The Ultimatum frenemyasking while denyingreaching while restraininginhaling suffocatingsuffered in kindduring those darker daysyet, the target ofunyielding animosityfalling intopersonal darknessnurturing ithiding in its embracewhile weepingand loathingthose playing in the sunlightjoin them in the sunor shrink away into those familiar shadowsbut I will no longer bean unwilling frenemy
Paper Wasp Beauty.Delicate paper spunsphere within sphere.Beauty.A retractable stingerable to bring preyto its kneesand defendthe paper sphere.But her beauty hasno choice.Her beauty is easy.She stings whenit is time to sting,and spins paperwhen it is time.While we are leftwith a more complexbeauty.When is it time forus to sting?for us to spin paper?Will we everget it right?
Rolling the Democratic Dice REGARDING AN ARTICLE Fellow Americans, and any others who care to immerse themselves in my petty ramblings: I read an e-mail article backed by a 25-page paper that got me thinking. (see paper: http://www.business.unr.edu/econ/wp/papers/UNRECONWP06008.pdf) My first reaction is, this person is seeing what they choose to see. It is a somewhat free country, so I think Elliott has that right. But his analysis makes an unintentional mockery of the complexity of the data, IMHO. He distills MASSIVE amounts of numbers into glittering generalities (I know he doesnt see it that way, but the paper lacks enough detail for me to truly map his di
It Starts Here it all starts herecan there be respectcan there be conversationcan there be all the things that make a friend a friendpassion and romancebest sit this one outnot invited to the dancethey wait awkwardly by the punch bowlthen it might happenthe physical sparkthe chemical reactionthat even by itself can create a bondthen a friendbecomes a companiontwo dreamers reachingand helping the other reach out towards lifehow long it lastsit is unpredictableboth must be willingto love each enough to set the other freejust friendsthey said likeit was the endif only they knew, it had only just begun