Friday, March 11, 2011
There has been a supreme lack of posting...
Well, I looked at my 2011 stats so far, and I am horribly dissapointed in myself. Counting this post, I've only done 34 posts this year. This is exceedingly lame, and I must do better over pain of lack of posting.
You know, I learned something this afternoon. I realized just what an amazingly HUGE Greek Mythology NERD I am. Why? Well, let's start with the main reason I have not been working on my novel: rather than writing about a fictional character that is named after a Greek goddess, but really has nothing whatsoever to do with said goddess (except with the whole returning-balance stuff), I'm looking through this AWESOME volume called "the Dictionary of Classical Mythology," (I cannot remember the author's name), and looking for every nymph I can find, writing down her name, and recording what she did (even if it's like, "mother of Obscure Heroine"). How many nymphs have I recorded so far (including the Mothers Of Obscure Heroines)? Well, I have no idea. I'm in the middle of the P's, and I have probably done... I don't know... 100, maybe? Something like that. The number is BIG.
Anyway, the second level of my Greek mythology obsession is that, after seeing "helped Odysseus in 'the Oddessy'" or "helped Obscure Greek Soldier Number Forty-Two in 'The Illiad'" approximately 780,000,000,000 times, I have finally decided that I would go ahead and get a translation of "the Illiad" to see what all these nymphs were up to.
And, for the record, it may just be the translation, or the fact that I'm only eight pages in, or the fact that it's an old edition and I'm third person to check this copy out since 1994, but there's NOTHING about how Achilles was dunked into the river Styx (who's a nymph as well) by Thetis (who's a NEREID).
It just says that Thetis was crying as she saw Achilles decide to have a short life with eternal glory or something.
So... yeah.
Anyhoo, I'm off, but I'll return later, when I'm done being killed by the SAT, not writing my novel, not doing push-ups, hiking, and sleeping so I won't die on the SAT.
Goodbye for now!
You know, I learned something this afternoon. I realized just what an amazingly HUGE Greek Mythology NERD I am. Why? Well, let's start with the main reason I have not been working on my novel: rather than writing about a fictional character that is named after a Greek goddess, but really has nothing whatsoever to do with said goddess (except with the whole returning-balance stuff), I'm looking through this AWESOME volume called "the Dictionary of Classical Mythology," (I cannot remember the author's name), and looking for every nymph I can find, writing down her name, and recording what she did (even if it's like, "mother of Obscure Heroine"). How many nymphs have I recorded so far (including the Mothers Of Obscure Heroines)? Well, I have no idea. I'm in the middle of the P's, and I have probably done... I don't know... 100, maybe? Something like that. The number is BIG.
Anyway, the second level of my Greek mythology obsession is that, after seeing "helped Odysseus in 'the Oddessy'" or "helped Obscure Greek Soldier Number Forty-Two in 'The Illiad'" approximately 780,000,000,000 times, I have finally decided that I would go ahead and get a translation of "the Illiad" to see what all these nymphs were up to.
And, for the record, it may just be the translation, or the fact that I'm only eight pages in, or the fact that it's an old edition and I'm third person to check this copy out since 1994, but there's NOTHING about how Achilles was dunked into the river Styx (who's a nymph as well) by Thetis (who's a NEREID).
It just says that Thetis was crying as she saw Achilles decide to have a short life with eternal glory or something.
So... yeah.
Anyhoo, I'm off, but I'll return later, when I'm done being killed by the SAT, not writing my novel, not doing push-ups, hiking, and sleeping so I won't die on the SAT.
Goodbye for now!
Lent: whatever day this is
Well, my Lenten Success Story (or lack thereof) is as follows:
Tuesday (not actually Lent yet): I decide I want to give up anything with more than 12 grams of sugar (this means artificial sugar... i.e., fruit does not count, fruit juice does; so does yogurt); to write at least six pages of my novel (about two thousand words); and to do at least forty or fifty push-ups a day.
Wednesday (first day of Lent): I keep my sugar under control; I do NOT meet the day's writing quota (though I am close); I don't even attempt my push-ups.
