"Sights and Sounds Pull Me Back Down Another Year..."

...Yes, I am poetryspamming again. Well, I have just cleaned the entire kitchen in fifty-five minutes, which is my best time ever, and on Saturday I'll be all day on a train, and I need to cancel my appointment with Dr. Flailyhands and launder my blankets, and write a few letters and finish this story (I hate this story), and refill my prescriptions before I go because the last thing Manon needs is an unmedicated Soujin--I'm bad enough when I am medicated. The point is, time is limited and everything is relative, I have a missing fingernail and Good Poems Selected by Garrison Keillor, of all people, and I want to type some up because the book goes back to-morrow.

On the Strength of All Conviction and the Stamina of Love
Jennifer Michael Hecht

Sometimes I think
we could have gone on.
All of us. Trying. For-ever.

But they didn't fill
the desert with pyramids.
They just build some. Some.

They're not still out there,
building them now. Everyone,
everywhere, gets up, and goes home.

Yet we must not
diabolise time. Right?
We must not curse the passage of time.

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"If It Will Help My Sea Level Go Down..."

I haven't mentioned it or anything, but I've been doing a small fast for the last two weeks (it's only for two weeks). Nothing has gone wrong, but that's probably because it's not to make me lose weight. Any any rate, it's over Saturday.

Library to-morrow, and then I must come home and PACK. I laundered all my things, and sent my prescription in to-day to pick up to-morrow, and I remembered to cancel my appointment. I am amazing and wonderful, all right? Just because I did the things I meant to to-day. Also, I snuck out about an hour ago and taped coloured paper hearts to the interior of Mum's car, because she says to-morrow at work for her is going to be awful. So I thought maybe that would help, if just a little. Just the thought. Nothing practical.

Happy birthday, skyarma! Or at least LJ would have me believe so. I hope it was very lovely. ♥

Two days! Only two days.