Do we pretend our lives ended once we left one another?

Perhaps.

Our lives together have ended. But our separate lives go on, hopefully we’ll both meet someone who, now that we’ve each learned ten years of lessons, will benefit from that, as will each of us.

He still wears the clothing I gave him (basically every awesome t-shirt he owns), he wears them when out with his new person. There are parts of our pasts we obviously can’t erase and they will bleed into one another.

I still wear a necklace he gave me, and I wear it all the time so it’s inevitable that my new interests won’t see it. Maybe ask about it. And I’ll say where it came from. To be with me, is to accept my past

I would hope anyone he chooses to be with, accepts that I once sat on that couch (I bought that couch), bought that Psycho shower curtain, slept on her side of the bed, that parts of me remain there.

Why the lack of honesty about where our lives are going?

That hurts much more than making believe there is no one else.

I read that people underestimate themselves in times of duress. I think this is true. Mainly, because I am here writing this.

And I know my overall situation isn’t all that unusual, but feeling as if I’m starting completely over at 31 is daunting to say the least.

When does that pain start to ebb? I guess it slowly has, but still it’ll hit at the worst times, merging on the freeway, for example and all I can do to keep from crying, well, I don’t keep from crying. So there is that.

Sadness arrives and shouldn’t my poetic resources be spilling like crazy? Instead it’s an uncorked bottle of anxiety and depression. And wondering if those I left behind are happier without me in their life.

Ira and Abby realize that perhaps couples aren’t meant to be together forever.  And that isn’t a bad thing.  Just realistic.

Ira: Maybe marriage is just a fad, with an unusally long lifespan….
Abby: Like bottled water
Ira: or man-sandals…

It seems anytime I’ve considered marriage, it’s always because “everyone’s doing it,”  ”it’s the next step.”  But what about keeping that option open that perhaps you don’t want to be bound to someone forever, or pulling off the legal red tape to unstick yourselves from one another?

And perhaps for those of us who do want it ,deciding to marry within the first few hours of knowing on another, might make the most sense.  Why not get hitched while you still have that heady-oh-my-god-I-can’t-get-enough-of-you feeling instead of waiting around and doing it as “the next stage of life” ? Go into it while the adrenaline, endorphins and dopamine are charging through your brain!

Ira and Abby seemed to have it figured out.  Enjoy the rush of marriage, with the rush of first finding out you are in love, then as it becomes comfortable, divorce and live contentedly while still acknowledging the happiness together, may not last forever.

“chronotopes” to me:

“Always happy to oblige…the chronotope, according to its coiner–Bakhtin– is the literary expression of the ratio between the real biographical time of an event and its representation in fiction. If something is very brief in the real world, but takes up a lot of time in fiction, then it’s probably very important and rises to the status of a “chronotope.” One of my students used The Real World as a way of explaining it. The producers film and film and film, but the only things that are really interesting are people going in and out of doors, partying, and puking. I doubt Bakhtin would have liked the chronotope of the hot-tub, but it appears to have descriptive validity when talking about MTV.”

Bakhtin

The Beats

Some keep trying to connect me with

the beats

but I was vastly unpublished in the

50’s

and

I very much

disliked their vanity and

all that

public

postering.

And when I met most of them

later in my life

I still felt that most of my

feelings toward

them

were the

same.

Some accepted

that; others thought that I

should change my

viewpoint.

My viewpoint remained the

same: writing is done

one person

at a time

one place

at a time.

and all the gatherings

and tenderings of

proclamations toward the

flock

has very little

to do

with anything.

Any one of those

could have made it as a

shoe salesman or a

used car

salesman.

And they still

could

instead of bitching about

the changes of the fates and

the ways

even

still

now:

From the sad university

lecterns

those hucksters of the

despoiled word

working the

hand-outs

still talking that

dumb shit.

This morning I can’t stop dancing. Perhaps it’s my new T-shirt from the school I just got back from. Perhaps, it’s  the drumbeat that makes my shoulders begin to move.  Aw, it’s always the drum beat. A good drum beat energizes me, makes me lose myself. I love it!

Passion Pit- Eyes Like Candles

I am sorry for the creepy still photo video accompanying the song!

My obsession with Michelle Obama continues. A old friend (he is not old, older than me, but, we caught up recently) and I have begun our political movement based off of the strap of Michelle Obama’s Inaugural Gown designed by Jason Wu. At first I wasn’t too fond of the strap. But as I looked at the dress, I  realized I like the strap. After forcing my friend, by email to stare at the dress,  (or at least he was nice enough to pretend) he realized his love for the strap as well.  (that sounds either dirty, or like a violent parent).  Our Political Movement, well, we haven’t quite figured out what it stand for, or what we hope to accomplish. We just know we are the  SO’s.  Or the Strap On’s!  But we wrap ourselves in chiffon and fight for the greater good of the strap!

McCain has learned the secret.  The secret that any woman who wants to vote can be swayed by a candidate with a vagina.  No matter how polar (bear hating) opposite Palin may be from Clinton, we women will vote for her, because OH MY GOD, SHE’S A WOMAN!!!! I have thrown my pro-choice, work to save the environment, not in favor of guns, beliefs out the window for Palin’s vag!!! 

Yeah, I was never a Hillary supporter.  I mean she’s a great POLITICIAN!!!! Both Clintons are great POLITICIANS!! Their marriage has to be a sham. Maybe it was once built on love, now though, maybe respect, but really, it’s about getting ahead.

I am a full supporter of Obama and having a woman in the White House doesn’t sway me, unless that woman candidate is the utmost qualified candidate for the position.  

Thank you John McCain for realizing we women cannot tell the difference between one woman and another.  Thank you for realizing at the end of the day, we are all pretty silly,  and probably should count ourselves lucky that we even get the opportunity to vote.

Let’s get a real woman in the House here: