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lil  ·  2908 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 7, 2016

On Not Taking One's Self Too Seriously

I occasionally pick up old journals for perspective. In one of my journals from 1990 I meet a guy who says, You're a candle in the sewer of life.

I've been called other things:

You're a lifeguard on the ocean of thought.

You're tumbleweed blowing through a dream.

and of course, to keep things in perspective my ex-husband said: Fuck you. You're an evil person. You ruined my life.

Of course later he took it back, regretted everything, and said he had been "bewitched" - but not by me.

eeep, got to run pubski. Leaving my beer half-drunk (rather than myself).





flac  ·  2908 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I dated someone briefly over the summer who fancied herself a poet, which was wildly entertaining for me. Hands-down the best thing ever written about me is "you rode your 21 speed bicycle/effortlessly/right into my heart".

_refugee_  ·  2907 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I shudder to think that I have been that person to other people, but hey, probably have

OftenBen  ·  2907 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you're a songbird, then poetry is your song, and you shouldn't feel ashamed for singing.

lil  ·  2908 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Perhaps a shirt with little bicycles crashing through hearts all over it?

Indeed, it can be interesting how others describe us._refugee_ has described others here and there with brilliant poetic metaphors. Maybe she'll find a couple to share.

flac  ·  2908 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Tempting...

zebra2  ·  2908 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You could populate a #litcat issue with these

lil  ·  2908 days ago  ·  link  ·  

thx. What happened to litcat? The link only takes me into a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

Now that I got through my last class until January something, I hope to do more writing and at least populate pubski with, I hope, things that make steve giggle. I wonder if anyone is on IRC talking about the whatevers that they talk about.