.