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I Can Sit Neck-to-Neck in a Group But Can’t Dance the Shuffle by Myself? WTF?

There’s something ’bout a shuffleWhich gets me off my feetOff the seat I’m sitting onOff my sitting seat Attended, I, a blues clubBefore this covid struckDancing’s now been banned all roundBugger, WTF? Now settle down there Don my boyThe rules you mustn’t buckThey let us sit all all cozy-tight?No logic WTF? Don Matthews (frustrated)November 2020Continue reading “I Can Sit Neck-to-Neck in a Group But Can’t Dance the Shuffle by Myself? WTF?”

Glug Glug Gobble Gobble

Trump’s fallen down the kitchen sinkGlug glug glugFallen down the hole he hasDug dug dug Counting’s not finished…. What?…. Trump’s wobbling on the sink edgeWobble wobble wobbleQuick someone push this turkey inGobble gobble gobble Don MatthewsNovember 2020 Networks pulled the plug on his recent White House interview CNN’s Anderson Cooper was more direct: “That isContinue reading “Glug Glug Gobble Gobble”

Everyone is Mortal RIP Etta James

Etta James was an American blues singer who sang at the Montreux Jazz Festival many times during her career. She was Blues Artist of the Year on no less than fourteen occasions. She died after a long battle with leukemia on 20 January 2012, age 73 Everyone is mortalEveryone will dieEtta James has passed awayManyContinue reading “Everyone is Mortal RIP Etta James”