Imagine my surprise....... that Mariana Pasternak names herself as 'author.'

A WORD FROM ONE WRITER TO ONE OTHER.....

You, goat footed balloon woman
Without Cummings' mud luscious wonderful
Glee of interminable wit.



Pick axing along,
Pen chopping words into scolds.
Scribbling, bribbling,
Propped in a stuffed Moliere chair.

Wearing a smoke colored gossamer gown,
You bang out your own discontent.
Spidering around in a balloon sized life,
Your pen spins a web 'round the world.

Passersby see the pages.
They then move along.
In shoe footed cadence, they call---

"Goat author, pen scratcher, you, friend of no friend....

Close covers on dollars! Don't dwell to offend!"


--from Enjoying The Air All Around You
ajs

This dame gossiped a blat splat , hurtful to a lovely lady's personal life. 'Author' of The Best of Friends: Martha and Me, a tell- all about Martha Stewart, Mariana Pasternak is a cash register, coining in on someone else's dignity, using her penny sized brain and microscopic heart to spitload her words onto paper.

INTO AFRICA FOR MARTHA...........

Guide Marlon Du Toit and Martha shooting on safari.

On Animals of Africa's Loins....

This leopard dragged an impala into the crook of a tree - rather frightening. --- Martha

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Serpentine tension, whitening, tightening.
Gripping ballooned in pulsating red.

Racing and chasing, a breath torn with lightning.
Beating the drum on Africa Bled.

Its stone on the ground cradles slowing pulse, swallowed.
Eye of the cat spins white solid glaze.

The muscle of nature arches balance, life borrowed.
Beauty... not always measured in gaze.


ajs