Aug 14, 2007 16:59
"When you've fallen on the highway
And you're lying in the rain,
And they ask you how you're doing.
Of course you say you can't complain.
If you're squeezed for information,
That's when you've got to play it dumb;
You just say you're out there waiting
For the miracle, for the miracle to come."
-- "Waiting for the Miracle" - Leonard Cohen
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"A Sad Child" by Margaret Atwood
You're sad because you're sad.
It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.
Go see a shrink or take a pill,
or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll
you need to sleep.
Well, all children are sad
but some get over it.
Count your blessings. Better than that,
buy a hat. Buy a coat or pet.
Take up dancing to forget.
Forget what?
Your sadness, your shadow,
whatever it was that was done to you
the day of the lawn party
when you came inside flushed with the sun,
your mouth sulky with sugar,
in your new dress with the ribbon
and the ice-cream smear,
and said to yourself in the bathroom,
I am not the favorite child.
My darling, when it comes
right down to it
and the light fails and the fog rolls in
and you're trapped in your overturned body
under a blanket or burning car,
and the red flame is seeping out of you
and igniting the tarmac beside you head
or else the floor, or else the pillow,
none of us is;
or else we all are.
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Do you know the Cohen song? If not I'll send it to you.
*sigh*
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I have some Leonard Cohen stuff, but I'm not sure if I have this one. I would welcome it. :)
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Am I what others percieve me to be, to me? Or am I what I think I am to them?
Am I sad because of what they see in me or what I see in myself?
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