The Second Coming

Following on form my previous poem post, i have noted how much Yeats means to members of this LJ community. so here is a second poem by him and one which in my opinion , tangentially foreshadows the final few episodes of Buffy season 6 from "Seeing Red", the fatal gunshot ricochet that kills Tara caused by Warren ("The Trio" of nerds). Before this tragedy , Tara reconnects with Willow , and prefiguring entropy , says to Willow "Things Fall Apart". After the fatal shot Willow's eyes turns to red like the spatter of red blood on her clothes where the bullet goes through Tara, let alone the fatal wounding of Buffy. This is the turning point where the darkness of black magic turns Willow , anarchy and chaos is loosed upon the world.

The Second Coming was written in 1919, a year after the calamitous First World War.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Back To Rainham

Off to Rainham again to the second and last day at the petrol station. Six hours work counting traffic, with two breaks in between. Should be fun, and Moe, the interviewer lass, will be there again. Weather not as hot as Wednesday thank goodness, although expected to reach 28 degrees C.

Killed By Death

Latest post from The Passion Of The Nerd in online at You Tube examine the Season 2 Buffy episode (S2 ep. 18) "Killed By Death". He hits it on the spot. A bit of a damp squid after "Passion" but some interesting points mentioned in the commentary.

Look forward to his comments on the final Season 2 closers.

Job Well Done

The last day of the traffic count in Rainham is finally over. Another sweltering hot day as well with nos shade bit had lots of water to drink. a looks very good now though!

Moe was there as well doing the interviews in the shop area.

Already filled in the Excel sheet with the results do it is time to relax into the Buffyverse again.

Spike and Buffy Love Scenes

A fews tasters from Season 6 (for thespian15 -

(WARNING - contains sex and violence)

Spike and invisible Buffy

.. and from "Smashed"

.. and from "Wrecked"

. and i think we all know what the missing word from "something better than killing a Slayer is .." (starts with the f word).

Cool me down someone.

Brutal love indeed.