When You are Old 
by William Butler Yeats

When you are old and gray and full of sleep 
     And nodding by the fire, take down this book, 
     And slowly read, and dream of the soft look 
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

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Life Story

by Tennessee Williams
After you've been to bed together for the first time,
without the advantage or disadvantage of any prior acquaintance,
the other party very often says to you,
Tell me about yourself, I want to know all about you,
what's your story? And you think maybe they really and truly do

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it's strange, because i just want to be with chris.  i just want it to work.  but something is irreparable.  in some fundamental way, we are simply not compatible people.  in many ways, he is just a child.  but anyways, he's moving back to north port.  his anxiety and panic attacks are just getting worse and worse.  doctors can't find anything to ( Read more... )

the conflict in gaza has reached sickening proportions.  what is happening there is not warfare, it is a massacre of civilians.
how many deaths have hamas wrought from their rockets?  i've found a few sources that say that, as of April 27, 2008, a total of 13 Israelis have been killed by Qassam rockets since the attacks started in 2001.
this seems to ( Read more... )

my best friend moves to holland in two days ( Read more... )

for the first time in my life, or at least since i've been old enough to understand, i love my president.  i am proud to be an american (during my time in europe, i hoped people would assume i was british, french, czech, canadian, anything but american.).  i have developed a political consciousness and a daily routine of reading the news.
i have ( Read more... )

my life as of late ( Read more... )

i was riding my bike on wednesday afternoon and got hit by a car!
i went flying and landed on my head and was knocked unconscious and got a concussion!
i got to ride in an ambulance!
it was all pretty scary at the time, but i honestly got by with the least serious injury possible, really.  i have a nice little lump on my upper left forehead, ( Read more... )

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every moment of my new relationship has felt like a film: kissing on a rooftop, candlelit showers, bike rides and picnics and sunsets over prairies, even spin the bottle and pretending it's our first kiss.  infatuated and enamored and it's all intoxicating.  it happened so quickly that it hardly seems real ( Read more... )