Thursday: after coming home from an SOL and an early release, I sit and watch TV for a few hours. I DO do push-ups in TKD; I write to meet Wednesday's quota; sugar remains under control. Added plus: I learn that girl scout cookies have an acceptable level of sugar intake, as long as I only have three (or seven, in the case of Trefoils... YAY FOR NO TOPPINGS ON COOKIES!).
Friday: No writing. No push-ups. No sugar. I'm now six pages behind schedule, and I made my most recent action scene irritatingly short... but, as the NaNoWriMo rules state (which I'm going to be applying here), the only editing I'm allowed to be doing is fixing a word or two to bump my word count AS I GO ALONG. This is another reason I'm doing it by hand - to make sure I only go back to check details about people.
Saturday (aka tomorrow): nothing is going to get done, except perhaps the MOST IMPORTANT TEST OF MY LIFE (my first SAT, which I am going to FAIL). I have to be there at 7:45 ON A WEEKEND, and then I'm going HIKING right after with venture crew. And then I'm babysitting.
I want to sleep tonight, but on the other hand, I'm not going to be able to write 24 pages on Sunday - I have IYAG, and all the homework that I didn't do on Saturday.
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't you just LOVE insanity?
Anyway, for all of you Christian peeps out there: what are YOU doing for Lent?
Tuesday (not actually Lent yet): I decide I want to give up anything with more than 12 grams of sugar (this means artificial sugar... i.e., fruit does not count, fruit juice does; so does yogurt); to write at least six pages of my novel (about two thousand words); and to do at least forty or fifty push-ups a day.
Wednesday (first day of Lent): I keep my sugar under control; I do NOT meet the day's writing quota (though I am close); I don't even attempt my push-ups.
Thursday: after coming home from an SOL and an early release, I sit and watch TV for a few hours. I DO do push-ups in TKD; I write to meet Wednesday's quota; sugar remains under control. Added plus: I learn that girl scout cookies have an acceptable level of sugar intake, as long as I only have three (or seven, in the case of Trefoils... YAY FOR NO TOPPINGS ON COOKIES!).
Friday: No writing. No push-ups. No sugar. I'm now six pages behind schedule, and I made my most recent action scene irritatingly short... but, as the NaNoWriMo rules state (which I'm going to be applying here), the only editing I'm allowed to be doing is fixing a word or two to bump my word count AS I GO ALONG. This is another reason I'm doing it by hand - to make sure I only go back to check details about people.
Saturday (aka tomorrow): nothing is going to get done, except perhaps the MOST IMPORTANT TEST OF MY LIFE (my first SAT, which I am going to FAIL). I have to be there at 7:45 ON A WEEKEND, and then I'm going HIKING right after with venture crew. And then I'm babysitting.
I want to sleep tonight, but on the other hand, I'm not going to be able to write 24 pages on Sunday - I have IYAG, and all the homework that I didn't do on Saturday.
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't you just LOVE insanity?
Anyway, for all of you Christian peeps out there: what are YOU doing for Lent?
Sunday, March 6, 2011
stuff and stuff
As Lent draws ever nearer, I have started thinking about what I want to give up. My parents and I are doing a 'money fast' with church, but that only lasts 21 days. I'm going to give up soda again as well; but in addition to that, I'm also (probably) going to do 40-50 pushups daily (if I can pull it off) and attempt to finish my NaNoWriMo novel. I haven't worked on it in a long time and I kind of want to finish it, because it would look good on college applications. Also, to say I actually wrote a novel.
And also so I can finish it and (maybe) send it to publishers. Maybe. I haven't gotten that far yet. I don't know whether I want to send it to publishers or not, mostly because, as I'm not familiar with the publishing business, I don't want to wind up being like, "YAY! I SOLD A NOVEL!!! Wait... I also just sold my soul/ imagination/ life/ rights/ etc... great... goodbye, life." But more on this when I actually finish the novel/ type it/ edit it/ actually get self-esteem enough to feel like selling it.
Plusses of selling/ publishing: if I sell it before senior year, I will most likely be able to a) get into every college I apply to and b) be able to afford tuition for a semester at NYU.
