re: bad
19th May 10
I wish I could wash you away. Just one steamy shower, one load of laundry, and you’re gone. I wish you would stay out of my dreams and let me forget about you.
re: good
18th May 10
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Langston Hughes, “Dreams”
17th May 10
I feel like telling you everything, talking until my words aren’t a part of me anymore; they are a part of the air. And suddenly they are not my problem, and I am free.
beautiful stranger
16th May 10
“I hadn’t understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’ still had any meaning for me.”
Albert Camus, The Stranger
14th May 10
Smokey the Bear heads
into the autumn woods
with a red can of gasoline
and a box of wooden matches
His ranger’s hat is cocked
at a disturbing angle.
His brown fur gleams
under the high sun
as his paws, the size
of catcher’s mitts,
crackle into the distance.
He is sick of dispensing
warnings to the careless,
the half-wit camper,
the dumbbell hiker.
He is going to show them
how a professional does it.
Billy Collins, “Flames”
the end and a beginning
14th May 10
Sometimes, when people decide to leave you for good, you have to let them, no matter how much you don’t want them to. There are some things that are far beyond our control. Even if you have the strength to fight for them, you have to accept the cold harsh truth — the people that you can’t live without can live without you.
