December 2009
49 posts
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
-Cormac McCarthy
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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“And for the epic battle at the end, well let me just...
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Lisa: How many ska kids does it take to fix a light bulb?
Me: I don't know.
Lisa: One to drop it and one to pick it up, pick it up, pick it up!
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The Dead
Susan Mitchell
At night the dead come down to the river to drink. They unburden themselves of their fears, their worries for us. They take out the old photographs. They pat the lines in our hands and tell our futures, which are cracked and yellow. Some dead find their way to our houses. They go up to the attics. They read the letters they sent us, insatiable for signs of their love. They tell...
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I Ask You by Billy Collins
Final Stanza
So forgive me if I lower my head now and listen to the short bass candle as he takes a solo while my heart thrums under my shirt— frog at the edge of a pond— and my thoughts fly off to a province made of one enormous sky and about a million empty branches.