tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26364786700128316192024-03-12T20:55:31.127-07:00The Lady of Green OriginThe Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.comBlogger304125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-16084549423915262122014-12-26T11:41:00.001-08:002014-12-26T11:41:15.679-08:00<div>
there's a picture of sunflowers, my favorite</div>
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by far. one </div>
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leans apart from the bunch, rests</div>
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it's head on the wooden fence.</div>
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in my mind's eye, </div>
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a visible sigh in it's face</div>
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<br /></div>
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it's posture affects --</div>
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and though time accelerates, </div>
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there is still gold in the lines of my face,</div>
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some days the light catches</div>
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<br /></div>
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and warmth Ihold in my pockets</div>
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for days like today, I drizzle it on my tongue. </div>
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<br /></div>
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&my insides are wrapped in dusty glow</div>
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from eons before</div>
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I began to wilt</div>
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The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-34839162952368697142014-12-10T08:56:00.001-08:002014-12-10T08:56:18.087-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px;">“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” -- </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px;">Jonathan Safran Foer, </span><i style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close</i>The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-52095022032497750852014-12-05T13:58:00.000-08:002014-12-17T07:40:52.503-08:00for as much as I want to be wanted , I want more<br />
your cradling arms, your<br />
pushagainst, small brush in passing<br />
that sends a warmth crawling up my neck<br />
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as much as I am young & new<br />
and pink and yellow just as bright as<br />
a daisy! sometimes<br />
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I long, too<br />
for the softness of longevity<br />
like wind on my cheek, you<br />
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are almost all light, sometimes, I never<br />
expected--<br />
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somedays, I'm sure the hue of your skin is<br />
all filter, and I am just romanticizing,<br />
as always<br />
<br />
but the red in your beard is all the harshness in the world, sometimes.<br />
and the sound of your laughter fills my head, echoes as if this small room<br />
were an abandoned cathedral and<br />
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your voice<br />
the first prayer heard in a hundred years.<br />
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<br />The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-82305273344787378662014-11-24T10:44:00.002-08:002014-11-24T10:44:56.314-08:00At times, I forget to utilize my patience.<br />
And it costs much more than a passing moment of my discomfort.<br />
It costs peace and amiability in relationships. It can sometimes cost entire relationships.<br />
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I have to deal. I am learning how to deal.<br />
<br />The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-86289260927766410832014-11-13T13:50:00.004-08:002014-11-13T13:50:44.161-08:00Blue Eye by Jacob Lange<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">I have love for you</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Rooted in my jawbone</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Your secret perfume</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Convection heat in a back seat</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">I want your thin fingers</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Tangled in the web of my ribs</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">I want to lose you</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">In the honeycombed purple layers of my heart tissue</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">I will cradle your head on my sternum</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Letting my lungs do the work</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">If only </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Your elbows were not so sharp</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Then I would crave the dig of your fingernails</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Your pastures of hair</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">The butterfly tremble of your lips</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Speechless- words no longer hold the weight</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">My tongue on the novel curves of your sigh</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Tasting the twenty summers of your growth</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Trembling due to lack of oxygen</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Trembling at the onset of lust</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">The kneading want of knuckle bones </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Drawing me ever closer to the colors of light </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Static in the stereo of the </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Cerebral cortex </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Bunched nerves </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Shocked into submission </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">By your bleached bone canines</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Open and breathe </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">The quick pinch endocrine valves </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Releasing steam </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Drape me with your skin</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Wrap me up in your pulsing warm veins</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">I bleed blue </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">On every day of the week </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">I am deafened</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">By the rage of your heartbeat </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">I am stricken dumb </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">The symphony of your eyelids</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Swelling in my chest a familiar lust</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">The wind from your eyelashes </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Could blow us out of this winter </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">And right into spring </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">All the days of the year</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">I bleed blue</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">The dedication of your palm </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">On my cheek</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Warms me like a leaf in sunlight</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Peel me layer from layer</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">You will find no lies in between the pages</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">I am your machine</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Waiting to be properly lubricated</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">I cannot wait for our first day under the sun</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">I can't wait to get you out of the fluorescent lights</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Of the Assembly line </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">We will journey together to forgotten realms</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">And sleep beneath the strange constellations</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">This is one of those things that will always make me cry. </span>The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-67702922862436373322014-11-12T12:54:00.002-08:002014-11-12T12:55:10.552-08:00I think I'd like apprentice a successful sociopath.The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-63391946830035963102014-11-12T12:32:00.000-08:002014-11-12T12:32:36.269-08:00I caught myself thinking, 'I hope you died in the bathroom' <div>
when you didn't come back for a few extra minutes. </div>
The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-57045441830677004032014-10-28T11:24:00.000-07:002014-10-28T11:24:39.183-07:00peace, come<i>I can't blame anyone for not looking after myself </i><br />
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<i>and I can't look after everyone else. </i></div>
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The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-87267184680261001212014-10-24T10:58:00.001-07:002014-10-24T10:58:41.829-07:00You're difficult to romanticize, I think <div>
that's a good thing. You're difficult to </div>
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filter, to soften, add a couple 'meaningful' words and </div>
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I don't know (mostly because I don't know any</div>
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thing ) if that's a good </div>
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something for me or </div>
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if it's a spinning top and what if </div>
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I fall ? </div>
The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-9706019224095955382014-10-24T10:54:00.001-07:002014-10-24T10:54:21.432-07:00B - I hope you wear red tomorrow. Soon, at least. <div>
I'm starting to yearn for your fire. </div>
The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-18873517613098662912014-10-15T05:59:00.002-07:002014-10-15T06:00:16.840-07:00As I was leaving this morning --<br />
"And..what did I do to deserve you?"The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-12815325325924393982014-10-07T06:42:00.000-07:002014-10-09T14:46:53.805-07:00like to think I have a little moon<br />
behind my lips, that you<br />
could reach in & pluck<br />
<br />
and in your eyes, reflecting.<br />
the rare bit of light that slips through<br />
the blankets we cover the windows<br />
with<br />
<br />
I never know whether to look away<br />
or to let them fade <br />
in slow- motion<br />
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<br />The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-25811757233727122682014-10-02T15:15:00.001-07:002014-10-02T15:15:29.142-07:00<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 20.2749996185303px; padding: 0px; width: 466.4375px;">
Driving, I scan the sleepy city for a diner I’ve never been to. The radio seems to sing, “better versions of you are being born right now.”</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Eddy Habib</em></div>
The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-61184471808073466942014-10-02T12:25:00.000-07:002014-10-02T12:25:10.622-07:00Born in a singular quantity, I have been divided ever since.The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-70064487193739990542014-10-02T06:43:00.003-07:002014-10-02T06:43:49.780-07:00"Some old people are young, and some young people are old. It's all in the roll of the dice."The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-82351504571854056002014-10-01T07:30:00.002-07:002014-10-01T07:30:30.297-07:00Aug 31st 2013<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">always walking sideways can you imagine? </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">living sideways, living with your head tilted in wonder </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">living</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">fake posture like posterboard, folding in on oneself</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">communicate by bits of conversation, the scraps left like little diamonds</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">scattering the floor - pick one up, you might strike it rich (!)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">follow nothing but what there is in front of you, do not look left </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">do not look right. shake your body like a leaf and let that feeling roll off in beads, </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">turn green in the morning sunlight, let it feed you.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">open your eyes, deep breaths like the wind in a cave. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">find your fingers fascinating as they curl and uncurl themselves, </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">you are alive! you are so pink, so yellow, so dark and light and beautiful </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">and strange that it can stupefy the senses at times.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">weird how so many people can feel the same feeling and feel all </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">alone in it. funny, even. hilarious that we all have one another to lean on and yet </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">we stand erect as if we were man-made instead of tiny pieces of the universe, tiny pieces of </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">energy and dust held together by our own collective will. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">it's funny how we don't realize how beautiful we are.</span>The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-32938172419411723592014-09-23T07:24:00.001-07:002014-09-23T07:24:40.448-07:00:3"You unreadable cat creature, you."The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-61367052701997986292014-09-09T10:24:00.000-07:002014-09-09T10:24:00.504-07:00it's such a *feeling*reaching to hold my hand when we<br />
