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[solipsismsaves]

i. sometimes i will be somewhere and i will hear a song and i will think softly to myself: "this. this is the first song of the rest of your life." sometimes this happens in a store, like the snack aisle of a safeway at eleven pm on a saturday night. the flourescent lights dim for a moment, and i will sneak a look around to see if my fellow aisle-

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[selsin]

i added you quite awhile ago and i completely forgot! i've always wanted to swim in a river but i never have. maybe that can be a goal for summer 09. which ones did you swim in? i've never taken a poetry class and everytime i read a poem i feel dreadfully lost. do you have a favorite poem?

[solipsismsaves]

finding secret river swimming holes is one of my favorite things to do in life. this summer: the yuba, big sur, the trinity, and the van duzen. the trinity is my favorite, and the hardest to find: hot springs, rapids, and a death defying hike.

i had never taken a poetry class either, but i also teach high school english and felt like i wasn't giving poetry the weight it deserved. my favorite poem is probably 'mirror' by sylvia plath or 'scheherezade' by richard siken. most poetry is hard for me but the right poem will just sort of seize me.

[solipsismsaves]

i wish we could trade places...i am dying for a change of scenery. i'm pouty because i was supposed to move to brooklyn this year. i would go for oakland if it wasn't so far from school and work! i'm just stuck in a crazyhours routine and am watching the third wave of friends leaving while my life won't be changing until at least a year from december.

i'm going to try to squeeze in one more yuba river dip before the indian summer is over. right by nevada city (so magical!), about 3 hours. i'll call you and pick you up on the way whenever it happens!

[anonymous]

the henry miller library was actually emil white's house, henry miller's good friend. henry miller lived on partington ridge about eight miles south of the henry miller library. i lived at the library over the summer, and it's such an amazing place. sorry to be anonymous. i just stumbled across your lj and i don't have one of my own.

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[anonymous]

henry miller was good friends with emil white, not the house.

[solipsismsaves]

Thanks for the correction! Maybe we've run into each other, I stayed overnight at the Library in August for the Conspiracy of Beards show.

[aerodrome1]

I love Joan Didion.