We continue our ongoing DaveFest today with another entry to celebrate our resident boxing enthusiast, Prince fanatic, medical student and professional name appreciator.
On Monday, the inimitable Fannie Cranium got us going and updated us on his health issue, and ways we can contribute to his GoFundMe page. Yesterday we had a delightful ode from the wonderful Kerbey, so check that out too!
Today I’m happy to pop in and deliver my silly little ode to Dave in the form of a “poem” made up of slightly modified Muhammad Ali quotes.
This is the legend of Cassius Dave,
The most beautiful fighter in the world today.
Float like a Prince fan dancing to Purple Rain,
Sting like a needle off the hands of a med student
Ouch!
Dave comes out to meet you and you start to retreat,
if you go back an inch farther you’ll end up in a ringside seat.
And then after he’s beat you,
he’ll come back there and treat you!
Dave’s done something new for this fight.
Wrestled with an alligator. Tussled with a whale.
Handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail.
Only last week he murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick. He’s so mean he makes medicine sick.”
(Well, hopefully not. We all know he’s a kindly soul! Only Dr. Spaceman can make medicine sick.)
And as the Great Dave once said,
“I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest!”
One day Dave will be as great a man of science as Dr. Spaceman
For every struggle that Dave survived,
For every dispute he endured, to rise,
Dave will go down in history
as a model for champs to come!
In a late interview, Ali laid out his recipe for life, which Dave has followed, with just a few special additions:
He took a few cups of love.
He took one tablespoon of patience,
One teaspoon of generosity,
One pint of kindness.
He took one quart of laughter,
One pinch of concern.
And then, he mixed willingness with happiness.
Adding a sprinkling of Canadian indie music,
A full teaspoon of I’ve Been Everywhere lyrics,
Mixed in a love for a challenge,
And a closet full of red jackets
And he stirred it up well.
Then he spread it over a span of a lifetime,
And he served it to each and every deserving person he met.
Thanks Dave! We rave on!
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Reblogged this on Fannie Cranium's and commented:
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You have a gift for words. 🙂
Thanks Fannie! Just re-gifting to the blog 🙂
Love the re-gifting the blog. Just in time for the beginning of the Christmas selling season. With joy in our hearts. 🙂
Yes he does! And he has that gift in multiple languages too!
In the words of Buddy Holly, yes, RAVE ON. I literally just walked in the door from the doctor’s office and am SO GLAD that my doctor was not Chris Parnell. Seriously, will Dave wind up changing the rules and wearing red doctor coats? I think this part of the recipe–” mixed willingness with happiness” is a good life lesson. We have to be willing!
Red doctor coats! How appropriate is that?! Hey, I think if it’s his own private practice he can wear what he wants 🙂
Thank you for taking care of the recipe part, Arto, so I do not have to publish one. Your poem has a certain hip-hop vibe to it and I think we should all dance to it. While we drink that cocktail created from you oh so many posts ago. Good to read you again. You done your buddy proud 😀 Hope all is well enough on your end.
Things are certainly well enough. Or to use other Midwestern parlance, “not too bad” and “could be worse”. Haha, you are my people up there.
I think we all agree I’m authentically hip hop. Glad you were able to groove to it. Sorry if I at your recipe, couldn’t resist including it! Good to be back on the blog again after so long.
Since we’re of the same Scandinavian cloth, you must know that my gratitude was genuine and you did not at my recipe (??). I had no recipe and am now off the hook. Glad things are well enough and could be worse, not too bad. My oldest has come up with a good one. To her, everything is “mediocre.” Why dare hope for more? 😉 Hip hop hip hoppity hop.
Oh dear, I used all my words in the post and only had “at’ left for the comment! Typing this at the car service waiting room so I will blame my phone for that one. Hah.
Mediocre! What a strange one. I wonder if she got it from the new Mad Max movie, where that was a semi catch phrase.
I think Dave would say to her, “always dare to hope for more!”
Dearest Arto, this was ridiculous and beautiful – I couldn’t help but smile. Not too many people can pull off that combo. Thank you. Much love, my man!
And that picture of Ali with a dove! I’ve never seen that one before!
Much heart, brotha.
“. . . Day 3 of the Dave Rave sweeps across the webscape like a total solar eclipse, serving up a big, cosmic ‘Wow!’ as the inimitable Arto comes online . . .”
“. . . fresh revelations from Arto lay out the Prince-King connection . . . Who knew? . . .”
“. . . a rumble in the jungle . . .”
“. . . Arto’s gifts are on full display as he rallies for Dave . . .”
“. . . Arto’s irrepressible comic pizzazz rivals that of the King himself . . .”
A rumble in the jungle…sounds about right. You are good, diddy.
Rumble in the jungle is I think an Ali reference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rumble_in_the_Jungle
I was hoping to beef up my sports and boxing creds!
LOL (That stands for really funny.)
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I appreciate the sprinkling of Canadian indie music in particular, and really all of the wonderfulness of this post in general 🙂