Star strewn sky

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On a typical day in my busy city I read a tiny story in a free paper 'Elephant killed by landmine'.  It was about an incident in Burma, the deeply troubled nation ruled by a vicious military junta. The pathos and absurdity of this struck me, the innocent Elephant killed by one of mankind's most malicious inventions, trapped in a war it does not understand.  

This song uses that as a symbol, to convey frustration and resignation at absurdity and being trapped within something one can't change, be it the world at large, a relationship or one's own self.

'Learn to handle a writing-brush and you’ll never handle a begging-bowl.'

This is a Chinese proverb that makes me concerned that, in this age of the computer keyboard, I have no familiarity with the Chinese writing brush and am destined for a future of penury and woe. 

However, some time ago it struck me that, while such sayings seem sage, no-one has actually gone out and rigorously tested them.

So I have dedicated myself to that end.

You can read my conclusions at my proverb testing blog, proverbial experiments:

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This is a song I wrote recently.

This is a symbolistic work. Acrylics on canvas.