Saturday, 24 December 2011

A Sarah Post.

Mademoiselle de Mill Lane declines even to talk to my blog these days, and hasn’t asked the obvious question: ‘Why Shu-Shu?’

Because it sounds Japanese to me, and I imagine her looking excellent encased in a kimono with her face painted white and a knitting needle stuck in her hair. I doubt she would agree.

And since I haven’t seen her since the day after Noah’s Ark ran aground, I thought the fact might be worth commemorating with a ditty.

My dear Lady Sarah
Now, should I compare her
To moonlight and rosebuds and stars?

Or would it be fairer
To say that she’s rarer
Than fairgrounds and fig trees on Mars?

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