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From the same blogger who brought you letters of note comes another one: Lists of Note.
I like lists, and so it only makes sense that I'd like reading other peoples lists, often as screwy and messed up as my own...
Sadie Hawkins Day
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- Category: Miscellany
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Having avoided answering the phone, checking my email, all for naught, Sadie Hawkins Day passed again without a single marriage proposal.
Although, having informed a table celebrating a 20th birthday of the attendant folk customs the feted birthday girl, just turning 20, Great Grandma as it were, suggests that perhaps she should propose marriage to me. How to escape this? "Darling, at 20 you're far, far too young, call me when you're 37 or so...".
95 Poems - E.E. Cummings
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#16 as follows:
in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why,remember how
in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so(forgetting seem)
in time of roses(who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if,remember yes
in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek(forgetting find)
and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me,remember me
Around South America
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- Category: Dreams
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I'm in some Central American country, wet, humid, a large public washroom, urinals, showers, toilets, everything set with broken tiles and wet, wet, dripping wet, that uncomfortable wet that has me not wanting to walk around it at all and I haven't any shoes...
But I've conceived the idea of taking a ship, ferry, around the horn of South America, part road trip, part ferry, and I'm talking to J from work, he did the trip last year...."27 days it took me" he's telling me, and I'm thinking I can do it in less if only I can get on the next ferry...
Outside, humid, warm, grey clouds over the Atlantic, I'm imagining the long drive...
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