Minuses: a) multiple rejections, b) transferral of soul ownership.
And that's all for now.
And also so I can finish it and (maybe) send it to publishers. Maybe. I haven't gotten that far yet. I don't know whether I want to send it to publishers or not, mostly because, as I'm not familiar with the publishing business, I don't want to wind up being like, "YAY! I SOLD A NOVEL!!! Wait... I also just sold my soul/ imagination/ life/ rights/ etc... great... goodbye, life." But more on this when I actually finish the novel/ type it/ edit it/ actually get self-esteem enough to feel like selling it.
Plusses of selling/ publishing: if I sell it before senior year, I will most likely be able to a) get into every college I apply to and b) be able to afford tuition for a semester at NYU.
Minuses: a) multiple rejections, b) transferral of soul ownership.
And that's all for now.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Rangers, reading, and movies
I finished the Ranger's Apprentice: Book Three: the Icebound Land (FINALLY!) last night. I LOVE the ending, and I can't wait to get my hands on book four. However, this morning, instead of working on physics, I decided to put 'Ranger's Apprentice' into Google. And do you know what came up in the little 'support feed' or whatever it is? 'RANGER'S APPRENTICE MOVIE!' AAAHHH!!!
I mean, I'm kind of excited for this, because this is a good series for movies (despite the fact that, as of April, there will be ten books). At the same time, I am kind of scared for the movies, because, unlike with Harry Potter (when the first movie came out) and Lord of the Rings, I've read the first two books of Ranger's Apprentice about five million times, so I'll KNOW if the movie producers kill it in any way. I don't WANT them to kill it in any way, because the first book of Ranger's Apprentice is WONDERFUL, and filmmakers have a penchant for messing movies up majorly.
I seriously will have to get a group together and sue something if I find that they mess it up in any way. Something will get cut out and added in its place; Jenny, George, and Alyss will probably get pulled out and replaced with a trio of completely irrelevant people. The producers will probably give the masses the impression that Will and Horace are the only two wards that year, and the fans of the books will be forced to unite and sue them for supreme deviation.
Which WILL happen.
So please, Filmmakers, if you value your lives, do NOT mess these movies up. Please. For the sake of John Flanagan's son, for whom the books were written.
I mean, I'm kind of excited for this, because this is a good series for movies (despite the fact that, as of April, there will be ten books). At the same time, I am kind of scared for the movies, because, unlike with Harry Potter (when the first movie came out) and Lord of the Rings, I've read the first two books of Ranger's Apprentice about five million times, so I'll KNOW if the movie producers kill it in any way. I don't WANT them to kill it in any way, because the first book of Ranger's Apprentice is WONDERFUL, and filmmakers have a penchant for messing movies up majorly.
I seriously will have to get a group together and sue something if I find that they mess it up in any way. Something will get cut out and added in its place; Jenny, George, and Alyss will probably get pulled out and replaced with a trio of completely irrelevant people. The producers will probably give the masses the impression that Will and Horace are the only two wards that year, and the fans of the books will be forced to unite and sue them for supreme deviation.
Which WILL happen.
So please, Filmmakers, if you value your lives, do NOT mess these movies up. Please. For the sake of John Flanagan's son, for whom the books were written.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Wow... last day of the month...
Here I am again, blogging and such. I know that I haven't posted in a while. I have been reading a LOT, and also knitting, writing, and generally avoiding the computer for no evident reason except that I feel like it.
In other news, my mother wants me to drive to tae kwon do on Thursday. By myself. Alone. I have my license and the legal ability to drive on my own, but I don't know if I want to - I still have my doubts as to whether most people on the main road will come out alive if I'm driving on it without my mom to yell at me to slow down and stuff. I mean, I kind of want to drive alone, but at the same time, I think that the mortality age of humans in this area is going to go up by a lot if I do so at night on a crowded road that I have driven a lot. Just putting it out there.
