MIRROR TALKING
Volume 1
Poetry by Uncle John
MIRROR TALKING
Volume 1
Poetry by Uncle John
In a series of four emails, Bill Murray himself tells this story.
Uncle John´s edited version is here with his poetic comments
to Bill as he shares each part of his story.
"Hey John, thanks for emailing."
Bill also sent video with
him looking in the mirror, seeing the dog,
& watching the dog´s head turn as Bill kept turning.
This an innovative creative interactive writing experiment.
Mirror Talking
The Growl From The Great Beyond
Story by Bill Murray
Poetry by Uncle John
Bill Murray
"Have you ever looked in the mirror & NOT seen yourself?
Woke up earlier slept well then sat quietly
did some stretching, used the rumble roller and thought,
"OK another great day to scrub my teeth." And, hello!
Right in the mirror not the face I know so well, but a mutt.
I really don't care that he's not a pedigree, but...he is a dog.
What did the man say, a dog has taken my place, my face place.
This dog right here."
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Mirror talking why the scowl
Waiting for you to howl
With help from friends for sure
Hope you find what you’re looking for
"Just walk a mile in my paws.
There's a dog in my mirror!
A real dog where my face should be and always has been.
Weird thing, he looks kind of familiar, which is no comfort at all."
It´s like Groundhog Day only with a dog
You´ll find your way with no heartache
Dogs are super instinctive like the hog
Remember the darkness always yields to the daybreak
"The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
I remember my neighbor, Dr. Gerry, a veterinarian,
Totally qualified to respond to any canine emergency.
Dr. Gerry, wearing a ´Don't Lick Me I'm Allergic´ button
Pinned to his scrubs, hands me a business card."
You say your neighbor is legendary
What you need is a new way to see
Something more than veterinary
“Whatever I am” the mirror speaks to me
"Platinum Pet Premonitions. A pet psychic.
$99.99 seems reasonable for my desperate situation.
I pull up to the house & she's already waiting,
which scares me because I didn't call ahead.
She immediately asks “Is your dog living or dead?"
I answer with every dog´s name & f
ifty-five minutes latershe informs me that it´s $99.99 per minute.
What would you have said??"
Caution
No judgment here
She sees into the darkness
But sheds no light on your problem
The mirror speaks Caution
"So I turn to family, brother Brian arrives.
With him as my mirror, he looks back at me
& sees what was missing.
What I had been missing and couldn't see.
Yes, as a little kid, we had a dog named Peppy, a Border Collie,
who had one blue eye one brown eye and loved to chase cars.
Peppy was certainly peppy. She had a lot of energy!
She could play all day, with all nine of us &
still have time to work her herding skills on Fords and Chevys.
Peppy was gone. Now Brian tells me Peppy ended up happy
on a friend of my dad‘s farm somewhere in Wisconsin.
We were told she ran away or had to be put down, or something.
Whatever story was told is long-lost to memory.
They could have told us the truth.
I never got to say goodbye to Peppy. Until today.
It was Peppy I was seeing in the mirror.
After all these years, she came back to say goodbye to me...
and to let me say goodbye to her.
Maybe she liked me the best of all the kids.
W
e should never be horrified by what we see in the mirror.M
aybe never wish to be content what we see in the mirror"
Family comes through
What you are missing
Is what you can´t see
Searching for the source
Listen for the sound
One of your friends & fan Bill follow
The growl from the great beyond
Bill Murray´s movies include Lost In Translation, Groundhog Day,
Ghostbusters, Quick Change, What About Bob? Moonrise Kingdom,
The Jungle Book, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums
excerpted from
MIRROR TALKING
Poetry by Uncle John
including
Watching The Big Sky
When I Think About You
Magical Days
Poetry In Motion
Mirror Talking
When It Rains Fish
The Harmony
The Buzz & The Butterfly
All You Need Is Love
Photo by Mikaela Barrett
MIRROR TALKING
Volume 2
Poetry & Stories by Uncle John
Red Eye to Mars
by Uncle John
excerpt
"Do you think we'll have to go through customs when we get to Mars?" William Shatner asks,
He who looks like Santa Claus,
Many people remember him as the Captain of The USS Enterprise of
Star Trek
I look at his boarding pass
It's the same as mine, except his says "Orion" and mine "InSight"
It´s the only red eye flight to Mars leaving California on May 5th, I say.
On May 5th. I´m set to climb a thousand stairsteps in Colorado on Red Rocks.
“There´s a way we can go to Mars on the InSight and stay here”, the Captain says.
The BEAM!?!
"Space is the last frontier and we must go boldly where no man has gone
before,"
Star Trek's voice-over begins.
“Why are you going to Mars?” he asks.
I always had hope of traveling to space,
And find a new direction for the human race.
Well, we got together and made a plan
To find another planet with air water and land
And in one swift stroke find the solution
To
the cost of living with climate pollution
On behalf of Climate Solutions, the mission to go there is a perfect place
to study gravity.
If we could take all our carbon emissions, everything that affects climate
change
And put all that pollution in a BOX and send it to Mars,
It would create carbon dioxide in its atmosphere, giving air & water to the
planet and, finally, we can colonize it
as another home of sister Earth.
All we need is Love to
Learn and Work to live in harmony.
Six Months later
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