Take 21: Twenty-two & Eyes of Blue
(Whilst cleaning up my desk/found this piece/should'a posted it last Summer/OOPS!/also? On SOME subjects? Ya gotta stand up and be counted...of which I feel it my duty...to do.)
A letter to my dear friend Eva:
Dear Sweetie-pie, my unique adventure continues: Hotel Dave/Casa di Amici, Piacenza, Italy, South of Switzerland where they make the Cuckoo Clocks...and hoard zillions of gold bullion stolen from Jewish and displaced people back in the old days.
Nice mountains, though. At the end of Summer the Swiss Shepherds (with their cows) parade from up on high and march down the mountain roads into the lower valleys and so into towns; Interlaken; places like that.
It's a monotonous, though quite splendid affair. Huge heffers (cows, I guess) dangle HUGE Cow bells around their necks that go: "Clank-a, clank-a, CLANK!" with every stride they make. (Hemmingway probably wrote about it, someplace) And the traffic must give way. The Swiss cops "police" the whole affair. The Shepherds? Not one of them over 25 years old! -they all wear "Kaftan" shirts worthy of ANY Grateful Dead concert gathering...and on the whole, appear quite joyous and pacific.
.....Perhaps the reality SHOULD be where the cows wear huge credit cards (Amex, Visa, Dinner's Club) from their satiated, sagging throats; the Shepherds? Pin striped Armani suits, Gucci shoes, Turnbull & Asser shirts/throw in some 10 gallon Texas Stetson hats, why don't cha?
I, of course, do NOT begrudge anyone's lot in life, for richer or for poorer, nor blame the children for the sins of their fathers. There are many beautiful people in the Alpine region... But I sure would like to crack open the vaults of some of those banks in Zurich and, if not run off with all the cash, leastways? -get a "gander" at some of their Accounting books! -that is, IF they, like 9MILLION people's lives...haven't been sent up in flames!...?
A big "Hi!" to your brother Max! Very BIG HUGS (and do it!) to your pappa, Reiner: He's "mein bruder". Salute to Count Axel von Phad who I often think of and whose friendship I cherish. Your Mother? Tell Gabi I will hug - Big Time! - when next we meet! -dave
PS: Come visit.
PPS: Brings lots of Jakordia cigarette papers because DOWN HERE, in Italy - South of Switzerland - they cost the Earth!...:)
c 2011/davedelacroix/lord borgo/piacenza/italy/yup! -South of u know where: cuckoo! -cuckoo!...:)
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