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aprilstarchildI have recently picked up a fifties edition of The Portable Dorothy Parker, and realizing that I really like her. She's smart and funny. A good number of her stories seem to be about people who don't realize they're tremendous jackasses, or total failures of communication between the genders. And I love her poetry, as cynical as most of it is. There were a whole bunch I wanted to share, but I know that most of the people on my friends list really don't care, so I narrowed it down to two in the hopes some of you will actually read them.
UNFORTUNATE COINCIDENCE
By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
and he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying--
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
INCURABLE
And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned;
The calmer, I, to see it true
That ways of love are never new--
The love that sets you daft and dazed
Is every love that ever blazed;
The happier, I, to fathom this:
A kiss is every other kiss.
The reckless vow, the lovely name,
When Helen walked, were spoke the same;
The weighted breast, the grinding woe,
When Phaon fled, were ever so.
Oh, it is sure as it is sad
That any lad is every lad,
And what's a girl, to dare implore
Her dear be hers forevermore?
Though he be tried and he be bold,
And swearing death should he be cold,
He'll run the path the others went...
But you, my sweet, are different.
I hate the fact that I'm leaving town straight from work. Like, I get out at three pm, I have to bike to Sunset by 3:30 for the bus to Tillamook. So I have to have everything ready to go in time to leave for work tomorrow morning (I have a list). And then there I'll be on the max, with a big pannier and a sleeping bag strapped to my bike. Which I'll then have to drag into work. C'est la vie.
I'm still really excited to go out of town this weekend!! *does the happy dance*
Speaking of bikey things, Pedalpalooza is in only two months and people on the Shift list are pointing out that people gotta have rides posted before late April to be in the printed schedule. So far there's only 45 rides/events, and it would seem that Shawn G is leading, like, half of them.
Okay, time to chill out with a beer and an episode of Big Love. Then: bedtime.
UNFORTUNATE COINCIDENCE
By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
and he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying--
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
INCURABLE
And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned;
The calmer, I, to see it true
That ways of love are never new--
The love that sets you daft and dazed
Is every love that ever blazed;
The happier, I, to fathom this:
A kiss is every other kiss.
The reckless vow, the lovely name,
When Helen walked, were spoke the same;
The weighted breast, the grinding woe,
When Phaon fled, were ever so.
Oh, it is sure as it is sad
That any lad is every lad,
And what's a girl, to dare implore
Her dear be hers forevermore?
Though he be tried and he be bold,
And swearing death should he be cold,
He'll run the path the others went...
But you, my sweet, are different.
I hate the fact that I'm leaving town straight from work. Like, I get out at three pm, I have to bike to Sunset by 3:30 for the bus to Tillamook. So I have to have everything ready to go in time to leave for work tomorrow morning (I have a list). And then there I'll be on the max, with a big pannier and a sleeping bag strapped to my bike. Which I'll then have to drag into work. C'est la vie.
I'm still really excited to go out of town this weekend!! *does the happy dance*
Speaking of bikey things, Pedalpalooza is in only two months and people on the Shift list are pointing out that people gotta have rides posted before late April to be in the printed schedule. So far there's only 45 rides/events, and it would seem that Shawn G is leading, like, half of them.
Okay, time to chill out with a beer and an episode of Big Love. Then: bedtime.
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Date: 2009-04-03 01:54 pm (UTC)"There's no place like home."
"No, there's a billion places like home. But only one where you live."
I'm happier, being on the side of 'in the know and knowing I don't know much'. A much more balanced, secure place to be. :)
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Date: 2009-04-06 01:49 am (UTC)"I like to have a martini,
two at the very most.
Three and I'm under the table,
four and I'm under the host."