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Cold, bright December day;

Gaze up through bare branches

Where vapour trails criss-cross

In the wide sapphire blue above.

Like long-gone Jimi sang:

‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky’,

And I would if I could,

But I’d rather kiss you, my love.

(2011)

 

‘Purple Haze’ by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in 1967, was an explosively exciting record then – and still is. Back then though, I used to puzzle over the misheard lyric: ‘’Scuse me while I kiss this guy’.

The picture is another one taken from Abbey Park near where we live.