In other news, I saw the Oscars for the first time last night. I didn't see all of it, thanks to these annoying things called 'school' and 'alarm clocks' and 'sleep.' But overall I think it was a really good show - especially because Anne Hathaway was hosting. James Franco, frankly, was kind of blah. I know most girls will say that he doesn't need to be as animated as Anne Hathaway because he's attractive, but come on. Anne Hathaway was kind of all over it, and James Franco was just like, "Yep. Anne's got it covered. I'm just gonna stand here and look pretty and let all the teenage girls at home scream their heads off."
That's all the rambling I have for now.
Bye!
In other news, my mother wants me to drive to tae kwon do on Thursday. By myself. Alone. I have my license and the legal ability to drive on my own, but I don't know if I want to - I still have my doubts as to whether most people on the main road will come out alive if I'm driving on it without my mom to yell at me to slow down and stuff. I mean, I kind of want to drive alone, but at the same time, I think that the mortality age of humans in this area is going to go up by a lot if I do so at night on a crowded road that I have driven a lot. Just putting it out there.
In other news, I saw the Oscars for the first time last night. I didn't see all of it, thanks to these annoying things called 'school' and 'alarm clocks' and 'sleep.' But overall I think it was a really good show - especially because Anne Hathaway was hosting. James Franco, frankly, was kind of blah. I know most girls will say that he doesn't need to be as animated as Anne Hathaway because he's attractive, but come on. Anne Hathaway was kind of all over it, and James Franco was just like, "Yep. Anne's got it covered. I'm just gonna stand here and look pretty and let all the teenage girls at home scream their heads off."
That's all the rambling I have for now.
Bye!
Thursday, February 24, 2011
craazy week
As evident by the title, this week has been kind of hectic. The only night that I didn't/ won't have anything to do was Monday. In a way it's kind of nice - it gives me the impression that I have a life.
Sunday was a party for a friend's birthday, Monday was free, Tuesday was Glee, yesterday I had a voice lesson and then went to an opera dress rehearsal with the chorus department (for Madame Butterfly... it was really good), tonight I'm babysitting, and tomorrow and Saturday are still in planning, but on one of those nights, I'm going to hang out with another friend and on the other I'm going to see a school play.
And in the mean time I'm going to do homework, read (a lot) and knit for an IYAG fundraiser, for which I'm immensely psyched. I haven't been bringing my knitting to school a lot, which makes me very sad, but the main reason for the lack of knitting is an increased about of reading.
I read on a different blog that the writer was trying to read 100 books in a year, and, despite the late start, I decided to do it, too. I think there's some sort of parent organization that has some rules and strictures and stuff about the 100 book year (i.e. a certain number has to be nonfiction, etc), but I haven't heard about it, so I'm just going to read like there is no tomorrow and hope that I make it.
And that's what I have today. :D
Sunday was a party for a friend's birthday, Monday was free, Tuesday was Glee, yesterday I had a voice lesson and then went to an opera dress rehearsal with the chorus department (for Madame Butterfly... it was really good), tonight I'm babysitting, and tomorrow and Saturday are still in planning, but on one of those nights, I'm going to hang out with another friend and on the other I'm going to see a school play.
And in the mean time I'm going to do homework, read (a lot) and knit for an IYAG fundraiser, for which I'm immensely psyched. I haven't been bringing my knitting to school a lot, which makes me very sad, but the main reason for the lack of knitting is an increased about of reading.
I read on a different blog that the writer was trying to read 100 books in a year, and, despite the late start, I decided to do it, too. I think there's some sort of parent organization that has some rules and strictures and stuff about the 100 book year (i.e. a certain number has to be nonfiction, etc), but I haven't heard about it, so I'm just going to read like there is no tomorrow and hope that I make it.
And that's what I have today. :D
Sunday, February 20, 2011
procrastination
Well, here I am. Procrastinating. That isn't really news; that's true. But still. Here I am.
I don't have school tomorrow; HOWEVER, I still have to wake up when my alarm goes off because I'm going on a college tour at Shenandoah University. It's not THAT far away, and I liked what I heard about it at the college fair in October; however, tomorrow is MONDAY. And it's a HOLIDAY. And I KNOW that is a BRILLIANT time to go on college tours, however much the tourist doesn't want to sacrifice his/ her free day to be there. But that doesn't really matter, does it? I'm probably going to be doing a lot of college tours over spring break, too. But more on that after this tour happens. And after the tours that I will undoubtedly be doing during spring break. But whatever.
