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[sumbitch]

For Judith

"...and this word
bumping around in the landscape..."
   -Judith Barrington

But it's a soft word, Judith!
If you said a word for its softness,
you might say billowy,
or valley floor, or lesbian.
If you made up an unbumpy sound
you might come out with ahloovay,
or elyamoor, or lesbian.The ell, the zz, the buh, the nn

Comments

[ex_absolutef238]

ouch. in a soft way.

[spillingvelvet]

*paw*

[ex_absolutef238]

*unbumpies*

[sumbitch]

yes.

♥

[spillingvelvet]

i like this. quite a lot.

[sumbitch]

me too. obv. ♥

[aprilkat]

Living gently and kindly and with compassion. It was so late in life that I learned it was even possible.

And some people never learn this, darling. *hugs you tight*

[sumbitch]

thank you. ♥

[anatsuno]

oh, hey. this is for me! I am made happy.

[sumbitch]

i did not know or i would have remitted it to you earlier!

[dracunculus]

yeah, I really needed to read that again.

Here's a couple more for you, both from UKL's translation of the Tao Te Ching:

"Hardness

Living people
are soft and tender.
Corpses are hard and stiff.
The ten thousand things,
the living grass, the trees,
are soft, pliant.
Dead, they're dry and brittle.

So hardness and stiffness
go with death;
tenderness, softness,
go with life.

And the hard sword fails,
the stiff tree's felled.
The hard and great go under.
The soft and weak stay up."

"What is complete

The valley spirit never dies
Call it the mystery, the woman.

The mystery,
the Door of the Woman,
is the root
of earth and heaven

Forever this endures, forever.
And all its uses are easy."

[sumbitch]

I love the one on "hardness". You gave Bizzy the translation a long time ago -- I should pick it up. Actually I've been thinking lately that I should pick up some of her short stories.

did you decide to skip the movie?

[dracunculus]

yeah, I decided that cooking dinner would be equally calming, and would result in me getting a hug faster.

[sumbitch]

v sensible. still kind of interested in Amazing Grace, tho.

whatcha making?