"Well, buy them a drink then..."
We have a group in the restaurant, oil & gas, name of the reservation synonymous with recent world wars and corruption. You can't have turned on a TV in the past year or watched a documentary without seeing some reference to their nefarious doings.
The owner doesn't recognize their name, "Oil and Gas?" he asks, I explain that their name is synonymous with the Iraq war, Internment Camps, environmental catastrophes, high level corruption and oligarchy in both the US and abroad.
He thinks for a moment on this, then:
"Well, buy them a drink then..."
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Lists of Note
From the same blogger who brought you letters of note comes another one: Lists of Note.
I like lists, and so it only makes sense that I'd like reading other peoples lists, often as screwy and messed up as my own...
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Sadie Hawkins Day
Having avoided answering the phone, checking my email, all for naught, Sadie Hawkins Day passed again without a single marriage proposal.
Although, having informed a table celebrating a 20th birthday of the attendant folk customs the feted birthday girl, just turning 20, Great Grandma as it were, suggests that perhaps she should propose marriage to me. How to escape this? "Darling, at 20 you're far, far too young, call me when you're 37 or so...".
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95 Poems - E.E. Cummings
#16 as follows:
in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why,remember how
in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so(forgetting seem)
in time of roses(who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if,remember yes
in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek(forgetting find)
and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me,remember me
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