November 22
JELLYFISH AND PEANUT BUTTER CARDS
Jellyfish and peanut butter cards make for busy days and
cheerful nights, sunlit at the beach and lantern light filled with
double-decker solitaire. Camping as a
way of life suits some as they run from their lives. For the more balanced, camp is a temporary
retreat. To the overly invested, camping
is an aberration, a threat to the foundations of civilization as we know
it. I can take a bit of sand in my hair,
smoke in the air. Though I do dread the
feeling of coming back to the life I love and feeling like a stranger. Temporary disengagement estranges me from the
place, the things, the dog. I need time
away, variety of experience, expanded horizons.
I need my entrenched home life. I
need it all and must accept the clock never stops running anyplace on the
planet even if I am enjoying a good game with sticky camp cards, regaling tales
of man-of-war.
Don’t break your
wishbone.
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One and One
The person who has nothing is vague.
The person who has too much alludes.
And these people may falsely mistake one another
for kindred
when what you draw your conclusions from
are the poems and sweet words,
which flow out of these divergent folk.
A paper house is built, but the living is impossible.
Tying strings to dreams doesn’t permit you
to fly away to fairylands it just leaves you prone
to lightening strikes and long wet wicks.
What could be the truth unfolded;
spread broadly for all to see?
Where could the roads so very far apart
lead to a home, a hearth, a life?
Or is this just a field of fantasy flowers blooming in our
minds?
Mist is vapor pretending at a marriage
to a world it will soon evaporate and leave.
You and I are passing ships on a short sad night.
Vlog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSJYcDs6BWE&feature=youtu.be
You are reading selections from Sober on the Way to Sane
and More Lines From My Life by Sherrie Theriault
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