my life as a artist
testing times
Thursday 28th January 2010 9:53 PM
After the scintillating clarity of the recent snow and ice, I've found this last week's dullness rather testing, and after much examination have decided to award all the grey days grade A's. I was going to give them B+'s, but I felt that the sheer consistency of the sickly pallor of the joy-sucked fields, lying flat and listless under a tamazepan sky, merits full marks.
Yesterday afternoon, me and the birds, or the birds and I, the first sounds vulgar, the second pretentious, had a small ceremony in the garden to mark their achievements, a sort of grade A grey day graduation day. With a 2HB, or not 2HB, (that is the pun), I wrote 'nothing' on a rizla paper and put it on the bird-table, and while we waited for it to absorb the gift of damp, some of the finches chucked sunflower seeds over it. After a few minutes, when the rizla paper and seeds had become one, the long-tailed tits ate them and took them as offerings to the land of the weather gods, far away in the north, beyond the veil of darkness, somewhere near Easingwold.
That this dank marriage of seed and rizla should be consummated in the belly of a long-tailed tit should not surprise anyone familiar with bird-lore, nor that the bird was elected as our messenger, for the long-tailed tit is famously much more discreet than it's close relative the tell-tale tit, whose mother can't knit and whose father walks with a walking stick.
An hour or so after the ceremony, maybe in a fit of blushing pride, the sky became vaguely opalescent for a few minutes, and this morning it seems as though the grey days have declared a public holiday, because after five days of being really slack in the headwear department, the sun has finally put his hat on, and because it's the end of term, he's come out to play. Hip hip hip hooray!
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