Christmas does not just knock on the door,
but presses on the doorbell until you respond
and leaves messages for you on your answerphone
for you to respond to whoever you faintly connect with.
We can escape, to where the season of goodwill
has no reach. A true holiday, away from it all,
would be to stay in an Islamic country,
as long as you are comfortable with
their police state/human rights record.
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| Stork, Maguar stork, as created in 1914 by Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (1868 - 1944) |
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| 'Parakeets' as created in 1927 by Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (1868 - 1944) |
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| 'Heron in a Cage' as created in 1915 by Dutch artist Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, lest we forget a man who died in Auschwitz. |
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| Galah cockatoo. or Roseate cockatoo,, as presented in this lino cut style drawing by Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, this is one of many works rescued from the home of the ailing Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita by his pupil M. C. Escher and others immediately after the arrest of Mesquita, his wife and son by the Nazi invaders of Amsterdam. |
