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adjusting
still wonders what it takes to be happy
depressed?
backpack
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| WHO AM I (Lili Frost)
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Today, on the street
In the metro,
It's a melancholy day
No one speaks
Passing you by
Wondering why
Today, like any day
Rolled out of bed
Talked on the telephone
Went to the doctor, she said
You're OK
Still I wonder
Who am I
Today in the air
On the water
Ships pass you by
Clouds fantasize
Dragging shapes across the sky
Wondering why
Who am I
Clarion crows for the courtsmans brigade
Centuries before on this very stage
Gypsies serenade, passed through DNA
And so it found its way
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Sunday, February 18, 2007
@10:43 am
Hopeless-Margaret Atwood
"Today I seem to myself merely sentimental, at the window, looking out at the slush and worrying about the Book of Job. Religion, the burnt heart gripped in its ritual thorns, the chest wall open like a display window. Why are there hookworms? Why are there explosions, on the road, in the wrists, blood hazing the atmosphere?
Forget about tough and competent, I can pour boiling lead from the battlements with one hand, I'm used to it by now, I hardly even look at the scorched faces down there, open mouths with their needle pointed weasel teeth and all those enraged flags waving around. That's what I do on weekdays, during invasions but today is Sunday and I'm hopeless, we're hopeless. Hope needs the future tense, which only make you greedy and a hoarder: the future is what you save up for but like thunder it's only an echo, a reverse dream. Hope is when you expect something more, and what more is there?
Outside, the plague bulges, slops over, flows down the streets and so we stay here, holding on and holding on, to the one small thing which is not yet withereing, not yet marked for death, this armful of words, together, with. This is as good as it gets, nothing can be better and so there's nothing to hope for, but I do it anyway. In the distance, beyond the war in the midground, there's a river, and some willows, in sunlight, and some hills."
THAT'S IT, YOU!!
WE'RE IT.
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