HE SAID, MARIE, MARIE, HOLD ON TIGHT

And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

~ The Waste Land, "The Burial of The Dead", Eliot

Saturday, September 15, 2007
the people in my life drive me crazy and i love them
after a shakespearean phonecall, which was full of anagnorisis, peripeteia, pathetic fallacy, and all the terms i memorised in literary class, and ultimately, love, i sleep and wake up, strangely, crying, for some inexplicable reason.
then i turn on my phone and wake up to this voice message. "man you can't believe what happened to me yesterday. i had to cut away my parachute, and it landed in the woods somewhere. anyway we couldn't find it, so i'm back here trying to find it. anyway, im still alive, but it'll cost me 3000 dollars, i mean, 3000, if we can't find it. anyway, i thought it'll make a good story."
another friend writes me that she hopes there are good vegetables in season, and we need more women need to change the world. i love her, to bits.
downstairs, i can hear the sound of breakfast being made, and things falling into place.

[publishing] Publishers Weekly . Dystel & Goderich . New York Center for Independent Publishing . Association of American University Presses . Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

[people] clarisse . nurul . aunty zarina (ummi's bakery) . jeremy . pak . cyril . softblow . karen & kenny (booksactually) . eric . joel .

[other loves] digitaljournalist . ballet dictionary . poetshouse . urbanwordnyc

[me] dawn, singapore, new york city, ithaca.

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we've known each other since we were 9 or 10
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