FIC Torchwood (poetry) - Endings and Beginnings

Title: Endings and Beginnings
Author: fajrdrako
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warning: G
Summary: Perspective on "Everything Changes".
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, characters and subject are property of the BBC.
As I explained with Jack's Pick, fatchickengirl challenged damalan to write a short piece of Torchwood poetry of eight syllables per line. His poem, End of Days, is here. I did the same, with my own 'constraint'and their okay. I think I ought to name this poetic form after them - a 'damirl' or 'fatlan'. Hmm.

Cross-posted to torch_wood.

The first of a series of my own:

( Endings and Beginnings )

Mae West...

One of the books I've been reading lately is The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West. It makes me wonder why we don't see the same sort of clever wit now that we used to have in the early-to-mid twentieth century - say, starting around the time of Oscar Wilde and continuing with people like Noel Coward, Cole Porter, Mae West, Dorothy Parker, Winston Churchill, and Groucho Marx.

Examples from Mae West - sometimes from interviews and comments she made, sometimes from her movies and shows:

• His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.



• It's better to be looked over than overlooked.



• There are no good girls gone wrong; there are bad girls found out.



• That guy's so crooked he uses a corkscrew for a ruler.



• Gentlemen may prefer blondes - but who says that blondes prefer gentlemen?



• I'm the regal type - that's not a posture you learn in school, dearie. It's the way you look at the world.



• Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.



• I used to be Snow White... but I drifted.



• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.



• Love thy neighbour - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.



• If you put your foot in it, make sure it's your best foot.



• He who hesitates is last.