[Dixielandjazz] Isreal -- you did arsk!

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

On the achievement of ole cat-eye's friend eagle-eyed Steve, catching Marek's typo..and even more of the verse which amused Harry Callaghan and Phil Ladd, NUT (now up there).

ISREAL  (with no apologies to Johnny Carisi or Svengali*)
(*asterisk dedicated to Ken Mathieson)

What a lovely typo, and Steve's contentionthat Marek is actually his (Steve's) invention 
makes me hope that that won't make Marek disappear 
with consequent collapse in the sale of good beersuch as he'll often award a good mention.
I write limericks and other verse, some deeper,but alas I'm semi-immobilised and a sleeper 
as a victim of damnable Chronic Fatigue Syndromewhich keeps me and my trouble too much at home 
though the ivy around the house is the only creeper --
I play blues piano and also sing bass 
(I'm trained in the latter, not a disgrace!) 
like the birds on Bessie Smith's Black Mountain 
and am about two metres tall and can't refrain 
from saying that like the Eiger I've a north face 

but a fondness also for listening Deep South,where the garrulous are like'to hear "Shut yo' mouth!"and my age is I'll admit three score and a bit, 
started in Scotland, back here, appreciative of wit 
and a due delectation of what eases Marek's drouth; 

and I learned about jazz from Lord Voce and suchlike ears,
not to mention Eddie Lambert, the criticism which cheers,Albert McCarthy, and the extended Ellington romance 
associated by many with the "we" of Stanley Dance 
and other now drinkers of Ambrosia -- and more beers. 

Among other things I've done before 
I've been a reference book author and an editor 
of literary magazines and more 
and you can even pay to hear me on CD 
but as a reader of Scots Language poetry

I can't recall when I joined but thank you all 
without whom life could be less of a ball!
Robert R. Calder 





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