JCC Colo The Gorilla - 1 year on :(

JFC I’m all for this mockery, it’s richly deserved. But that video is possibly the worst thing I’ve ever seen. Thank god he’s disappeared.

 

Ahhh yes. Perhaps the only man in the world who can make Chris Martin look like Lemmy Kilmister.

 

Harambe was better.

 

Because he died the American way?

 

DON'T MOCK ON A DEAD GORILLA WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

JUST DROP IT NOW I'M WARNING YOU.

 

Only in our hearts

 

I must proclaim here and now that Wocky is the best thing about these boards, and I am his biggest fan.

Though Colo was something else... His/her light will never be extinguished. #NeverForget #RespectOurServicemen

 

We’ve all been going through the motions for these past 365 days. Healing? Maybe, as a nation, some day.

 

It's funny that when I think upon it - in those moments when I can, when the grief is not too great to bear - I first learned of Colo when I first learned of her death. I admit like others I was not as composed as I should be, but what else could I do? I was in shock, I was wrestling with big ideas like "can a gorilla nobody's heard of and who is never actually featured in any form of media, be a celebrity?" (the answer is "no", by the way) and that was my way of coping with loss.

Had it not been for the promptly extinguished, inextinguishable love @Ghost had for Colo, I'd still be here unaware that she'd lived and died. If that isn't a powerful reminder of the value of earnest, unintentional piss-taking in the dead pool thread, I don't know what does.

 

If Heaven Had A Window
© Kathy J Parenteau

If heaven had a window and God granted me a view,
of all the beauty it beholds, I'd only look for you.
I'd listen for your laughter that was always music to me,
your beautiful hair and hazel eyes is what I'd wish most to see.
If I could only view once more the smile that warmed my heart,
I'd treasure that moment as long as I live and we must be apart.
Here on earth I search for you and pray to God for signs,
and every day that passes you're still with me in my mind.
I know you're happy in heaven; you've earned your mansion indeed,
I imagine your kitchen table and you waiting there for me.
I love you and I miss you more than words can say,
and what I wouldn't give just to talk to you today.
I hope that you can hear me and listen to my thoughts,
and wherever this life takes me you know I've not forgot.
That once upon a time I was blessed and loved, it's true,
and if heaven had a window I'd only look for you.



Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/if-heaven-had-a-window

 

I froze your tears and made a dagger,
and stabbed it in my cock forever.
It stays there like Excalibur,
Are you my Arthur?
Say you are.

Take this cool dark steeled blade,
Steal it, sheath it, in your lake.
I’d drown with you to be together.
Must you breathe? Cos I need Heaven.

 

Thoughts and prayers.... post "amen" if you agree.

 

Intense lyrics!

 

I remember this shot which featured on the front cover of GQ's July issue in 2009.

It was a coming of age moment.

 

That was my sig for like a solid year.

 

No it wasn't.

 

That gorilla's eyes aren't hazel.

 

What color are they, Jabab-Wokey

 

Wocky do you want to share some of your grief for Colo?

 

What do you know of it, and what's it to you?

 

Its picture is in this thread.