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Sunday, November 9th, 2003
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4:22 pm - Lookie, a poem!
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Longing and Wonder
by Myra Shapiro
"Talk to Myra you talk to the wall,"
Mama announced when I lived
so long in my head. Behind
my lids was where I fit.
Oh world, be small enough to hold me,
slow enough to let me swallow.
Maybe I belonged back inside her. Or
beneath the spine of a book. Maybe
among tall buildings to incubate
between their legs. The warm kitchen
was never for me though I wanted
to shine. Passion I called
the pressure wrestling underneath.
Yesterday, in an audience listening to
my first book of poems,
a full professor asked me: "Longing,
how is it different from wonder?"
Astonished, jack-lit as a robber
caught with the goods, I felt my eyes
struggle to withdraw--and then
in longing you close your eyes
but in wonder you open them.
When those words went
ZINGing through the lovely room,
you bet your sweet ass they opened.
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| Monday, September 22nd, 2003
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5:40 pm - Notice to people not on my friends list
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Yes, the entries are here, they are just invisible. If you have an lj and you want to be on my list, put me on yours! First though, put up a note here, so I'll actually get a notice. Also, say who you are, namewise and in a few words maybe? Thanks!
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| Friday, July 18th, 2003
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10:45 am
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There, friends-only-ized. I don't need this thing completely public, and too many people are finding it, as I was reminded this morning :\
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