The Prompt: Buyers, Beware? The year is 2214, and your computer’s dusty hard drive has just resurfaced at an antique store. Write a note to the curious buyer explaining what he or she will find there.
My Retablo, “Autobiography”
If you long for mystery,
poems, facts and history,
long perambulations
and wild exaggerations,
recipes and letters and
episodes of Homeland,
Elementary, Sherlock, Friends,
a blogging site that never ends,
Emails, Youtube, Facebook notes,
starts of novels, copied quotes,
OkCupid pictures of
possibilities for love,
notes from nice guys, threats from creeps,
notes from guys who play for keeps,
friends who only write when drunk,
chain e-mails, jokes and other junk,
two hundred drafts of my third book,
(each one different, have a look),
kids stories and their illustrations,
the Christmas plans of my relations,
photographs of my whole life—
its happiness and pain and strife—
some successes but also follies,
fireworks, insects, gardens, dollies,
travel snaps and friendly faces,
rooms at home or foreign places,
birds and children, beaches, skies,
the camera lens is true and wise
and not as given to fraud and lies
as writings filtered through the eyes
of one who feels the joys or pains
of what she witnesses, then deigns
to try to change her reader’s mind
to accord with the type or kind
of thoughts she carries deep inside:
pride’s cutting edge, love’s waning tide—
things lovely, funny, jarring, rare.
So read this hard drive if you dare,
but if you fear a life laid bare,
I have one word for you. Beware.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Ah, but did you not forget
Sherlock played by Jeremy Brett?
Or are you just much more attached
to dreamy Mister Cumberbatch?
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Hi Laura. Unfortunately, I never viewed Jeremy Brett in the role. Was he as quirky as Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, who plays Sherlock in “Elementary?”
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I think he is, though it is a period piece so the pacing is really different from the modernized versions. There is a lot more emphasis on disguise compared to the newer series(es?).
You might be interested in a post from yet another blog of mine collecting dust in the stacks of cyberspace:
I have a serious crime drama problem.
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That’s really superb! Really enjoyed reading! 🙂
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beautifully creative!
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Loved it!
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Wow! Wondefully beautiful. Enjoyed it.
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Loved it! that was some fantastic wordplay 😀
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Judy ~ this is great!
Would you mind if I share it as a ‘reblog’ at some point? (the same way I did with Bridgette White’s piece?)
~David
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Hi David. Glad you enjoyed it. If you share by giving a small excerpt and then direct them to my blog to read the rest, it would be fine. The reason is, I just submitted this poem as part of a chapbook that I submitted for a contest and although chances are, they wouldn’t consider this a multiple submission, I want to. be sure there are no complications. A coincidence that both you and I would discover it after all these years after its first posting, as I must admit I had forgotten it. That said, I’m honored that you want to reblog it.
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Judy, you’re more than welcome❣️
I prefer to post the text of the poems that I reblog in their entirety because of aesthetics – having a post with just a link in it doesn’t seem very post-worthy to me, if that makes sense…
but if you’re not opposed to me reblogging another piece of yours, I’d love to highlight your work at the Skeptic’s Kaddish – just let me know ❤
Much love,
David
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That would be fine if you post a link to the original, David and let me know which poem. This one was ill-timed as I had just entered the contest the day before.
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of course! that’s how I always do it – I always ask for permission, and I always put a link to the original!
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