Love5

Falling

or

Holy Crap Batman, where the f did you come from?!

for my starlet bestie's birthday

you know who you are you beautiful extraordinary inspiring lady...

I’m smitten like a kitten in mittens

I’m in love like a dove high above

I’m dolled up like a pup in a cup

I’m a sparrow hit by bow and arrow

I’m a dork who says hi with a spork

I’m a nerd who forgets the key word

I’m the last softball pick who accepts with a kick

I’m the cater waiter thinking of later.

I’m lost amid mundane conversation

I’m distracted by idyllic imagination

I’m inspired, I’m tired, but still morning wired

I’m besotted by keen admiration.

I’m out like a drag queen at pride

I’m a pirate swinging through at high tide

I’m the intrepid wonder singing along with the thunder

I’m an actress’ heart about to nail the change-your-life part.

I’m hungry but satiated, immune to petty albeit normal conflict

I’m un-bother-ably chill, but still abnormally quick

I’m  ready to dance, run or swim to get close to you

I’m ready it seems for a love that is true

you.

i mean i'm not even a dog person.  but like...come on!!!  

Luddite Rant

I am a child stuck in the middle of the technological revolution. Straddling the societal/cultural storm that change incurs. 

Cue music. It’s quite a ride.

Oh please oh please don’t forget how to write

For the love of all, embrace your inner erudite

Recall right in this moment when just one word

Flipped an average thought to one that’s absurd

Remember when a single perfectly prosed sentence

kindled love, grief, hate, or in some, repentance

Recall a time when the intelligent pen

Had the utmost respect of women and men

When nothing else could covey the perfect illusion

Of a culture’s zeitgeist, of an era’s delusion

Of the look of a god, of the guts of a thief

Of some impending woe told in whole but in brief

Of a story ever known but rewritten anew

Of ubiquitous truth, of outrageous sinew

But why this call to arms, or rather call to the pen?

Why this beacon to commemorate a literary when?

Well, right now, I’m rather critical of new modes of connection…

I think they’re somehow evading open honest real reflection.

I think the avalanche of a mass techno/media obsession

Is skewing our potential of unreserved unconditional confession

We’ve seen it all before cause it’s catalogued (sans Dewey decimal) somewhere

And it’s paralyzing people from observing real detail

They compare their own experience regardless of desire to or not

And I just sense a loss, that there’s something missing in this plot

That our future will be a mirage on the internet, a web of math and steel

Leaving us evolving but having missed some essential maturation meal

So now am I just ranting? have I made the point already…?

That our breadth of knowledge doesn’t make us smarter…

it makes us petty.

That while humanity may be evolving, it’s also getting tough and jaded

We forget how to fall in love cause we’ve seen it live!…and faded.

We think we’re batshit crazy from emotion, from intuitive insinuation

But WE DON’T KNOW the outcomes.  That’s the job of REAL creation.

Oh

Sometimes I’ve got to take a step back and forget the whizzing breeze

Cause the electronic strangle hold makes me start to wheeze

I cannot will not text to you the meanings in my head

I cannot will not show to you my whole self via profile spread.

Instead I choose to write to all, I appeal with this odd old system

To express the spectrum of my life, and hope for communal wisdom.

how long have you spent debating something via text message? 

honestly, how long? 

Cathy says AAACK!

i love vonnegut. 

one of my all time favorite writers that i've been privy to.

if i ever have a boy child. i'm naming him kurt.  or Vonney. Von?

something tells me he'd get this intellectual squirming

Pop appreciation

Me?

The dazzling styles of imperfection,

That’s my choice, my literary selection.

I don’t really care for structural idealism,

Cause I survive on intellectual atheism.

Not that I don’t like what’s near supreme,

But I think it says more to be crème de la creamJ

It’s not that I hate on whatever the hoards approve of,

but rather I think the hoard itself is a myth.

It’s not that I hate or don’t drink the kool-aid,

but it’s rather I appreciate glitter with pithJ

oh how i love them...

