Monday, December 12, 2022

Her Mother's Confession ... A Whale Of A Tale

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When I was at boarding school,
I also studied whales.
They taught natural history
and I liked it a lot.
Bu at that school,
we had to go a little too often
to mass.
We were always having to confess.
Sometimes we didn't know 
what to confess
and so we'd say
"I stole the snow."
 
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4 comments:

  1. Dearest Reader
    Please allow me the first comment.

    This page is dedicated to Sabrina Impacciatore,
    the Italian actress who portrayed THE MOTHER IMAGE
    In The White Lotus, Season Two.

    Sabrina's character was named "Valentina"
    and she was the director of the White Lotus Resort
    in Taormina, Sicily

    https://www.hbo.com/the-white-lotus/season-2

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    1. Why did you insist upon having the first comment
      on this page?

      Delete
    2. Because it was a matter of closure:

      It took me EXACTLY seven days to read
      Natalia Ginzburg's "Autobiography"
      and during the same seven days
      I consummated the equally intoxicating
      viewing of White Lotus, Season Two.

      According to my binary beliefs, the HBO 7-episode series
      and the Italian author's Family Lexicon gave me
      a stunning and overlapping insight into
      the country my four grandparents migrated from

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