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Saturday, November 19, 2005
WHEN I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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One by one he subdued his father's trees
By riding them down over and over again
Until he took the stiffness out of them,
And not one but hung limp, not one was left
For him to conquer. He learned all there was
To learn about not launching out too soon
And so not carrying the tree away
Clear to the ground.
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
Birches, Robert FrostAnd life's gonna drop you down
like the limbs of a tree
It sways and it swings and it bends
until it makes you see
Jump, Madonna
ah! that makes me like the poem and the song more than i already do. love the literary links!
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To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
De Profundis, Oscar Wilde
he couldn't have said it any better than that, really. it may seem pointless to pick at scabbed wounds harbouring festering scars, but i guess i just have to tell you this again. i really don't understand how, or why you can pretend that things that happened never did. being forward-looking is a good thing, but only when mindful of what it is one is walking away from. rejection of a shared past is the most stinging insult one can hurl at another.
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i think pride is an important thing to maintain. at least a decent level of it. to debase oneself, to offer oneself up so shamelessly to the whims of others... that's not really something i can do. if that means being inflexible, then so be it. i guess i'm just too much of an individualist. M, you're wrong. i am hardly a conformist. (cliche alert!) you think you know me, but you really don't.
what, that i would willingly lower myself to be the lapdog that's secretly scorned than stand apart standing tall and erect? i know my choice.
if you can't beat them,
join them. don't lose your dignity.
mike just took up your time at
3:55 pm
th time!