to match their shiny bottom worn worked in worked out gravy stained grey crease collecting pension collecting dark grey suit trousers
in grief and mourning
and
the women their ladies princesses dowagers to their politics sport their hats big and bold black brimmed and boastful feather bearing attention seekingly sharp
keenly calculated and funeral fit
and on the mark
to cover a daughter's head as if in dueling crowns
glamour is abroad dark and dying this glad good day in mourning every broach and every bead flaunted catches the winter's sun
as if to cut Innocence with its edge
as once it did
The music the dancing say it quick as some of us are dead
the sex do it more quickly
was so much fun
then
mournfully
Then comes war
These old white knights have long since left their field lances broken or retired are taken off to their beds wrapped only there not in flags but by their black clad armour clad women now with joules enough
and will enough they carry on the fight
Here stand soon to lay sad proud men with sticks not swords the waking the waiting ghosts of Alamein and Normandy Times reading called by bell
the godsons and grandsons of Mons and Passendale
the holders the earners of titles who lost friends
the long dying not the short dying the survivors of total war
That red hot hellish hot burning hot spotlighted skin lifting killing killing killing night sky
and the fog filled fume filled lung filling sand filled limb lifting hole filling killing killing killing day
Of poisoned memory
They were boys on those local slaughter fields then who witnessed murder with morals and there are boys now in our own dying days thousands of miles and a generation away
Eighteen
War is total for all who die
But now the dying is not shared
It is hidden and returns only embarrassed nailed down in flag draped cheap wooden boxes piece at a time which no one sees so no one cries
the old dead May dead speaker Lord Jack Weatherill born Bernard the tailor's boy is being remembered by the good and the great in years and failing numbers the boys of war on our own very shores
here is the ancient order not the new one
passing
Old Tory prime ministers aged and out of office Old Tory not New Labour The begotten without the begetters
The nu order and the no order were absent outside like old cold Jack himself when they slipped closed the abbey doors to sing of battles won as a new one was only just begun
Can I still be friends with my Muslim friend of the opposite sex?
I just want to know for sure because if so I just lost two dear friends one because he is about to get married and the other friend passed away (she was my mentor). I was hoping that I could still be friends with my Muslim friend just an occasional email but I am a single female and I do not think it is allowed. If it is not allowed I am so sad right now it's like a punch to my soul... i am kinda of lost right now. I hate losing good friends.
Best answer:
Answer by nmnf_43 Who would be stopping you? There aren't any rules to friendship unless you make them.
"Strongly influenced by found objects. The creation of this work is a direct response to form." Kelly-Anne Lees welded recycled steel
the real one: Heliocidaris tuberculata Brown sea urchin Echinometridae The brown sea urchin (Heliocidaris tuberculata) is commonly found on the coast from QLD to mid NSW. It is found attached to the rock substrate either singularly or in clusters in rock pools and crevices within the lower tidal zone. It has a circular test (hard outer covering) that is symmetrical on the radial axis. The test can reach 10cm in diameter while the primary spines range to 25mm and are oval in cross-section. Close to the test the spines are a dark red-orange colour but the colour becomes lighter and more evident towards the tips of the spines. General distribution: From Southern Queensland down to Ulladulla. Also found at Lord Howe Island and Kermandec Island. The brown sea urchin attaches itself to the rock substrate by very powerful tube feet, which are also used as its primary source of locomotion, although the spines can also be used. The tube feet extend from the testes through small pores that run in 5 sections across the test. H. tuberculata feeds by grazing on algae and other organic matter that it pulls of rock surfaces using 5 teeth which are arranged in a ring and are operated by retractor muscles. It is not possible to determine the sex of this species by looking at it. Fertilization occurs external to the animal through mass broadcast spawning of both eggs and sperm. The closest relative of the brown sea urchin is H. erthrogramma and the two species are thought to have diverged between 3 to 5 million years ago. www.anu.edu.au/BoZo/KioloaEcyclopaedia/metazoa/echinoderm...
