"Lit (or: to the scientist I am not speaking to any more)"
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Don’t say you didn’t see this coming, Jason.

Don’t say you didn’t realize this would be my reaction
and that you never intended for me to get all worked up,
because if that were true, then you are dumber
than Lenny from Mice and Men, blinder than Oedipus
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ciLinafaith
10/31/2006 2:56 pm

• the world has moved since they gave us our names at birth, since kindergarten, since snot running unnoticed down from red noses, since going back and forth the swings to see who can go up higher, since puppy loves and puppy broken hearts, since blue skirts and long ribbons, since geometry and trigonometry.
  
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It's not fun to be always sober.

I am drunk and you are insane
tell me, who will lead us home?
How many times have I asked you not to drink so much
for I see no sober soul in town.
Come to the tavern my dearest and taste the wine of love
for the soul is joyous only in the company of lovers.
The tavern of love is your livelihood
your income and expenses, ( Read more... )

Say not in grief that she is no more
but say in thankfulness that she was
A death is not the extinguishing of a light,
but the putting out of the lamp
because the dawn has come.

-Rabindranath Tagore


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"To demand more than this would be strange..."

I got disoriented today - I was actually going on smoothly with work but when I had to meet up with one of my bosses downstairs, she said this and that and at some point, I wanted to tell her that it wouldn't kill her to appreciate me sometimes ( Read more... )

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We used to go to church together. Now that’s everything’s "in a state of upheaval," I went to church without him in tow. I sent him a message after, telling him that I wished he still goes with me and I imagine him shrugging as he sends me the reply: “I guess this is how things should be ( Read more... )