    Marina and the Diamonds/ Lady Gaga   

                                                   Katy Perry / Ke$ha

 glitter or stars...

 or the surface of a humback whale...

 or the surface of a plastic cup?

Prideful Susan Sings!

Prideful Susan hated losin’

So she never played the game

She sat at home eating provolone

Each day played out the same.

Until one day when the rain pitter patter

Summoned her curiosity with its clatter

She wanted to run out and didn’t’ worry

About getting soaked so she ran in a hurray

She jumped into puddles

She danced in the mud

She slip sloppy slided into some unknown crud

She started to sing to the rain with bravado

She sang deep and slow, she sang high with staccato

She sang out without fear

Applauded by the vast falling crowd

Of little rain droplets

All of whom were wowed.

They oohed and they ahhed

Slish sloshing in her ears

She really loved this rain singing

She loved the wet watery cheers

That’s when Molly, her neighbor

Came out to join in

And prideful Susan saw

She had a joyful let’s-sing-together grin

Susan was frozen there in the rain with fear

She didn’t know what to do!

What if Molly was the best singer in the world!

What if she’s better than you!

But before Susan could run away

Before she could make her mad dash

Molly grabbed her hand and started to sing

And their voices did the opposite of clash!

The two it seems could harmonize

And suddenly they’d made up a special song

The rain was truly overjoyed

At how the two girls got along!

And Susan could barely remember

The last time that she’d gone out

She was so much more accustomed

To her sitting on the sidelines safe-from-losin pout.

But her smile was taking over

Cause it was far more FUN to play

Than to stay dry inside eating cheese

Thinking you know the better way.

That day Susan met her very best friend

She learned she loved to sing

She learned that sometimes you gotta play in the rain

To know what life can bring!

Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain

i love love love the rain. 

Life lessons?

What would it be like to be Jon Stewart…

To be like Steven Colbert?

What would it be like to be Batman.

To have a home with a secret lair!?

What would it be like to be president?

What would it be like to be cool?

What would it be like to be decadent

And never feel like a fool?

I think it may always be complicated

No matter who or what you are.

But I know we all want a limo

Even when we’ve got a town car.

We strive for more than we’ve got

Call it ambition or greed or desire

We look to those we want to be

To those we respect and admire

But we rarely get the full story

And maybe that is fine and ok

Cause great things are often inspired

From the statue and not from the clay

Stewart: saving our gotham city from crazy bad jokers. 

Michelangelo's David @ the Ufizzi in Florence.

Can you imagine?...that was once just a giant rock...

  "Michelangelo's intention was that the finished David would serve as more than just a fierce protector of the city. While the figure is menacing, there is no indication that he is fueled by aggression. There exists no tension in his considerable arms or legs. Indeed, the political symbolism of the work conveys a warning to fellow Florentines that "Whoever governed Florence should govern justly and defend it bravely...eyes watchful...." The David embodies the Renaissance sensibility of force tempered by intellect."

FORCE TEMPERED BY INTELLECT!!!! AHHHHH ok onward...

So look to the tycoons and the moguls

look up to the stars, the great paragons

look up to minds and hearts of our era

look up to them before POOF they're gone

But in your awesome veneration, 

remember right now to recall 

that they too once came from nothing

that they too once were just small. 

that they too once ate baby food 

that they cried at their first failure, 

that they questioned all their motives 

assessed their lives like neurotic tailors.

remember we're all just atoms

racing around in distress

and in a way we're inescapably the same

no matter the height of success.

home of the neurotic tailor:)

Epiphany

If you have an epiphany every day,

Do you write it down? Yay or Nay?

Because it’s sense within your mind

May in fact change from time to time.

ok so...the talmud is a book of ORAL law...hmmm.

my theoretical picture book might show a kid with a broken leg looking at their superman costume.

Proverb 1- naked ambition

I know that I want far more than what I get,

Maybe I need to want it more than I have yet.

too much? only for proverbs...

clearly in my theoretical picture book it will be a picture of a little gal climbing a hill or something resembling the little engine that could...but for now...we get to see something just a little more real...a little more risque...i think you can handle it.