haha, my family is so 'eh whatever' about the holidays. we put up an electric menorah & a tree after christmas (russian tradition to have a new years tree or something?). it's like, my sister & i get so much year-round that asking for elaborate gifts on certain days is absurd.
plus i'm atheist, so i'm indifferent one way or the other. that's my holiday schpeel. i hate that almost everything's closed today, i'll probably be sulking all day too.
i'm the same way.. i'm trying to decide what i want but its so hard cause there's so many things that i love and apply to my life in every way. but i think you have to think about what poems or lines you like the most and move you in a way that you just can't live without them. that's what i did anyway!
have you decided on anything yet? every time i narrow it down, i end up thinking of like five more to replace the ones i've omitted.. it's an endless cycle!
i know, i know. it's impossible to single out a line or a couplet of eliot, though. i mean like.. i'd want 'the love song of j. alfred prufrock' in its entirety & that is just not possible.
prufrock... ah ! he kills me. and the four quartets; there is no end but addition, the trailing consequence of further days and hours... i think if i got a line of his it might have to be "until mermaids wake us, and we drown"
im have the same dilemmasugarlungsDecember 25 2006, 20:30:08 UTC
i want "o my people, what have i done unto thee" going across my stomach in between my hips
i want
"Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with which to venture forth.
Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change?"
all of it, the whole thing, i don't care how ridiculous that is.
as well as "i've got to tell you how i love you always" across my upper back
i want neruda's "furies & sorrows" (lines of it, bits & pieces all around my body)
"It's time to train yourself to sleep alone again and it's so fucking hard."
"For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all"
"PLEASE do you think of me as often as I think of you
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Re: im have the same dilemmatonguetieDecember 25 2006, 20:50:22 UTC
oh no i love so many of those! brautigan being the obvious, but really i'm glad i'm not the only poetry nut all giddy at the prospect of having beautiful words permanently etched onto my skin.
more that i'm considering: and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
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but give me one truly alive woman tonight walking across the floor toward me
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and you can have all the poems
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I want to unfold. Nowhere I wish to stay crooked, bent; for there I would be dishonest, untrue. I want my conscience to be true before you; want to describe myself like a picture I observed for a long time, one close up, like a new word I learned and embraced, like the everday jug, like my mother's face, like a ship that carried me along through the deadliest storm.
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days when children say funny and brilliant things like savages trying to send you a message through their bodies while their bodies are still alive enough to transmit and feel and run up and down without locks and paychecks and ideals and possessions and beetle-like opinions.i'll
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Re: oh my godtonguetieDecember 25 2006, 21:03:34 UTC
yes! i felt the need to isolate it from the rest of the excerpt. i don't care if it's out of context, and no one knows why it's so important except me & anyone else who has seen the poem. that line drives me crazy looking at it.
last night i was watching a movie called loving annabelle and at the end there was a beautiful quote by rainer maria rilke and for the life of me i wish i could remember what it said but at 4am everything seems to run together.
i'm getting bob dylan "like a rolling stone" tattooed on me in memory of my best friend hopefully on the one year anniversary of his passing if money is good.
"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."
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why don't you celebrate christmas?
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my family's jewish!
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jewwwwwwwwwish. but you get presents! for 9 days!
i get far too depressed every christmas morning and by noon i 9am i am always in my room sobbing.
(all of which has nothing to do with presents.)
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plus i'm atheist, so i'm indifferent one way or the other. that's my holiday schpeel. i hate that almost everything's closed today, i'll probably be sulking all day too.
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every time i narrow it down, i end up thinking of like five more to replace the ones i've omitted.. it's an endless cycle!
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i'll probably end up getting more further down the line, who knows, but i know i want those as of right now.
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i think if i got a line of his it might have to be "until mermaids wake us, and we drown"
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i want
"Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous
(and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable
list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with
which to venture forth.
Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else
for a change?"
all of it, the whole thing, i don't care how ridiculous that is.
as well as "i've got to tell you how i love you always" across my upper back
i want neruda's "furies & sorrows" (lines of it, bits & pieces all around my body)
"It's time to train yourself
to sleep alone again
and it's so fucking hard."
"For fear you will be alone
you do so many things
that aren't you at all"
"PLEASE do you think of me as often as I think of you ( ... )
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more that i'm considering:
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
-
but give me one truly alive woman
tonight
walking across the floor toward me
-
and you can have all the poems
-
I want to unfold.
Nowhere I wish to stay crooked, bent;
for there I would be dishonest, untrue.
I want my conscience to be
true before you;
want to describe myself like a picture I observed
for a long time, one close up,
like a new word I learned and embraced,
like the everday jug,
like my mother's face,
like a ship that carried me along
through the deadliest storm.
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days when children say funny and brilliant things
like savages trying to send you a message through
their bodies while their bodies are still
alive enough to transmit and feel and run up
and down without locks and paychecks and
ideals and possessions and beetle-like
opinions.i'll ( ... )
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i'm getting bob dylan "like a rolling stone" tattooed on me in memory of my best friend hopefully on the one year anniversary of his passing if money is good.
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