Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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Are you "Uniquely American"? Do you have 2.5 jobs to keep your home that you never see? Have you worked your ass off to get your BA at night school only to find out that today's BA is yesterday's HS Diploma? I want to hear from you - I want to know how you get by! What do you do to pay the leeches - I mean bills? This is a forum of ideas. You can stay anonymous if you wish, I want to hear what you have to do just to keep afloat in today's sinking economy.
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Oooooh! Now I know that name....My Cat Jeoffrey...I have that in a little book...
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The Caterpillar
by Robert Graves
Under this loop of honeysuckle,
A creeping, coloured caterpillar,
I gnaw the fresh green hawthorn spray,
I nibble it leaf by leaf away.
Down beneath grow dandelions,
Daisies, old-man's-looking-glasses;
Rooks flap croaking across the lane.
I eat and swallow and eat again.
Here come raindrops helter-skelter;
I munch and nibble unregarding:
Hawthorn leaves are juicy and firm.
I'll mind my business: I'm a good worm.
When I'm old, tired, melancholy,
I'll build a leaf-green mausoleum
Close by, here on this lovely spray,
And die and dream the ages away.
Some say worms win resurrection,
With white wings beating flitter-flutter,
But wings or a sound sleep, why should I care?
Either way I'll miss my share.
Under this loop of honeysuckle,
A hungry, hairy caterpillar,
I crawl on my high and swinging seat,
And eat, eat, eat—as one ought to eat.
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"It's fucking great to be alive!" - Frank Zappa
Even when it isn't.
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