The point is, I'm here, when I should be doing homework. And stuff.
In other news, the new youth minister was officially introduced in church today. She's really cool. She's obviously different from the other youth ministers that we've had in the past (due to the fact that she's not a white male), but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. We'll just have to wait and find out. I don't think that it will be a horrid thing, though, because she seems to be cool with organizing and helping run stuff, which is really nice.
And I really hope she's willing to do lock-ins. And also play sardines during said lock-ins. Out of the three lock-ins that I have been to in my time in the youth group, we played Sardines all of once.
It made me very sad.
Well, that one game of Sardines was really fun. But the fact that it was only one game was very depressing.
And now I'm going to do homework.
Probably.
Unless I procrastinate some more.
Which I don't want to do.
P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALLISON!
(it's her birthday today. I know she doesn't read the blog; however, I'm saying it anyway).
I don't have school tomorrow; HOWEVER, I still have to wake up when my alarm goes off because I'm going on a college tour at Shenandoah University. It's not THAT far away, and I liked what I heard about it at the college fair in October; however, tomorrow is MONDAY. And it's a HOLIDAY. And I KNOW that is a BRILLIANT time to go on college tours, however much the tourist doesn't want to sacrifice his/ her free day to be there. But that doesn't really matter, does it? I'm probably going to be doing a lot of college tours over spring break, too. But more on that after this tour happens. And after the tours that I will undoubtedly be doing during spring break. But whatever.
The point is, I'm here, when I should be doing homework. And stuff.
In other news, the new youth minister was officially introduced in church today. She's really cool. She's obviously different from the other youth ministers that we've had in the past (due to the fact that she's not a white male), but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. We'll just have to wait and find out. I don't think that it will be a horrid thing, though, because she seems to be cool with organizing and helping run stuff, which is really nice.
And I really hope she's willing to do lock-ins. And also play sardines during said lock-ins. Out of the three lock-ins that I have been to in my time in the youth group, we played Sardines all of once.
It made me very sad.
Well, that one game of Sardines was really fun. But the fact that it was only one game was very depressing.
And now I'm going to do homework.
Probably.
Unless I procrastinate some more.
Which I don't want to do.
P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALLISON!
(it's her birthday today. I know she doesn't read the blog; however, I'm saying it anyway).
Thursday, February 17, 2011
bridges and IYAG
Well, here I am again. I DID work on my bridge right when I got home, and then guess what happened? The defective support, whose top cracked two nights ago, decided that it would crack for good. Which majorly sucks. I was kind of expecting it to break, honestly, but it was still really annoying. I'm not TOTALLY back to square one - more like square eleven. Of thirty-two. Or something. I don't know.
Anyway, in other news, today in knitting club I received about ten knitted and crocheted bags to sell for an IYAG fundraiser. YAY!!! (IYAG = inter-faith youth action group = awesomeness) All I have to do is sew them together and then we'll be good. HOORAY!!!
Of course, I still have to make some of my own to sell, but that won't be too hard. I just have to take my knitting everywhere I go. Which isn't that hard, as I do that a lot anyway. I just have to work on stuff now. But that's not hard, as long as I don't have a lot of homework.
Anyhow, moving on with life, I do not have any more news for you today. Have a nice day, and come back tomorrow for a potential literary update! (I have actually no idea whether or not there will be a literary update. But come back anyway to see whether or not there is one).
Bye For Now!
Anyway, in other news, today in knitting club I received about ten knitted and crocheted bags to sell for an IYAG fundraiser. YAY!!! (IYAG = inter-faith youth action group = awesomeness) All I have to do is sew them together and then we'll be good. HOORAY!!!
Of course, I still have to make some of my own to sell, but that won't be too hard. I just have to take my knitting everywhere I go. Which isn't that hard, as I do that a lot anyway. I just have to work on stuff now. But that's not hard, as long as I don't have a lot of homework.
