Here are eight red flags ( Read more... )

Or more accurately for this one partial stanza.

Marge Piercy

For Inez Garcia

You cannot smoke your honor, you cannot
show it to your caseworker, you cannot
pay it in the supermarket for a can of beans.
Like freedom it doesn't exist
unless you make it

Choose the highest bidder
was my answer
when they told me
I was up for sale

Schoolyard

Junior high style

Bullies have always
tried to buy
the better girls

But they failed

On keryx's LJ she brought up rules of attraction, or rules for dating. I posted the following ( Read more... )

Just received a Mother's Day MySpace message from The Artist Formerly. I <3 him, he is the oddest, most endearing Former ever ( Read more... )

A little later, I will be off to funnydyke's house to help her prep for a dinner party. funnydyke is amusing in her pre-party frenzy in that the feminist bad-ass turns into a total 1950's socialite. She frets hard core - and this despite every one of her occasions turning out sparkling every time. I like to think it is her Inner Morman showing. The same Inner ( Read more... )

Message from The Artist Formerly:

hey yo it is a happy new year to you dear fiend!
remember everybody is a star!
this means you!
love, your secret admirer.

My favorite Former.

This year does not distinguish itself except as the year I quit one job, was fired from another and then, in Goldilocksian fashion, found the one that feels just ( Read more... )

I had an intense dream about my girl G. last night/this morning. The kind where I woke up and thought she was still in the room waiting for me to finish my sentence.

I have a difficult relationship with her memory. I'd like to have a difficult relationship with her, but that's not possible. So we have a not-relationship. Defined by what it isn' ( Read more... )

I hate it when someone thinks they know me - my motivations, my points of reference, the map of my brain. Without asking questions and listening to the answers. Rather, divining what's me from scraps of things they come upon accidentally. There has to be words spoken, probing, to reach an understanding ( Read more... )

Love that's pure won't lead you astray,
Won't hold you back, won't mess up your day,
Won't pervert you, corrupt you with stupid wishes,
It don't make you envious, it don't make you suspicious.

Saw Factory Girl and aside from being in love with Sienna Miller's hair, I was incredibly amused that Bob and his lawyers insisted on some thin fiction to ( Read more... )