well. that was disappointing.
at least i had a little drama for a couple of weeks there...

As you grow older, the childish excitement of presents under the tree fades away. But the Christmas music, the bite in the air, time spent with family and friends, and the joy of driving around counting houses with Christmas lights are better than ever.

Okay, so I'm also really looking forward to my mom's homemade fudge...

[American Pastoral by Philip Roth]

You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of ( Read more... )

I'm very good at falling asleep.
I really like it when vocally-talented people read to me.
Lately, the two have been working together.

-Sleep at 12:30am ( Read more... )

Being in the art history room seems to cause thunderstorms outside. I like walking back from Sage in the rain ( Read more... )

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I considered allowing my collages to act as a substitute for today's poem, but I can't make any concessions in the first week. It would be defeatist and quite possibly fatal to the entire experiment.

r u there?
the greats are history,
anyone can be an
author now. they draw
from their skill and knowledge,
i draw on myself.

baseball, stage, river, race.
my ( Read more... )

All My Poetry
All my poetry reads
like poor prose.
I cannot abstract or
symbolize this life.

Homer wrote the Epics,
Shakespeare wrote:
"Words, Words, Words."
I just write
complete sentences.

But, a poem should not
simply be a sentence
with extra spaces.
Or can it?

Sing to me, oh Muse...

End of Summer
It's 12:05
and Fall now.
Summer fading,
the bottle empty
like the pen I'm digging
through my purse to find.

I pass up an empty pack of
cloves, old kleenex,
and a broken bottle of
my favorite perfume.

What was the point?
What is the point?
I was, am, a better person
but not always happy.
Fall is not the same as
Summer, though ( Read more... )