i don't want to get lost in the ocean

[rainjewel]

What's up INTERNETZ? I know, I'm never around here anymore. I sucky suck.

stumphed is here, which is AWESOME. It sort of sucks because I am of the stressed right now but we are having some bitchin' fun despite my stress levels. I showed her what a cattle ranches, combines, and trees are. It's awesome

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[rainjewel]

The cool thing is that he was totally born on my birthday too! But, you know, a long time before me. The real cool thing is that he wrote a poem about it and it's fabulous:

May 24, 1980

I have braved, for want of wild beasts, steel cages,
carved my term and nickname on bunks and rafters,
lived by the sea, flashed aces in an oasis,
dined with the-devil-knows-whom, in tails, on truffles.
From the height of a glacier I beheld half a world, the earthly
width. Twice have drowned, thrice let knives rake my nitty-gritty.
Quit the country the bore and nursed me.
Those who forgot me would make a city.
I have waded the steppes that saw yelling Huns in saddles,
worn the clothes nowadays back in fashion in every quarter,
planted rye, tarred the roofs of pigsties and stables,
guzzled everything save dry water.
I've admitted the sentries' third eye into my wet and foul
dreams. Munched the bread of exile; it's stale and warty.
Granted my lungs all sounds except the howl;
switched to a whisper. Now I am forty.
What should I say about my life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
Broken eggs make me grieve; the omelet, though, makes me vomit.
Yet until brown clay has been rammed down my larynx,
only gratitude will be gushing from it.

Joseph Brodsky

[lady_ganesh]

Wow.

[rainjewel]

I hear you. We read that aloud in my advance poetry class a few weeks ago and when it was done I just said, "You know, why don't we all just go home? I mean, really, why are we even here when this man wrote /that/?"