I'll Be Your Avalanche

[i_burn_barns]

One Art
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing ins't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

Elizabeth Bishop

This week in recap:
-Florida (Tallahassee & Jacksonville beach)
-Atlanta (Masq & Tech)
-shopping (new shirts, new jeans, new flipflops, hooray!)
-Deux Ex: The Invisible War, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Sims 2: University
-homework (lots)
-buzz-cut Natalie Portman
-Mint Oreo & Thin Mint ice cream
-Boondock Saints: $5
-this poem, this coincidence (imissedyou), 3 hours
-back in Athens, getting ready for the bumrush (April)