I’m lucky. Really, guys, I’m lucky!
Can you boast of two collaborations with Tony Single without a break? I can! Collaborating with Tony is a great joy. An exceptional joy.
Because Tony is exceptional. Artist. Wastrel. A quantum of potential. Aha!
A fucking ideal. I can’t even believe that he’s real! Hey, Tony! Are you real?
Thank you, Tony… and let us go to the next collaboration? Please, please!
Lanterns shine too bright
and water drops too loud.
I’m a lonely knight
standing opposite the crowd.
Lances jut too pointy
at queens too busy quilting.
Quintains feel too jaunty
for serious windmill tilting.
The firmament gets bleak.
Clouds weave the decoy node.
Pinnacled rooks beak
apples on the patchwork road.
Full import and all portent,
or is this mere priestly babble?
Preaching safe from beside the war tent,
in unholy war they dabble.
A phthisical bishop spits blood
into cream roadside manure.
The left quintain falls with a thud
losing its air-headed allure.
The right quintain sprouts lambent wings
and a halo for a hero’s journey.
It can have my heart as I’ve no wish to depart,
to forswear my stratagems twisty turny.
But it’s zugzwang, and I’m too tired to prate.
God save my Queen! I U-turn at one fling,
and make public a smothered selfmate
for my despicable sterile King.
by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2015
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Wow, another fabulous collaboration! I have to wonder if you sleep, ha-ha! Keep going, very enjoyable, you and Sir Tony did a wonderful job!
Alice ♥
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Thank you, thank you my dear Alice! ❤
I'm happy that you liked! And I'm glad that you mentioned the chess line! Let's play? E2-E4?
Oh… Always forget… Playing cards are favorite in the Wonderland! But… Can we mix up?
Your sleepless Hatter ❤
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I don’t know how you two managed to keep up with each other. Tony, you need to write more!! Though your process is probably bad on the psyche. Mad man! Ha. You were probably one of those bards people horsed hundreds of miles to listen to in a previous life (if those exist).
Tia! How you manage to swim in all these pools…you could be an olympian. Olympian collaborator?
Another fantastic piece of art from the both of you.
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Michael, you are very kind. Thank you! And, yeah, I really do need to write more. Tati is outclassing me in every respect, so I have a lot to live up to! 😛
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Thank you, Michael ❤ ❤ ❤
I'm ready to swim in your warmly welcoming pools endlessly… an olympian?
No… A mermaid most likely. Where is the nearest Black Lake in your Otherworldly Wood?
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🙂 The demon thing will be seeing waters very soon. It’s no place for a shiny mermaid though. Plus, you might get eaten…I think the mermaids belong off the shores of forever…which we will also get to eventually.
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As the Mad Hatter I ask you ‘Why is a raven like a writing desk?’
As the Shiny Mermaid… ‘Why is a mite like a damselfly?’ ❤
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It’s in the ethereal air of course. They must breathe it similarly. Have you seen those damselfly eyes? Big time philosophy.
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Hee… hee… I know another answer! 😛
It’s a nymph!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymph_(biology)
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There it is! Our little meta-morphical swimmer!
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Exactly! What a hottie!
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Aaawww… truly, you are a gem, Tati! Thank you so much for your lovely words! And, YES, let’s go to the next collaboration straight away! There’s not a moment to lose! Onward and upward! 😀
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Ah the penis mightier than the sword! I mean lance! No I mean pen is! There’s a space between that! I promise 😛
I love it guys, so funny! I have the perfect video this made me think of:
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LOL! I’m not a big fan of ASoIaF, but this version I would watch!!
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God, this cracked me up big time! As a huge Game of Thrones fan, it was a delight to see all of these characters in a very different way! 😛
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Onward and upward!
I don’t know other directions ❤
Let's go, Tony!
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I can scuttle sideways like a crab… 😛
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LOL! So, you’re a real Knight!
H1-G3, yes?
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Scuttling sideways like a crab for very long is exhausting! Trust me, I know! 😛
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Oh my! What long legs you have, Sir Ry! 😮
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Check and mate! 😛
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I demand a revenge!
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