I can't stop listening to this song. (The Greatest Thing In The World, EVER!, 6)

I began today listening to "Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk" by The New Pornographers and then slowly moved into The Airborne Toxic Event and then I found this song and now I can't stop listening to it.




What's weird is that the second line is "I've had my mind wrapped around this one song."

I think I've just been hypnotized.

Age doesn't get lighter with dreams (Friday's Sunday's Poem)

Why He Decided To Live In Tomorrow

My mother and father died yesterday.

And I know what people say
About living in today

But that doesn’t make it easier to bear.


Too, I dropped a child’s toy just days ago.

My move to catch it was slow,
Seems I can’t let that go.

But that doesn’t make it easier to bear.


A month ago I almost quit my job.

I’d dreamed I might try something
Else to make a living

Dreams don’t get lighter with age.


At 39 I tried to write a movie script
At 35 I tried to run a marathon.
At 30 I thought life would be easy.
At 25 I thought my education done.
At 20 I hadn’t yet slipped

Into life.

Age doesn’t get lighter with dreams.

Tomorrow:

Tomorrow there are flying cars.
Tomorrow there are trips to the stars.
Tomorrow will be weather-controlled.
Tomorrow will be brave and bold.

Tomorrow doesn’t acknowledge today.
Tomorrow won’t shake hands with yesterday.
Tomorrow spits on last week and if it ever met a month ago Tuesday, it would kick it in the shins and skip away laughing because Tomorrow has no weight.

Tomorrow is easy to bear.

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About the Poem: I wrote this poem just after I heard about the island of Samoa deciding to skip December 30 entirely and move ahead to December 31. The concept of simply skipping a day seemed amazing to me, provided that you skip the right day, but more amazing to me was the idea that you could suddenly declare it tomorrow instead of today.

This poem is not about me.

I should add that. Too many people think everything written in the first person is (semi?)autobiographical. This poem is not.

There is one part that's a little about me: I really did drop one of Mr Bunches' toys the other day, a train engine he'd just bought at the store, and a wheel broke off of it, and it made him super-sad, so sad that I then bought him a Batman action figure to make up for it, but it was a very poignant moment, so I decided to use that here. But the rest of the poem is made up. I am not living in tomorrow or even worried about tomorrow.

I love today too much to cheat on it.

About the Hot Actress: I picked this one. It's Lea Seydoux, who plays an assassin in Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol, which Sweetie and I saw Wednesday night and which was really incredible even if it did kind of jump over major plot holes by saying "Let's just ignore that major plot hole." I picked her because everyone thinks that other girl is so hot, the one who stars in it, but I didn't think she was all that great-looking, and [SPOILER ALERT!] she is, like, the worst IMF agent EVER. I can't imagine her performance reviews go well each year.

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