THE VELVETEEN RABBIT ❋
Margery Williams
‘What is REAL?’ asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery
fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. ‘Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and
a stick-out handle?’ ‘Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse.
‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When someone loves you for a long, long time, not just to play
with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.’ ‘Does it hurt?’ Asked the Rabbit. ‘Sometimes,’
said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. ‘When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.’
‘Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,’ he asked, ‘or bit by bit?’ It doesn’t happen all
at once,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen
often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out
and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because
once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.’
‘I suppose you are real?’ said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought
the Skin Horse only smiled. ‘Someone made me real,’ he said. ‘That was a great many years ago;
but once you are Real you can’t become unreal again. It lasts for always.’
I WANNA BE YOURS ❋ ▼
THE APACHE WEDDING READING ❋
John Cooper-Clarke
Anon (long version)
I wanna be your vacuum cleaner
breathing in your dust
I wanna be your Ford Cortina
I will never rust
If you like your coffee hot
let me be your coffee pot
You call the shots
I wanna be yours
I wanna be your raincoat
for those frequent rainy days
I wanna be your dreamboat
when you want to sail away
Let me be your teddy bear
take me with you anywhere
I don’t care
I wanna be yours
I wanna be your electric meter
I will not run out
I wanna be the electric heater
you’ll get cold without
I wanna be your setting lotion
hold your hair in deep devotion
Deep as the deep Atlantic ocean
that’s how deep is my devotion.
Now you will feel no storms, for each of you will be shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no loneliness, for each of you is companion to the other,
You are two persons, but there is one life before you, and one home.
Turn together to look at the road you traveled, to reach this---the hour
of your happiness. It stretches behind you into the past. Look to the
future that lies ahead. A long and winding, adventure-filled road, whose
every turn means discovery, new hopes, new joys, new laughter, and a
few shared tears.
May happiness be your companion, May beauty surround you both in
the journey ahead; And through all the years to come. Go this day to
your dwelling place and enter into your days together. May your days
be good and long upon the earth. Your adventure has just begun!
THE DAY ❋ ▼
Unknown
YOUR WEDDING DAY ❋
Anon
It’s your Wedding Day
So perfect and fine,
With all your friends round you
To have a good time.
And we wish you much happiness
Starting your lives as one,
Always give love to each other
With lots of laughter and fun.
May this be the start of a happy new life
That’s full of special moments to share
May this be the first of your dreams come true
And of hope that will always be there…
May this be the start of a lifetime of trust
And of caring that’s just now begun…
May today be a day that you’ll always remember
The day when your hearts become one…
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