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June 08 Fun with FormI miss my writing classes...! Was going through boxes as I'm packing to move again and was Jonesing for some wordplay. My favourite writing is in form, and this is a Sestina. Challenging but fun. Find the pattern, I dare you.
Contemplation, in Terms
The equation mocks me from the pa-
per i've arm-wrestled since dawn. So much
for high education--my notion for study is up.
My mind declining, I pull on sweats and lace
my Adidas and commence a ritual sweat:
the old high school track lends relief by the lap
I like to run (when it's done and collapse
is merited). A call from my sis (one of six) by pay-
phone fills dis-illusion's cup: her old man's sweat-
in' her again; he's left her frantically stranded. So much
for eternal commitment. I'm drawn to her rescue with laced
lips,as my "single's mentality"'s advice gets her back up
(can't wait for welock's net to catch me up in it's faithful bliss)...We drive for awhile; lapse
in and out of trite conversation. We're family, laced
tight eternally, so why stress the small pains?
I'm good for a rant and a shoulder, but too much
from me makes their reunion a sweat...
Procrastination and i are courting again; I sweat
through all-night study binges as I try to catch up
to my good academic intentions. My mind has so much
in its read-only files it threatens complete collapse.
Pressure builds, as I'm the first to pursue, to such pains,
this door-bursting dream; my dream, laced
to my father's, his own cut short as he laid
it aside to provide...Discouragement sweats
me only to temporary avail: I'll pay
quite a price for my destined success. I am up
to my eyes in disordered clutter; my untidy home lapses
in and out of disaster; my thoughts much
the same. Sis number five is soon to be wed--so much
for our playing it up singly! Numbers one, three and four laid
that groundwork quite young, and five tightly follows, lap-
ping me on the serious relationship race-track. I won't sweat
it--I still have my Al. My number will come up
in due time...The math still taunts--thorny opponent--what pains
I sweat for prosperity's sake! So much for collapse;
I'll not give up so easily. High stakes in this pained
game keep me slightly straight-laced, indefinitely...
June 05 Scary day.This is my niece Taylor. She fell today and hit her head so hard she stopped breathing. I had been there tending, and when my sister got home we were going to have lunch before I went to work. I was in the bathroom, and my sister started yelling "Help! Help!!!" I ran out and Taylor was limp as a rag and turning blue and just not breathing. I grabbed the phone and called the paramedics--maybe a knee jerk reaction but the panic on my sister's face and, well, Taylor not breathing, made me err on caution's side. Taylor finally started breathing but she would cry and then look like she was falling asleep then stop breathing again. They came and once they got there she started acting more normal, but was just sad and lethargic. They said she's probably ok but to take her in to the hospital. I'm on my way back over there to watch the boys so my sis can do that. Scary, scary. June 02 My English ProfessorThis makes me so effing happy! I swear this is my creative writing professor from the U who would sit cross legged on her desk as she taught and mused and was freaking brilliant. Really, really really makes me want to go back to school. (And yes, everyone, I know this is Lisa Loeb and this was my favourite song she ever performed that I grew up on. Notice my use of comparison and contrast and a slant-simile to incorporate humor into the learning process today. Do not send me comments that this woman, most definitely, was not my teacher. I'll give you an "F" for the day and make you write sentences on the blackboard after class.) Moving, again?!I spoke of moving in with parents once again, right? Saving money for Kenya trip etc. etc... Happened about three-ish weeks ago. Plan was to go to kenya then come home and live here while I finished up school. Funny, funny plans. Parents decided this week to sell house and move to Eagle Mountain which equals far, far away! That's what I get...
Holy mother my passport came back today in the mail, and the visa page is officially stamped and, well, official! Five weeks. I sent for it on May 13, and even with the expediting I was sure I wouldn't see it until the night before my flight left. That was mad fast. Whew!
June 01 So brave am I.I asked a cute boy who I've been noticing for a bit to exchange email addresses. He's moving this week to Idaho. Woot. And not, since he's moving, but whatever... |
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