Video on the internet kind of stresses me out sometimes. I have to stop everything else I'm doing and watch it. But the title of this one - "How To Be Alone" - caught my eye when someone I know posted it on Facebook, and so I stopped what I was doing and spent four and a half minutes watching it. It is a lovely piece of poetry.

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I have to tell you that I'm not really a big poetry fan. There are a few poems I like, but I'm unlikely to go reading poetry for fun and entertainment. I have an idea for an LJ entry, but it wasn't something I could write at work (and at home, I've been voraciously devouring the book that sparked it). What I could do at work was look up the poem I ( Read more... )