This Was A Bad Idea

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It's a bad idea because "Come, Tell Me How You Live" makes me cry when I'm happy. But I was thinking about Arthur Evans, and that led to Wheeler, and that led to Woolley, and that led to Mallowan (who is really my favourite anyway), and then I ran straight into Agatha Christie and that poem I adore so much because it's the truth.

Just in case this is the last time I use the jordan tag, I want it to be happy.

I'll tell you everything I can
If you will listen well:
I met at erudite young man
A'sitting on a Tell.
"Who are you sir?" to him I said,
"For what is it you look?"
His answer trickled through my head
Like bloodstains through a book...

Come, Tell Me How You Live

I need to get this poem made into art and put on my wall. Or something. It's kind of long, but I can work on it.

Comments

[emmy-roo.livejournal.com]

How about embroidery? I could embroider it for you with a, say, Celtic-knot themed border. It's very long, though, so you might be best off choosing three or four stanzas and limiting it to them, or it will look unwieldy.

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I was thinking more along the lines of an illuminated manuscript...mostly because I love the whole poem and embroidering it would take me my whole life. ;)

(Remember how you were going to stop offering to do things. *pokes gently because, omg, I have the exact same problem!*)