Thought for the Day

[bcholmes]

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.

— "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", T.S. Eliot

Comments

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought that too, before a mermaid lost patience with my not listening and tackled me.

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

Are you sure she wasn't just after your peach?

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

Let us go then, you and I,
Where the evening is spread out across the sky
like a patient etherized upon a table