archives for May 2007

vignettes of violence

Saturday 12 May 2007 | I like a cookie

You know those days where you just don’t understand anything in the world?
So about a week ago, that beloved malapropism-in-newsprint the Santa Fe New Mexican ran a bone-rattlingly horrific story about a guy who knocked over his pregnant girlfriend with his pickup truck. He’d partially succeeded in running her over when a stranger tried to […]

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a day spent outside is a good day, encore

Friday 11 May 2007 | I like a cookie

Hey—I didn’t mean to bring anyone down with Friday Refrains. The possibility never even occurred to me, which maybe tells you something about being bipolar. Sorry if I repelled, offended or just plain grossed out anyone.
After another sleepless night, another magnificent gardening day, yielding four count ‘em four biodegradable bags of dandelions (blown far past […]

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friday refrains · lost daughters, part one

Friday 11 May 2007 | someone left a cookie

Ἕστι μοι κάλα πάισ χρυσίοισιν ἀνθέμοισιν
ἐμφέρην ἔχοισα μόρφαν, Κλῆισ ἀγαπάτα,
ἀντι τᾶσ ἔγω οὐδὲ Λυδίαν παῖσαν οὐδ᾽ ἔρανναν.
I have a small daughter who is beautiful
like a gold flower. I would not trade
my darling Kleïs for all Lydia or even
for lovely Lesbos.
—Sappho (tr. Willis Barnstone)

For all the wide, vasty reaches of literature, there are surprisingly few poems […]

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radio silence

Tuesday 8 May 2007 | I like a cookie

Indicates only: 1) worthless piece-of-ass modem; 2) been writing poems.

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there’s always a downside

Saturday 5 May 2007 | I like a cookie

US Calls for Strong Warnings On Sleep Aids’ Strange Effects
The most widely prescribed sleeping pills can cause strange behavior like driving and eating while asleep, the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday, announcing that strong new warnings will be placed on the labels of 13 drugs.
The agency also ordered the makers of the well-known drugs […]

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we love us some eszopiclone

Saturday 5 May 2007 | I like a cookie

Lunesta? is the freaking bomb. I slept from midnight to an unprecedented SIX-THIRTY. When I woke to Pye draped over me purring, and opened my eyes reluctantly and saw LIGHT COMING THROUGH THE WINDOW instead of stygian gloom, my little heart leapt for joy. Yeah there’s a taste like aluminium foil in my mouth, and […]

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friday refrain · before the ft. worth blues

Friday 4 May 2007 | I like a cookie

for the sake of the song
why does she sing her sad songs for me
I’m not the one
to tenderly bring her soft sympathy
I’ve just begun
to see my way clear and it’s plain
if I stop I will fall
I can lay down a tear for her pain
just a tear and that’s all
what does she want me to […]

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great (or anyway modest) failure

Friday 4 May 2007 | 2 cookies in the jar

A few days ago, I heard from the fourth of my female friends, all in my Zen “peer group,” that she’s requested and been approved for ordination. And it’s funny—in the wedding-like excitement of an upcoming ordination, not one of the four, all normally excruciatingly sensitive women, has offered what the Group Therapist calls level-three […]

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letter to mandarin

Friday 4 May 2007 | I like a cookie

Hey peanut,
Congrats again—you must be over the moon! Tempting indeed to insert a random giraffe, no? [Into her nearly finished MSW thesis, in the hopes that no one will notice.] My fingers are crossed that your editor is a sharp one with a keen eye for M$Word formatting issues. (In fact my first SF freelance […]

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and what was I thinking when I ordered coral pink

Friday 4 May 2007 | someone left a cookie


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