Anyhow, moving on with life, I do not have any more news for you today. Have a nice day, and come back tomorrow for a potential literary update! (I have actually no idea whether or not there will be a literary update. But come back anyway to see whether or not there is one).
Bye For Now!
bridges, boredom, and homework
As you probably know, we physics students have to make bridges that hold up five bricks, and our only materials are glue and balsa wood. One of my friends decided she would use Gorilla Glue (which is apparently this really super-strong super glue or something) to work on her bride. Well, if the fact that she can't get it off her skin is any indication, then her bridge will be able to hold the bricks simply because of the kind of glue that she used. She was apparently working on it last night, got the glue all over her hands, and hasn't been able to get it off since.
So, being the helpful friends that we are, three of us decided to try and come up with ideas to get the glue off her hands (here meaning that I Googled it).
In case anyone wants to know, you get Gorilla Glue off your hands by soaking it in warm water mixed with nail polish. Or something like that. There was definitely warm water involved.
Anyway, in other news, my bridge kind of sucks majorly. I'm not kidding. I'm going to have to start finishing the supports right when I get home if I want them to dry in time to get the three pieces glued together and put the midway supports in.
And if this doesn't make sense, then... well... there's a lot of gluing involved. But I'm not using Gorilla Glue (mostly because I've never heard of Gorilla Glue until today), I'm using wood glue. Which is awesome, but if you put gobs and gobs on whatever you're gluing, you're going to have to wait for a few days for it to dry. Which is what I may or may not have done on Saturday...
Anyway, the point is, my project will hopefully not suck and I will hopefully not have to write a five-page essay on classical bridge-building and why my bridge didn't hold up the bricks. If it doesn't hold up the bricks, I'm saying that I didn't do the supports right or something. Come to think of it, I probably didn't do the supports right. But whatever.
Yeah... the end.
So, being the helpful friends that we are, three of us decided to try and come up with ideas to get the glue off her hands (here meaning that I Googled it).
In case anyone wants to know, you get Gorilla Glue off your hands by soaking it in warm water mixed with nail polish. Or something like that. There was definitely warm water involved.
Anyway, in other news, my bridge kind of sucks majorly. I'm not kidding. I'm going to have to start finishing the supports right when I get home if I want them to dry in time to get the three pieces glued together and put the midway supports in.
And if this doesn't make sense, then... well... there's a lot of gluing involved. But I'm not using Gorilla Glue (mostly because I've never heard of Gorilla Glue until today), I'm using wood glue. Which is awesome, but if you put gobs and gobs on whatever you're gluing, you're going to have to wait for a few days for it to dry. Which is what I may or may not have done on Saturday...
Anyway, the point is, my project will hopefully not suck and I will hopefully not have to write a five-page essay on classical bridge-building and why my bridge didn't hold up the bricks. If it doesn't hold up the bricks, I'm saying that I didn't do the supports right or something. Come to think of it, I probably didn't do the supports right. But whatever.
Yeah... the end.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
NEWS!
I got an email today. Well, I got about twelve emails today, like I do pretty much every day, because colleges want me to go there and give them many thousands of dollars for it. But the email in question was one of the few that I recieved today that had nothing to do with college, money, school, or my current GPA - it was for church. And it was saying that they hired the person who came in a few weeks ago. YAY! She seems really cool, and we haven't had a youth minister since before school started (which kind of sucks). I think she'll be good - not only do we FINALLY have someone to help us organize stuff (because most authoritative places probably won't take teenagers seriously if we called them up to ask them about something), but she's the first youth minister that we've had in a while that's not (a) a white male and (b) named after someone in the Bible (namely, one of the Gospels). And apparently she majored in dancing in college and went to Duke to study Divinity. So yeah. YAY!!!
In other news, there are photos of the musical on Flickr if you want to see them. YAY!!! I didn't take them, but they're cool. And I'm in a few of them. I'm not sure whether that that's a good thing, some of the time... but whatever. That's all for now. BYE!
In other news, there are photos of the musical on Flickr if you want to see them. YAY!!! I didn't take them, but they're cool. And I'm in a few of them. I'm not sure whether that that's a good thing, some of the time... but whatever. That's all for now. BYE!