cross the<br />
street.The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-14808731371625168912014-08-28T06:28:00.001-07:002014-08-28T06:28:17.485-07:00Harlem by Langston Hughes<div style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
What happens to a dream deferred?</div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
Does it dry up</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
like a raisin in the sun?</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
Or fester like a sore—</div>
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And then run?</div>
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Does it stink like rotten meat?</div>
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Or crust and sugar over—</div>
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like a syrupy sweet?</div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" />
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Maybe it just sags</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
like a heavy load.</div>
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<em>Or does it explode?</em></div>
The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-46104842234707850442014-08-27T07:46:00.001-07:002014-08-27T07:46:36.983-07:00"Are you mad at me or something?"<br />
"Nah, I'm just not a big fan in general."<br />
<br />The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-13328306591965447492014-08-26T06:28:00.001-07:002014-08-26T06:28:51.296-07:00compliment<br /><span class="poemtext" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">I remember the first time<br />you named me <em>“Good morning.”</em><br /><br />And how, the night before,<br />you considered my ceiling,<br />where the passing cars outside<br />the passing cars outside<br />the passing cars outside<br />cast their shadows and liquid lights<br />through the slats of my blinds.<br /><br />You said: <em>“Hey Romeo--<br />your CD player is skipping again...<br />but your ceiling’s like fireworks for poor folks!”</em><br />And I liked that.<br /><br />I like the tall pauses you take<br />when you tell your nephews knock-knock jokes.<br />And I like your theory<br />that men and women’s shirts button on opposite sides<br />so that couples can get dressed facing each other<br />after making love.<br /><br />You seem to season your seasons,<br />your days, your time<br />with rhyme, not reason,<br />I’ve seen you. Daily. Nightly.<br />I’ve watched you housebreak a puppy<br />just by asking politely.<br /><br />And your remedy for insomnia?<br />Is to pile every pillow and blanket into the tub<br />and you nap there like you’re taking<br />a patchwork bath,<br />and I said once: <em>“Oh--I wish I had a PICTURE!”</em><br />and you said: <em>“Oh--I wish you and I had HOT SEX,<br />YOU gave ME a PEDICURE,<br />and then ELVES showed up at our doorstep,<br />with a PIZZA, to tell us JESUS just built a TREEHOUSE<br />in the backyard, and he’d like to meet us both,<br />so HOP IN HOTSHOT!”</em><br /><br />You’re weird,<br />with a capital “WE.”<br />And I’m grateful, I marvel,<br />you’ve helped me hammer<br />some of my worst manners into manhood,<br />but I still admit--I like the way your shorts fit,<br />and how, overall, you’d call me “smart,”<br />even though sometimes<br />I do really stupid shit.<br /><br />And I like how you giggle with your lips closed<br />like you’ve got a secret little moon in your mouth.<br /><br />But I’m not insisting you’re some kind of goddess,<br />(I know you’re suspicious of unspecific love poems).<br />You’re more like a sunflower,<br />growing in the courtyard of an old folks home--<br />you mean things to people on a daily basis,<br />and this petty poem won’t explain<br />just how “my favorite” your face is,<br />(but I wish I’d been your bathroom mirror<br />the day they took off your braces).<br /><br />You’re so pretty.<br /><br />You’re like a vivid video game<br />and I’m the idiot kid<br />just trying to get to your next level--<br />I like your right-shoulder angel,<br />Hell, I like your left-shoulder devil.<br />I admire the lively deeds you do.<br />So if you come through a doorway again,<br />in a thrift store poncho,<br />or a drop-dead evening gown,<br />twirling and asking:<br /><em>“Well, whaddya think?”</em><br />I’m gonna tell you:<br /><br /><em>“Shit howdy, Sunshine,<br />sit your fine self down!<br />If you’re looking for a compliment--<br /><br />I think you’ve come<br />to the right place.”</em></span>The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-71207089471281934712014-08-26T06:21:00.000-07:002014-08-26T06:21:02.737-07:00TELEMARKETER by Brett Garcia Myhren<span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">I'm reading on the couch</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">when she calls, asks for me by name.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">I smile at her scripted intimacy,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">imagine her cubicle with photos of pets,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">the long bend of light</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">on her lacquered nails.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">"Listen to this," I reply,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">"</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">David kissed the soft inner banks<br />of women’s thighs</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">"Pardon?"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">"Oh, there's more," I say, </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">"</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">Thighs like loamy earth<br />that cup the rivers, or lilies<br />blooming in rose and mint</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">"Is this a bad time for you, sir?"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">"Is it for you?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">Tell me something," I insist.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">"Tell me anything."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">A quiet unfolds between us</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">as though we'd spent our breath</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">on withering arguments</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">or lost it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">in the scented air of sweat.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">Finally she says,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">"I'm in Lincoln, Nebraska.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">Outside, leaves are turning</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;">in the cold."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #29303b; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.599998474121094px;"> </span>The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-10296284010857090752014-08-25T12:03:00.001-07:002014-08-25T12:03:21.221-07:00Bluebird by Charles Bukowski<div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 16.25px;">
