three...two...one...ignition
apparantly scientists around the world have concurred that PLUTO no longer fits the criteria of "planet". i learned this during fourth grade science class yesterday. see what happens when you don't watch the news? you miss important life altering info. also, my client asked me if i knew the three kinds of eclipses. i could only think of two. he informed me that the three types are SOLAR eclipse LUNAR eclipse and the most deadly of all, POC-clipse. i was stumped. poc-clipse...poc-clipse...? then it hit me. he meant apocolypse. it was brilliant. certainly, this is indeed the most deadly of all eclipses. i love my job.
nicholas walks
nicholas went for a walk one day/
with a cardboard box to prepare the way/
for the paper doll jesus who makes him say/
that the time of deliverance/
will soon be coming/
set up a shrine to the plastic king/
say your prayers out loud with your bells to ring/
tell the cities to bow and the lost to sing/
that the time of deliverance/
will soon be coming/
crossing your fingers beside the dirt/
write your vagabond gospel upon your shirt/
hold your sign post up to declare the word/
that the time of deliverance/
will soon be coming
enemy inside
the light in the corner of my room bathes my sleeping frame and i recall every moment of the last year i turn kind of like a restless page waiting for the plot twist in the novel i've begun to work through where it too at the bottom of the bedside rests cause i've seen the enemy inside i've seen the enemy inside but next time around this last time behind us we'll take what's before us we better wise up this time around we better wise up from outside the window peeks in the unknown shaking me right on cue and i don't know whether i should feel surprised or feel bored cause in truth i know it's been there all along to scare me back inside of my head but you know it's almost a comfort at this point and it's not really the thing that alarms me the most cause i'm afraid of the enemy inside i'm afraid of the enemy inside but next time around the last time behind us we'll take what's before us we better wise up this time around we better wise up
love song
Your mind is full/
and mine is on empty
/it seems we've forgotten the sins of our youth
/our sanctity bearing
/Hurry! St. Francis! To find us a Saviour
/For we who are dying to be born
/will grace receive
/And you don't have to be something for me
/Cause you live with the right and the wrong
/for as long as we learn to be
/together and free
/living the light and the glory
/of His love story
/Your spirit to save
/and the mystery savor
/thrown from the depths of a desperate nation
/our bodies remember
/the hearts that are bleeding
/with the wounds of redemption
/may yet with St. Simon and Jude
/bless His name
/And you don't have to be something for me
/Cause you live with the right and the wrong
/for as long as we learn to be
/together and free
/living the light and the glory
/of His love story
/Chosen by love
/and called to repentance
/the wisdom of countless years fashioned
/the means of confession
/As St. Magdalena our hearts will be chastened
/for they that endure until the end
/shall be saved
/And you don't have to be something for me
/Cause you live with the right and the wrong
/for as long as we learn to be
/together and free
/living the light and the glory
/of His love story
coffee in the afternoon
i am in a coffee shop in DC waiting for emily b to meet me here. she's pretty great. we've been playing phone tag for a while because our schedules are so different. a few minutes ago emily and i determined (on the phone) that she accidentally walked the wrong way and found herself in a less safe portion of the city. hmm. not to worry...noah was downstairs meeting with a friend and i summoned him to go rescue her. so i am still sitting here. i feel sort of bad because this guy came over to me earlier and asked me if someone was using the other chair. i told him it was being used. well. i now have made myself into a giant liar because i have been sitting here for like a half hour or so and the chair allegedly in use has yet to be occupied. hahha. i guess it happens. anyway, due to a variety of reasons, noah and i have decided to postpone the wedding date. i still am moving to DC at the end of september, and we are still getting married, just not in eleven weeks. lots of pressure with school and marriage and moving and jobs. not the optimal situation. i am not what you would call an excellent multi-tasker, and neither (for that matter) is noah. when things are a bit more settled, we'll set the new date. for now, we are breathing... and that's a start.