POETRY!
In Creative Writing, we have been doing a LOT of poetry. I stink at profound poetry. I stink at non-profound poetry. I really cannot do poetry while still retaining 98% of my sanity (unless it is a day when my sanity has already gone on hiatus. Then stuff SOMETIMES happens). Anyway, that being said, yesterday was a sanity-fleeing day, and so I wrote some poetry and it turned out okay. It was supposed to be derived from titles that we were given, so... yeah. HERE IT IS!
1
This be the verse
where I tell you why I'm here
This be the verse
where I say that I'm here
This be the verse
when I look back and sigh
This be the verse
when I bid you goodbye
2
They flee from me
those quiet memories
they flee
when I look back
I can no longer recall
what's the name of that tall
building in that courtyard
four years ago,
in Tikal?
They flee from me
those long, gentle days
they flee in the quiet
and in their own ways -
I remember Raymond
and Alex, and Lydia too -
but who was that other
friend that we knew?
3.
The summer day
I danced around the
back yard and ran
to swim in the pool -
that was a good day.
The summer day
we hiked up a mountain
we stood on a peak
we ate lunch with Webelos
and then,
once we returned to war,
it rained.
Again.
That summer day
when we wake before dawn
where we test our endurance
and the strength of our legs
where we sing Broadway
as the sun greets the world -
that will be fun.
4
The unknown citizen
is the citizen,
no matter how
the odds are averse,
and his fame long gone -
This citizen,
despite all of this,
will always save the world.
5
There's a certain slant of light
that catches the dust motes just so
the motes become fairies
and they dance to and fro
then their life is snuffed out
a few hours later
when the sun changes its angle
and the sky grows dark.
There's a certain slant of light
that brings the rainbows to the room
they dance with the fairies
and help the flowers bloom
but then the rainbows
go to their beds
as the sun changes its angle
and the night falls asleep.
6
Acquainted with the night
in the hours
pre-dawn
knowing that the
grumbling we make
will be overruled
by the BFFs of the night -
the choking lions -
the Howler Monkeys.
Our friend the night
he bids us adieu
as the monkeys cease
and we climb up a temple
and feel like Jedi
take a photo -
clouds cover the dawn.
SO yeah. HOORAY!
1
This be the verse
where I tell you why I'm here
This be the verse
where I say that I'm here
This be the verse
when I look back and sigh
This be the verse
when I bid you goodbye
2
They flee from me
those quiet memories
they flee
when I look back
I can no longer recall
what's the name of that tall
building in that courtyard
four years ago,
in Tikal?
They flee from me
those long, gentle days
they flee in the quiet
and in their own ways -
I remember Raymond
and Alex, and Lydia too -
but who was that other
friend that we knew?
3.
The summer day
I danced around the
back yard and ran
to swim in the pool -
that was a good day.
The summer day
we hiked up a mountain
we stood on a peak
we ate lunch with Webelos
and then,
once we returned to war,
it rained.
Again.
That summer day
when we wake before dawn
where we test our endurance
and the strength of our legs
where we sing Broadway
as the sun greets the world -
that will be fun.
4
The unknown citizen
is the citizen,
no matter how
the odds are averse,
and his fame long gone -
This citizen,
despite all of this,
will always save the world.
5
There's a certain slant of light
that catches the dust motes just so
the motes become fairies
and they dance to and fro
then their life is snuffed out
a few hours later
when the sun changes its angle
and the sky grows dark.
There's a certain slant of light
that brings the rainbows to the room
they dance with the fairies
and help the flowers bloom
but then the rainbows
go to their beds
as the sun changes its angle
and the night falls asleep.
6
Acquainted with the night
in the hours
pre-dawn
knowing that the
grumbling we make
will be overruled
by the BFFs of the night -
the choking lions -
the Howler Monkeys.
Our friend the night
he bids us adieu
as the monkeys cease
and we climb up a temple
and feel like Jedi
take a photo -
clouds cover the dawn.
SO yeah. HOORAY!
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