> Little Bird wrote:
> 
> > From "Otis and Marlena" - "She taps her glass with
> an emory file,
> > watching three rings in the sun..."
> 

> --- hell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >  
> Or Marlena was sitting in the sun wearing three
> rings on her hand, or she
> was watching someone with three rings.  Or someone
> was juggling three rings
> on the beach, or.....
> 
> There are any number of interpretations of Joni's
> lyrics, and any one of
> them might be "right".  Only Joni knows for sure,
> but as she has said in the
> past "Forget about what it means to me, what does it
> mean to YOU?"

...or the three rings of a circus. Include those
Pagliacci summer frocks, and you've got your clown.
The Grand Parade (of cellulite jiggling to her golden
pools.) Jiggling/juggling. Marlena watches from her
balcony "like it's an opera box." Circus, opera,
whatever, there's lots going on in the circus/opera of
life. And lots of meaning in so many of Joni's songs.



=====
Catherine
Toronto

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