It is in the margins that
poems are found.
-Osip Mandelstam
I wish I had a magic laptop - one with wireless connections in a house without wireless capabilities.
I have had sixteen ounces of water to replace 72 ounces of wine. My math is not so good. I am thirsty. And a little drunk.
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I walked on the beach today - it was happening under my feet. Who lives at the beach and never goes to the beach? That person is me. We all have personal definitions of weirdness - I am weird to some of you, I imagine. But the woman in the visor coming toward me and not coming toward me was weird. We were in a silent competition of finding the best seashells and I bent over purposely to find the better seashell that wasn't to be found.
I want to rescue afghans at thrift stores. Someone made those, you know? They made them for their grandchildren, their neighbor's niece, their sister, someone they knew by association. I have a strange desire to wrap myself in these rescued afghans, if I could only have the courage to buy them outright. But little hairs (unappealing) get trapped in the fibers, and dust. To wash them could mean their ruin and that would make me feel guilty. I don't know what to do about this.
4 comments:
haha, drunk Madge..... = awesome.
---MB
ps. i know what you mean about the "thriftstore grime" that makes otherwise nifty things un-nifty.
pps. in that one sentence, i made up both a phrase and a word. go me
i love your drunk tipsy ramblings. they are quite wonderfully stream of consciousness. also, i wish i had 72 oz of wine right now.... 2:30 in the afternoon be damned!
i totally understand your afghan feelings. i've recently had such feelings myself. of feeling larger than myself, and yet smaller. a weird sense of timelessness forgotten. i sound retarded, but it's why i like to play with photography slides i got get at thrift shops. there is just... so much love and interest and money invested in them - and now they are nothing.
thankfully, slides can be easily cleaned of unappealing hairs and skin flakes - no destructive washer needed.
If you've got a synthetic yearn can't you just wash it gentle/cold with a mild detergent and lay flat to dry? That's what I would do. Then, if there are hairs stuck in it still at least they're clean ;)
You have no idea how much that post makes me want to make out with you.
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