In other news, my car is now a North Carolina car. It feels much more at home. It even behaved and left its little check engine light off long enough to get itself a nice fancy inspection sticker in the corner of its windscreen. I'm proud.
to see the world the way I see it now
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introduction to poetry
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
-- Billy Collins
Every tear you cry
Every doubt you have
All of these things will pass away
All of your big mistakes
Your little old heart would break
Wishing that i could take them back
Write down the things you don't want
Burn them in a glass
Write down the things you dream of
Make a paper plane that flies to Heaven
-- Jann Arden
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
oh yes we can
All eyes are on North Carolina (oh... and Indiana) as we roll into yet another one of what CNN refers to as those days that could change the state of this Presidential Primary Race once and for all. I'm not that deluded, but I have been caught up in the hype. Despite missing Michelle Obama's Durham talk due to my week-from-hell of sickness and IV needles, and even though someone thoughtlessly forgot to issue my invitation to the RTP invitation-only event Barack held in Durham today (he apparently stopped by a local cafe unannounced and bought everyone pound cake. Give me pound cake as an incentive over a few cents of gas relief any day!), I did get back on my feet enough to join in the spirit and do my part to get out the vote today. Anne Marie, Maggie, and I went door-to-door in North Durham sporting cheerful smiles and Obama door "putters" (no... not door "hangers," since they have no holes for hanging, we were told. These are door "putters") and braved the "BEWARE DOG!" signs for a good cause. A life-list moment.
In other news, my car is now a North Carolina car. It feels much more at home. It even behaved and left its little check engine light off long enough to get itself a nice fancy inspection sticker in the corner of its windscreen. I'm proud.
In other news, my car is now a North Carolina car. It feels much more at home. It even behaved and left its little check engine light off long enough to get itself a nice fancy inspection sticker in the corner of its windscreen. I'm proud.
