A haiku (courtesy of the Twitter bot @nythaikus):
So I will have a
chocolate and I will be
better tomorrow
I think all I'm going to say is that I can relate entirely too well to today's post (and I'm not telling which parts... 😆 )
SONG: All It Would Take by Semisonic (thanks to Judi for the heads-up to this amazing song, and band... 💖)
POEM: Fireflies by Cecilia Woloch
And these are my vices:
impatience, bad temper, wine,
the more than occasional cigarette,
an almost unquenchable thirst to be kissed,
a hunger that isn't hunger
but something like fear, a staunching of dread
and a taste for bitter gossip
of those who've wronged me—for bitterness—
and flirting with strangers and saying sweetheart
to children whose names I don't even know
and driving too fast and not being Buddhist
enough to let insects live in my house
or those cute little toylike mice
whose soft grey bodies in sticky traps
I carry, lifeless, out to the trash
and that I sometimes prefer the company of a book
to a human being, and humming
and living inside my head
and how as a girl I trailed a slow-hipped aunt
at twilight across the lawn
and learned to catch fireflies in my hands,
to smear their sticky, still-pulsing flickering
onto my fingers and earlobes like jewels.
QUOTE: "The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little." ~ Thomas Merton
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