Today, I was walking around Lake Nockamixon on some muddy trails in the warm, sticky humidity (I'm building up to "I was feverish") when an old memory came to my mind.
My older brother was in a school production of Oliver Twist when he was a youngster. Each day, he would rehearse his song as one of the poor orphans starving away in the sweatshop in the opening scene. Just before dinner time, he would bring the serving bowls with food to the table singing, "Food! Glorious Food!" I remember the school production was a smash hit, it was so well done, people talked about it for weeks and both my brothers and I sang it at dinner time for months. Someday, I'll ask my Mom what she thought of that.
Anyway, I started humming the song...thinking about Karen's pictures...
The main and nearly only road Karen's neighborhood is being widened - causing 20 minute trips to take 40 or more minutes.
If we live 'til eighty four
All we ever get are bar...rels!
Ev'ry day we say our prayer --
Will they change the orange glare?
Still we get the same old bar...rels!
There is not a stripe, not a rim can we find,
Can we beg, can we borrow, or cadge,
But there's nothing to stop us from getting a thrill
When we all close our eyes and imag...ine...
Karen tells me she thinks this orange cone dude is off the side of the road urinating. I think she has a workable hypothesis. :)
Hot asphalt and road blocks!
While we're full of moans
Cold, smelly old sweatsocks!
Deep holes and rough pavement joys!
What next is the question?
Highway drivers have it, boys --
Road con-gestion!
Cones, glorious cones!
We're anxious to film them.
Three snapshots a day --
Our favorite mayhem!
Sleeping on the job? Falling over drunk? A workcone's compensation case? We will never know...
Green, blackened or orange
Oh, cones,
Wonderful cones,
Marvelous cones,
Glorious cones...
Cones, glorious cones!
What is there more handsome?
Scraped, mangled or flattened --
Still worth a king's ransom
What is it we dream about?
What brings on a sigh?
Piled conies with stripes, about
Six feet high!
Karen thinks this cone got a lawnmower haircut. I hated to tell her it was a conetip lobotomy.
Neat stripes glow from headlights…
Just set up your flash
Do take pictures at nights
Strengthen the shutter finger!
In this interlude --
The cones,
Once again, cones
Fabulous cones,
Glorious cones...
Cones, glorious cones!
Don't care what they look like --
Burned!
Bent over!
Faded!
Get out the motor bike…
Just seeing our conic tat --
Our senses go reeling
One moment of knowing that
Or-ange feeling!
Karen says these dudes were waiting for a basketball - and that she should have got the backboard and net in the shot. I had to forgive her. As a newbie cone photographer, I'm sure she was simply too excited to properly frame the shot.
What wouldn't we give for
That extra bit more --
That's all that we live for
Why should we be fated to
Do nothing but drone
On cones,
Magical cones,
Wonderful cones!
Marvelous cones!
Fabulous cones!
Beautiful cones,
Glor-reee-ous… cones!
Thank you, photojournalist Karen for all of these pictures!
16 comments:
LOL That was hilarious. What a fun post. Wait til Karen sees this. :)
Ok, I'm going to start thinking of those orange cones in a whole new light. Still, I'm glad to avoid them (for the most part) this summer by taking online classes. If I happen to see any orange cone carnage, I'll send the pics your way.
the cone "taking care of business" along the side of the road was classic! oh my gosh the lyrics!! Iggy, you are in the wrong business indeed. I can definitely see a new line of work here creating a cone anime. every orange cone I see is now a friend (I need a life, LOL)
very cute entry!!
betty
Not fair! Not fair! Not fair! How am I going to get better, get over this ridiculous selective attention to cones that I now have?
But, I guess I'm not alone and in good company.
Thanks for the laugh this morning! =D
too funny. Thanks for the morning laugh!
You are too much Iggy! Anyone who can make road construction fun is ok in my book :-)
Love it! I've got cone overload now. I wonder how many other people have this cone fetish? Is there such a thing? If not, you invented it. :)
LOL this made me giggle.
*encourages Celticspirit to check out the section labelled Alien World to see how many Patient O (iggy) has infected with "Cone-fever"*
oh...this reminds me...I think I have a few more pix to upload to the I-Files....
LOL I loved your poems Iggy and I love the pictures during my travels this weekend I saw a cone laying down in a mud hole and I thought of you of course and thought that cone is passed out in the water lol...but sorry no pictures :o( hugssss
hahahahaha to dam funny...... you do know what you started dont you..... I cant go anywhere now without picking out orange traffic cones lmfao..... and I always smile and think of you.....you big old orange cone head lol
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Now when I see orange cones I will not just think of you, I will be singing--"cones, glorious cones!" in my head...or possibly out loud in the car--ROFL! That is so cool that you all sang and helped your brothers rehearse night after night. I love that! :):)
Great photos by Karen and loved your song! How very poetic! ;)
You're so cute!! Thanks for the smile today!
now look what you've done! it's stuck in my head now. i can't believe you actually came up with every verse, too! awesome.
EVERYtime I see orange cones, you're going to come to mind! That and squirrels. Did you write that song or did your friend? Its very creative!
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