A Ritual to Read to Each Other

If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and I don’t know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

For there is many a small betrayal in the mind,
a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break
sending with shouts the horrible errors of childhood
storming out to play through the broken dyke.

And as elephants parade holding each elephant’s tail,
but if one wanders the circus won’t find the park,
I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty
to know what occurs but not recognize the fact.

And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy,
a remote important region in all who talk:
though we could fool each other, we should consider---
lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark.

For it is important that awake people be awake,
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give---yes or no, or maybe---
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep."

~ by William Stafford

This seemed a fitting Holiday greeting...?

What's not funny about Randy Quaid playing an Amish bowler mentored by a washed up Woody Harrelson? Not a thing. The flossing scene made me spew popcorn -- poetic, I thought.

I am in love with both of them. That's why.

It's not just because of the UST, or because this film contains the best onscreen kiss ever, it's because desire and love do not necessitate need & not everyone wants to be possessed by a man.

Twin gynecologists. In honor of Halloween ...

Mamet. Martin. And has anybody else noticed that Campbell Scott is very good at playing assholes?

This entire meme could be devoted to Hugh Grant & Drew Barrymore.

I've known relative strangers too.