there's a bluebird in my heart that<br />wants to get out<br />but I'm too tough for him,<br />I say, stay in there, I'm not going<br />to let anybody see<br />you.</div>
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there's a bluebird in my heart that<br />wants to get out<br />but I pur whiskey on him and inhale<br />cigarette smoke<br />and the whores and the bartenders<br />and the grocery clerks<br />never know that<br />he's<br />in there.</div>
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there's a bluebird in my heart that<br />wants to get out<br />but I'm too tough for him,<br />I say,<br />stay down, do you want to mess<br />me up?<br />you want to screw up the<br />works?<br />you want to blow my book sales in<br />Europe?</div>
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there's a bluebird in my heart that<br />wants to get out<br />but I'm too clever, I only let him out<br />at night sometimes<br />when everybody's asleep.<br />I say, I know that you're there,<br />so don't be<br />sad.<br />then I put him back,<br />but he's singing a little<br />in there, I haven't quite let him<br />die<br />and we sleep together like<br />that<br />with our<br />secret pact<br />and it's nice enough to<br />make a man<br />weep, but I don't<br />weep, do<br />you?</div>
The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-57208617284101739512014-08-25T11:20:00.001-07:002014-08-25T11:20:56.345-07:00Three Oddest WordS<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
When I pronounce the word Future,<br />the first syllable already belongs to the past.</div>
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When I pronounce the word Silence,<br />I destroy it.</div>
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When I pronounce the word Nothing,<br />I make something no nonbeing can hold.</div>
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The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2636478670012831619.post-87388533737705601692014-08-22T07:55:00.002-07:002014-08-22T07:55:25.391-07:00death and tacos by Nathanial Whittemore<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">Waiting in line at a taco stand for my number to be called</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">I started talking to a six-year-old kid kicking his little foot against</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">A curb and waiting for his dad to come out of the bathroom.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And he said, “Why do you cough so much?”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And I said, “Because I have cancer.”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And he said, “Bummer.”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And I said, “Yep.”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And he said, “Does it hurt?”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And I said, “Only when I breathe.”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And he said, “Why don’t you hold your breath?”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">And I puffed out my cheeks like Louis Armstrong and</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">Let him see it and held it for as long as I could</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">Before exploding into a hacking eruption of</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">Stupid sounds and saliva.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And he laughed.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And I coughed and laughed.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And he said, “Feel better?”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And I said, “A bit.”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">And I showed him how much better with my</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">Thumb and index finger. And pointed at a green thread</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">of mucous that had dribbled out onto my chin</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> He said, “Gross.” And wiping it off</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> I said, “Yep.”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And he said, “My granddaddy had cancer before he died on the hospital.”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And I said, “You mean in the hospital?”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And he said, “Yeah on the hospital.”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And I said, “Oh, yeah?”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And he said, “He used to give me candy all of the times I ever saw him.”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And I said, “Sorry kid, I don’t have any candy.”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And, deflated, he said, “Are you gonna die on the hospital?”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And I said, “You mean in the hospital?”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And he said, “Yea, are you gonna die on the hospital?”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And I said, “Probably.”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;"> And he said, “OK.”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">And, upon giving that gracious consent, the boy’s dad came out and</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">The boy said, “Well, bye!” And I said, “See ya.”</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">And he ran off.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">And, for a while, between the two of us,</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">Dying became so very ordinary, like candy or tacos or semantics,</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">And death itself suddenly just this obnoxious third-wheel</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">A pitiful nuisance with nothing better to do with his time</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">Than to tag along with me and this six-year-old kid.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">And I sat smiling in the sun and imagining death at the moment,</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">A sad sack of lonely-self slumped somewhere in the distance,</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.909804); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 32.29999923706055px;">As I waited for my number to come up.</span>The Lady of Green Originhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594544932519274661noreply@blogger.com0