"- don't be so quick to knock it. People don't usually part with the weird shit they personally know because they know how easy it will be to punch holes in. Now I'm tellin you somethin. It's for you to poke through the soup and find the meat." John Patrick Shanley's 'the dreamer examines his pillow'

Thursday, February 01, 2007

I want to live the kind of life that people will look back on and say nothing, but smile. And take one more step.

7 Comments:

Blogger William said...

you amaze me. and i love you for it.

call me if you get a chance, or expect a call in the enar future.

infinite love

6:04 PM

 
Blogger Lennard said...

You or other people?

12:17 PM

 
Blogger Elysia said...

You're well on your way
:)

8:08 AM

 
Blogger Elizabeth said...

other people. come watch the sopranos with me.

9:48 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

On the Plethora of Dryads

Hearing a white saint rave
About a quintessential beauty
Visible only to the paragon heart,
I tried my sight on an apple-tree
That eccentric knob and wart
Had all my love.

Without meat or drink I sat
Starving my fantasy down
To discover the metaphysical Tree which hid
From my worlding look its brilliant vein
Far deeper in gross wood
Than axe could cut.

But before I might blind sense
To see with the spotless soul,
Each particular quirk so ravished me
Every pock and stain bulked more beautiful
Than flesh of any body
Flawed by love’s prints.

Battle however I would
To break through that patchwork
Of leaves’ bicker and whisk in babel tongues,
Streak and mottle of tawn bark,
No visionary lightings
Pierced my dense lid.

Instead, a wanton fit
Dragged each dazzled sense apart
Surfeiting eye, ear, taste, touch, smell;
Now, snared by this miraculous art,
I ride earth’s burning carrousel
Day in, day out,

And such grit corrupts my eyes
I must watch sluttish dryads twitch
Their multifarious silks in the holy grove
Until no chaste tree but suffers blotch
Under flux of those seductive
Red, green, blues.

6:30 PM

 
Blogger Elysia said...

Bah! How am I ever going to write your biography if you never give me updates on your life?!?!

10:10 AM

 
Blogger Lennard said...

I want to live the kind of life where I read Elizabeth's blog after she updates it.

1:11 PM

 

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