Who's heard Little Richard sing "Shake a Hand"?

Lolz Whoever put that together deserves something.

There will be one on Biden soon, he's a consummate master of the faux pas as well

I knew three great beauties in my life well enough top know they were at lest as much cursed by it as not .

One let her brain atrophy as all she needed arrived upon her suppliants backs.

Another simply felt it natural that she should cash in by marring for wealth. I don't know the fate of the third
All were relentlessly pursued. Everyone wants to own a beautiful woman. She is the fineness gift of success

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Here is what is entirely left out world wide in the appraisal of beautiful women.

All wealth isolates, the greater the wealth, the more it isolates.

If everyone has a dollar and I have a thousand, we don't live in the same world.
We don't share the same possibilities,

If most IQ's are under 120 and I finish high school at age 7
Who can I begin to talk to?

When most faces are handsome or pretty and I marry a radiant beauty
desired by all, who will befriend me, who could I ever truly trust?

Great wealth always isolates.

Understanding this we come to know that beautiful woman are among the loneliest people in the world.
Are among the most abused.

They must wear the mark of their isolation, they must show what separates them from their sisters every where they go. Almost Evey married woman they meet does a quick calculation and decides that this is competition they don't need.

And then she must deal with the spite of the envious who see none of her difficulties, but want her advantages.

Most forms of wealth offer some form of protection. A good mind most often will see trouble coming and cut it off. Money can hire good minds to protect itself.

Few curses bring calamity like being born with a beautiful face without much of a brain with which to protect yourself. Everyone wants you. everyone wants the best deal they can get.

"There is a sorrow at the heart of things."

This world claws and grabs at all that is desirable never to thereby become itself desirable..

We have established that wealth isolates. Oddly the flip side of the coin is that Wealth attracts.
But seldom are they who are attracted by wealth desirable companions.

So there she is!

A woman of inestimable beauty glowing like a light from heaven, but heaven has it's great heights that none can climb to protect it.

beauty has called them all to her and all want her, all have good uses to put her to.
But who could ever see past the depth of her eyes or the light that leaps to find her hair, put aside ones desire of her
"and say hello in there." "Hello."
John Prine.

When the mask that hides you is beauty, you remain hidden none the less.
As who wants to see past beauty to the one so held captive?

Lovers over look with ease a chipped tooth, find endearing a crooked smile, they see past the outer flaws to their beloved within and behind a smile made perfect
by seeing behind it.
Beauty always stands in need of protection. beauty can not defend it self from the armies of the desirous. Perhaps in the end all forms of wealth are just crosses we need to bear.

@George, this is for you:
The incredibly talented Robben Ford. A master, but because he doesn't play 'popular music' isn't given enough credit. I've see him a number of times in NY and once in Austin, and he is absolutely fantastic.



Here he is, playing the exact same guitar years earlier. Extraordinary phrasing and tone, an awesome player:

I like the Wallflowers, especially the first and second albums.
You can tell the apple didn't fall far from the tree with Jakob Dylan.

Music to warm ones heart.":O}

New and most welcomed by me.