conversations with You

True Story.

So I am sitting here eating my angel hair when I decide to look up my future sofa online and check around for better prices, colors etc. because thriftyness is important in this global market economy. I see one that I like and go to check for the proper measurements on my Dream Living Room Diagram, the one that has been posted on the fridge the entire 11 months that was have lived here. But alas it is gone.

This is what ensued:

"Honey, have you seen my yellow Dream Living Room Diagram? It was on the fridge."

"I don't know; did it fall off?"

"Possibly; did you put it somewhere else?"

"Well, did you label it?"

(!?!) "No."

"Then it wasn't like a real thing right?"

"I mean, it had a giant diagram of our living room on it."
(I might have even doodled hearts in the top corner-don't judge.)

"If that fell then I would have thrown it out because that does not factor into what I consider to be my realm of real things."

What the F*&%?
Love you.

see how you fare...

take a grammar quiz today. see how you fare.
say nothing of my capitalization or i will banish you to the blog corner with a digital dunce cap.
as my mother says, "I will do it, young man. Beware."

happy punctuating,

the literate wor(l)d

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

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the crash that is the dance

Some nights the humanity of the subway is enough to make me cry, to make with pulse with the emotions of this city. It is unlikely other places to get onto a bus and feel the earnest, urging beat of other people, but in this place on this night it is what seems right in the world. The night is balmy and bright and I was lucky enough to spend the day in the company of people I just love and the heart of this city does not scare me tonight. I want only to be a part of it. To have city dirt in my hair and and an ache in my feet and the lightest dash of sweat across my back. It is a wholesome feeling-not at all like mom's oatmeal cookies, if my mother made oatmeal cookies-much more like a perfectly synchronized swimming routine between yourself and the tidal wave above you until you look up and let go and realize it the crash that is the beautiful dance.

Lady in the Street

I may be a lady in the street and a freak in the bed,
however, if you talk to me on the street,
like a freak, you will never get me in bed.
FYI.

a woman with secrets

If I am a woman with secrets does that mean I am no woman at all?

Some might say that it means I have come into my own. But why? Why is the lie more honest than the truth? Are we really that far removed from the truth as a whole that it has now fallen into the realm of the surreal? Is the latch onto truth with all its messiness is so intimidating we avoid it so completely? And why if the lies are not mine do I feel they affect my womanhood so completely?
Maybe it is the pain that has altered my womanhood-or that has made me a woman. I do not know-today I feel there are no answers, only questions. Let me know if you have any of either.