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chaelosm voice 
 (1/1/04 9:16 pm) Reply |
since it's the first day of a new year... I thought I'd take the opportunity to share this poem by one of my favorite authors ... I've yakked about him enough here so I'll just get to the poem: New Year's Resolution by Philip Appleman from New and Selected Poems, 1956-1996 Well, I did it again, bringing in that infant Purity across the land, welcoming Innocence with gin in New York, waiting up to help Chicago, Denver, L.A., Fairbanks, Hon- olulu--and now the high school bands are alienating Dallas, and girls in gold and tangerine have lost all touch with Pasadena, and young men with muscles and missing teeth are dreaming of personal fouls, and it's all beginning again, just like those other Januaries in instant reply. But I've had enough of turning to look back, the old post-morteming of defeat: people I loved but didn't touch, friends I haven't seen for years, strangers who smiled but didn't speak--failures, failures. No, I refuse to leave it at that, because somewhere, off camera, January is coming like Venus up from the murk of December, re- virginized, as innocent of loss as any dawn. Resolved: this year I'm going to break my losing streak, I'm going to stay alert, reach out, speak when not spoken to, read the minds of people in the streets. I'm going to practice every day, stay in training, and be moderate in all things. All things but love. |
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Tiny Thinker 
 (1/6/04 3:31 pm) Reply |
Re: since it's the first day of a new year...
But you know, the new year feels just like the old one to me.
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Eddie257 
lingering (1/6/04 9:00 pm) Reply |
Re: since it's the first day of a new year... I feel the same way. It'll only feel different only for those commited to change. It feels like just another day for the rest of us 
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Saphirical Slave
 (1/7/04 8:02 pm) Reply |
Re: since it's the first day of a new year... ok ya morbididididio punkolios!!!!!!!  a lil la la here for the new year! hell .... if theres nothin new bout it or about every day really... then what? whas it all for, roit? u jus hav to do this life cuz somebody sexD and made you here? or can ya just move ur space around a lil...... hell it dont have to b progression jus some constant evolution.... roit? or De - volution! hehehe.... oh im jus playin ya kno but dayum! yall punked out! hehe......really thas a way cool poem! me..... im doin my normal things... but im learn to cook this year.... so F it.... im stoked!!!!!!! word! beams yall fah real saphire |
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Eddie257 
 (1/7/04 8:38 pm) Reply |
Re: since it's the first day of a new year... I hardly call that morbid  If you want to change who says you need to do it jan. 1st? 
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chaelosm voice
(1/9/04 2:45 pm) Reply |
Re: since it's the first day of a new year...Quote:Of course it does if you choose not to participate in the ritual .. it's all a matter of perspective.
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Saphirical Slave
(1/13/04 11:06 pm) Reply |
Re: since it's the first day of a new year... eddie... yeh i was messin! heh... u kno usual i don make this day anything but i did this year for the fun..... sooooooo.... u kno if i do it... i want all my booz tah do with me!!!!! its kinnah like the bathroom partner thang! beams now saphire |
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