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john mayer, MAYER
we all know john mayer the singer
but john mayer the cutest geek in the galaxy?!?!?!
he had me at zelda
oh and dream guy number 2
is henry from ugly betty
i mean come on how could you not fall in love with his glasses
and his boyish sheepish smile
and awkwardness?
oh, awkwardness
and a poem (or prose) from greatpoets:
The Penalty for Bigamy is Two Wives
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In the window of the shop called Beautiful Things Never Last Forever
You Were You Are Elegy
Mary Jo Bang
Fragile like a child is fragile.
Destined not to be forever.
Destined to become other
To mother. Here I am
Sitting on a chair, thinking
About you. Thinking
About how it was
To talk to you.
How sometimes it was wonderful
And sometimes it was awful.
How drugs when drugs were
Undid the good almost entirely
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top five (because i have nothing else to do)
rina's top five things to do when she can't sleep
1. read a book
2. online comics -- scarygoround, toothpastefordinner, minus, questionablecontent, mutts, pbf
3. eat eat eat
4. watch infomercials or anything brainless
5. blog (a wise, curly-haired man once said "fuck you and your blog")
rina's top five comfort food
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exactly & then but not quite
Vacationing With Sylvia Plath
Kelli Russell Agodon
Maybe I should have come alone.
Maybe if the clouds didnt resemble
tombstones and I had brought something
more upbeat to read
the ocean wouldnt seem so final
an ongoing thought carried to shore
then taken away,
washing the same green sock
over and over again.
Maybe if I was taking medication
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folks, let's all move to canada
yey i got fables 2 and y the last man 9 and unlikely all in one day
and you know what's even sweeter?
I'M NOT BROKE
balikbayan titas = a grand life
and something lovely, pilfered from Carina
look at that!
FEIST!
her music sends me into a bipolar frenzy
(one minute i'm crazy dancing in my room
and the next i'm just another twenty year old melancholic)
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she's like a stain on my subconscious sheets.
that line should definitely end with a period.
i was going through my poetry archives and two poems hit me:
tony hoagland's a color of the sky (where this line comes from)
& final faith by yevgeny yevtushenko
A COLOR OF THE SKY
Tony Hoagland
Windy today and I feel less than brilliant,
driving over the hills from work.
There are the dark parts on the road
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this thing called growing up
i swear i'm no good at it
number 1
to get to the back of the car,
all you have to do is lift the seat.
thing is, this takes a lot of time
- you have to pull a lever on the side, pull the seat up using a different lever, then bring it down again
so i opted to just go to the back using some obscure (more like invented) form
of ninja-acrobatics.
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words
a poem
this one is by robert hass, whom i noticed is so meticulous with his words
it's not just about choosing the right word but the right sound
every word has its own song
say persimmons when you want a song about morning
and twigs when you want a song about sneezing
MEDITATION AT LAGUNITAS
Robert Hass
All the new thinking is about loss.
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bim reads poetry!
bim the fact that you read, appreciated and even posted poetry
bim - this absolutely made my night
nothing pleases me more than a convert
this deserves its own post in honor of THE BIM
and here, folks, is the LEGENDARY poem that helped THE BIM see the light:
(and i see why -- i mean, stan lee writing a poem? come on!)
GOD WOKE
Stan Lee
God woke
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i love you, grandpa ernie
so i took that iconic walk home
yes, there was rain and i had a hoodie and an umbrella to match
and the last cigarette
(a box of cookies too)
i took a detour to the park and sat on the swings
one hand on the umbrella the other on the last few puffs
just like in the movies
we always go to the movies we always want it to appear like in the movies
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