You were once.
You were never.
Were you ever?
Oh, never to have been!
Be again.
– Samuel Beckett
Month: May 2014
Yes
It’s about the blood
banging in the body,
and the brain
lolling in its bed
like a happy baby.
At your touch, the nerve,
that volatile spook tree,
vibrates. The lungs
take up their work
with a giddy vigor.
Tremors in the joints
and tympani,
dust storms
in the canister of sugar.
The coil of ribs
heats up, begins
to glow. Come
here.
– Catherine Doty
The Gorgeous Nothings
“In this short Life
that only [merely] lasts an hour
How much—how
little—is
within our
power.”
– Emily Dickinson, from The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems
Morning Haiku
You Come Too
Understand, I’ll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I’ll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows, with only this one dream: You come too.
– Ranier Maria Rilke
Earth
You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that.
– Samuel Beckett
People Like Themselves
“People are interested in people like themselves. Women on eHarmony favour men who are similar not just in obvious ways — age, attractiveness, education, income — but also in less apparent ones, such as creativity. Even when eHarmony includes a quirky data point — like how many pictures are included in a user’s profile — women are more likely to message men similar to themselves. In fact, of the 102 traits in the data set, there was not one for which women were more likely to contact men with opposite traits.”
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