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    From Arthur T.@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 29 18:38:00 2022
    It's just a song!

    Title: Where's the Joy?
    ttto: Men of Harlech (Woad, etc.)

    Where's the joy in growing older
    Hands and feet both getting colder
    If I were a little bolder
    I'd just up and die
    Friends and fam'ly getting fewer
    Body smells too much like sewer
    So I'm midst the others who're
    Waiting just to die

    Dying isn't easy
    'Less you aren't queasy
    There is work that only jerks
    Would pawn off on their heirs because it's cheesy
    So I go on, let life flow on
    Hoping all along I'll find my woe gone
    So, although, I know I'll grow drawn
    I will wait to die

    My lyrics copyright 2022 by Arthur Tansky. License granted for
    non-commercial, non-political archiving and performance as long as:
    1. copyright notice is maintained, and
    2. no money changes hands.

    --
    Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com

    Guessing a lyricist's opinions from his songs is as futile as
    guessing an author's opinions from his novels.

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  • From Arthur T.@21:1/5 to Gary McGath on Wed Jun 29 20:14:18 2022
    In Message-ID:<t9imki$1ilj0$1@dont-email.me>,
    Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:

    On 6/29/22 6:38 PM, Arthur T. wrote:
    It's just a song!

    Title: Where's the Joy?
    ttto: Men of Harlech (Woad, etc.)


    Desperately needs a rebuttal, or at least a different angle. Let's see:

    Very nice rebuttal. I wish I could write that fast.

    But one line didn't have the "expected" internal rhyme. What would
    you think of changing
    I won't line up with the cattle
    But will keep myself firm in the saddle
    to something like:
    I don't prattle. I don't rattle
    I will keep myself firm in the saddle

    --
    Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com

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  • From Lee Gold XP@21:1/5 to Arthur T. on Wed Jun 29 16:33:40 2022
    On 6/29/2022 3:38 PM, Arthur T. wrote:
    It's just a song!

    Title: Where's the Joy?
    ttto: Men of Harlech (Woad, etc.)


    So far I'm keeping Very Busy.

    My roleplaying game amateur press association A&E comes out once a month, deadline on the 21st of each month, 5 PM Pacific time.

    Xenofilkia games out every other month , deadline the 7th each odd month
    (so July 7th will be the deadline of Xeno #204).

    I send out a short personal zine to friends invited to to do Reply All
    each Monday keeping track of what I'm doing and observing on
    the news and on Facebook.

    I run a game once a month with computer bringing in my players
    from New York, Berkeley, and Hawaii, as well as a couple of locals.

    The Los Angeles Filkers Anonymous has a monthly filk session.
    (Not concerts. Old-fashioned circles. Sometimes Chaos.
    Sometimes Bardic.)

    I'm writing the third & last of the VALHALLA fiction books.
    The first two are for sale on Amazon and on Barnes & Noble
    as paperbacks or as electronic downloads.

    VALHALLA: Absent without Leave
    VALHALLA: into the Darkness

    These books are umm set in a heretical version of the Norse myths
    (the Marvel universe need not apply), in which our heroine decided
    that joining Valhalla to die at Ragnarok was silly so she went off to
    destroy the enemy instead. She ended up freeing Loki, which
    turned out to be useful, though she finds it unnerving when he
    giggles at her.

    The second book (as you may have guessed) confronts Fimbulwinter
    and other problems. And more help from Loki.

    The third book.... Well, it's up to 100,000 words or so. It'll probably
    end at 120,000 words the way first two did. Then I'll go back and
    rewrite it and polish it. Then I'll send it to the filker who's my
    editor, and then it'll get published.

    --Lee Gold (who hasn't noticed her hands getting colder, but does
    sometimes wear socks)

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  • From Gary McGath@21:1/5 to Arthur T. on Wed Jun 29 19:18:41 2022
    On 6/29/22 6:38 PM, Arthur T. wrote:
    It's just a song!

    Title: Where's the Joy?
    ttto: Men of Harlech (Woad, etc.)


    Desperately needs a rebuttal, or at least a different angle. Let's see:

    I have lived for seven decades
    But I don't depend on mech aids
    And I won't, like some old wreck, fade
    To passivity.
    I'm aware life has an ending
    And to time I must be bending
    But I will keep on contending
    With mortality.

    Let each day keep giving
    To the life I'm living.
    I'll keep on until I'm gone
    Even as the years grow less forgiving.
    I won't line up with the cattle
    But will keep myself firm in the saddle
    Till I fight my final battle,
    And at last I fall.



    --
    Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

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  • From Lee Gold XP@21:1/5 to Gary McGath on Wed Jun 29 17:12:54 2022
    On 6/29/2022 4:18 PM, Gary McGath wrote:
    Desperately needs a rebuttal, or at least a different angle. Let's see:

    May I print this?

    ==Lee

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  • From Gary McGath@21:1/5 to Lee Gold XP on Wed Jun 29 20:56:27 2022
    On 6/29/22 8:12 PM, Lee Gold XP wrote:
    On 6/29/2022 4:18 PM, Gary McGath wrote:
    Desperately needs a rebuttal, or at least a different angle. Let's see:

    May I print this?

    You may print it along with Arthur's song (which I assume is your
    intent). Please add this note: "I dashed this off, imperfections and
    all, in ten minutes after reading Arthur's verses and finding them too depressing."

    I'll leave the broken internal rhyme as is.


    --
    Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

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  • From Lee Gold XP@21:1/5 to Gary McGath on Wed Jun 29 17:17:36 2022
    On 6/29/2022 4:18 PM, Gary McGath wrote:
    I have lived for seven decades


    I plan to celebrate #80 in October.

    My parents both lived till their late 80s
    after having gone through considerably worse psychological
    or physical problems than I ever have had to cope with.

    --Lee

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  • From Lee Gold XP@21:1/5 to Gary McGath on Wed Jun 29 19:41:05 2022
    On 6/29/2022 5:56 PM, Gary McGath wrote:
    On 6/29/22 8:12 PM, Lee Gold XP wrote:
    On 6/29/2022 4:18 PM, Gary McGath wrote:
    Desperately needs a rebuttal, or at least a different angle. Let's see:

    May I print this?

    You may print it along with Arthur's song (which I assume is your
    intent). Please add this note: "I dashed this off, imperfections and
    all, in ten minutes after reading Arthur's verses and finding them too depressing."

    I'll leave the broken internal rhyme as is.


    Yes, I'll print it along with Arthur's song.
    And I'll add the note.

    --Lee

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