We live in a city of smokestacks and umbrellaheads. A city split in two and turned upside down. A city dazed and unsteady on sixteen million feet, six feet under and darker than that. We live in a city that slept for the first time in nearly a century.
A city of people confused and bemused and infused with "what can I what shall I what must I do now?" It's a city that's hurting and breathing and fishing and wishing and laughing and living and waiting to wake up.
We live in a state of huddling and listening. Watching as the resilient basketball hoop in the driveway snaps in two as the trees behind dance in an insane tango, a physically impro
Assign the equation a variable (variability: life, chance, consequence)
They just happen to use "u" (are lost)
Eightscore eight days hath passed
and not once has x (marks the
spot) been found
Take the derivative (from whence you were derived)
and divide by zero ("u" or one of the failures you've met)
And your equation, your ph(r)ase has now exploded,
what have yo("u") done?
NEVER divide by zero
before you reach the limit (the sky, perhaps?)
What, you get it now?
Well, when's the wedding?
"It's time for your chemotherapy now, honey. You can come back here once it's started." During the time spent at the Children's Hospital, I must have heard the scrubs-clad nurses saying that in gentle voices at least fifteen times. Each time, there was a pang of sympathy and encouraging smiles. The young patients in the Arts Neighborhood (Cancer Center) at the Children's Hospital are my role models; each has a smile and a personality that transcends his or her cancer.
During the summer, I volunteered daily at the Child Life department of the hospital; I wasn't a helper, but a friend and playmate to the patients there. On a Tuesday afternoon,
The Unfinished Story by Sepulchral-Roses, literature
Literature
The Unfinished Story
"A thousand paper cranes for a thousand days of good luck."
"I'll make you a crane each day for the rest of your life."
"That won't take too long."
"They're supposed to bring good health. I'll keep you alive forever."
"You'll stay for that long?"
"Always."
"Excuse me, but visiting hours are over; you can come back and see her tomorrow morning if you'd like."
The wine was white that day,
a new bottle, chilled to perfection;
unaged, it swayed on the tray,
an unfinished story, a collection
of tales with no endings and no "and then"s.
No happily ever afters,
no flashing camera lens
to click it all to dust.
It was a today, a here,
The first summer rain by Sepulchral-Roses, literature
Literature
The first summer rain
I'm waiting for that first summer rain:
The one that cools as it cleans the dust
from the streets, gurgles into the drain.
The leaves dance along with the robust,
prophetic, raindrops fall: dirt to mud.
I'm waiting for those summer rains, such
that will make you believe in it all:
There exists in that moment, no touch
of reality what a lovely squall!
And yet there exists no fantasy.
I'm waiting for that wondrous raining,
that makes both one and the very same:
lackadaisical Monet painting
the beauteous fairies' hidden fame
That unopposed freedom it will bring
I'm waiting for that first s u
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