If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, pray-er, a magic bean buyer…
If you’re a pretender, come sit by the fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!
“Invitation,” Shel Silverstein
In graduate school, this “invitation” of Silverstein’s was posted on my office door. As my peers […]
Poem written after seeing “Star Wars” yesterday.
K.
frequent flickering
in front of us, a Jedi
maybe 10-years-old
his plastic lightsaber
falling back loosely
into its covering
much to his annoyance
behind us
a mother hording seats
spreading out
pieces of her purse
like each chair
was a stubborn child
wanting a toy distraction
the audience applauds
without reserve
responds without
a fourth wall
it is more than movie
to some of them
more like what they […]
Amen.
Yes, I know it was a critical “darling” and that the little moppet of a lead actress was nominated for an Emmy or a Grammy or a Tony or some such nonsense, but, really, I’m just damn happy that’s one less person pretending they are talking to God.
Michael Landon’s dead and Della Reese’s career […]
Looks like I’ll be sharing a flat with one other girl—a friggin’ Canadian, SWEET—in Hamada, Japan. That’s a small fishing port (49,000 people) on the West coast of Honshu (shimane prefecture) on the sea of Japan (close to South Korea).
Here’s a big map (look under Hiroshima; where the second “h” hits the map, that’s Hamada):
http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/country/japan.html
Address:
Kathleen […]
My official day of flight is June 1. That’s when I head into Osaka.
I assume, by now, most of you know I’m going to Japan. Either that, or you have absolutely no damn idea why I directed you to this website.
So, for those people: Ummm, SURPRISE. I’m moving to Japan.
But, I’m hoping to keep […]