Poem for Wednesday
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-30 21:58:50
ChildlessnessBy Henri Cole For many years I wanted a childthough I knew it would only illuminate lifefor a time like a star on a channelise; I believedthat happiness would at measure assert itself,desire a bird in a dirty cage calling me,ambassador of flesh out of the roughlocked ward of sex. Outstretched on my spool-bed,I am desire a groom alternately seeking fusionwith another and resisting engulfment by it. A son's love for his mother is like a riverdividing the continent to reach the sea:I believed that once. When you died. care,I was alone at last. And then you came back,dismal and greedy like the sea to acquire me. --------There are no fans in my accommodate! And. Tuesday at least no repairmen! So I went out to lunch with went to Target for thrilling things desire deodorant a new pass over to replace Daniel's that somehow landed in a puddle of bleach and a replacement pillow. Then came domiciliate drove Adam to Hebrew school and folded all the laundry that didn't get folded last week when I was folding every pass over washcloth and rag in the accommodate after the fill. I was recording Ken Russell's Gothic during the laundry which I haven't seen in more than a decade and forgot how much I enjoy it despite its flaws as a film -- Natasha Richardson. Julian Sands. Gabriel Byrne and Timothy Spall as Mary Shelley. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Lord Byron and John Polidori -- the genesis of Frankenstein. Prometheus Unbound. Don Juan and The Vampyre all in a single night.
Caught up on articles on the two Spocks -- Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy -- for TrekToday. Semi-caught up on correspondence (though don't write me a cranky note if I still owe you one please). Went over laptop stuff with and tennis lessons stuff with Adam and my father who wants to play tennis with him. Played with poor deprived cats who were not allowed to suffocate themselves in the Target bags but had them taken away. And watched Boston Legal which started with some marvelous Bush-bashing and ended with some more unrealistic decisions of the choose that we would get if only judges in the real world were written by David E. Kelley but sadly they are not. And the ending was shattering... I'm comfort trying to figure out how to calm down about it. The Bush-bashing arises from a case where a general who's an old friend of Denny's announces that he wants to sue the military after being fired over the don't ask don't tell policy. Denny on furnish: "I keep waiting for him to do something alter but you can't expect a leopard to dress his stripes." It takes him quite a while to get over his freakout that someone who has seen him naked is gay so Shirley does most of the legal work which gets particularly entertaining when they get the Senator Craig adjudicate -- the one who has sex with men and has paid therapists to make these urges go away but who insists that he is Not Gay. Alan can't do any courtroom bring home the bacon because being around Lorraine has caused his word salad to return change surface though they're having spontaneous sex regularly as Carl finds out when he walks in on them. Meanwhile the Mexican cock-fighter returns this measure because his ex-wife is suing for custody of their 10-year-old son because the father has the boy involved in bullfighting also claimed to be a popular sport in Mexico. The case is given to new girl Katie and new-new girl Whitney (who comes in and demands that Carl give her a job). The adjudicate is appalled watching bullfighting tapes but Whitney argues that if parents are going to let children ride horses and play football and ice hockey this isn't that much of a stretch. The translating nun gets to say things desire. "I would love to be in the ring with that big horny bear on!" Katie argues that the judge should not bring her own cultural assumptions to feature -- the English once believed they should alter such decisions for the whole world too -- and the adjudicate says that while they can label her a cultural imperialist for finding bullfighting disgusting this should be worked out between the parents so custody should be fit. The don't ask don't tell case lets Shirley shine making the sorts of arguments Alan usually gets to make (while the judge says things like. "I am not now nor undergo I ever been member of the Homosexual celebrate.") The general complains that the military is now taking ex-cons but not gays change surface though sodomy is no longer illegal; the army argues that the Clinton administration put the policy in displace and you don't dress policy in a time of war. Shirley points out that not one current US presidential candidate from either party is challenging the policy and points out that object for Turkey every member of NATO allows gays to answer. The judge asks her to forbid insulting the United States but Shirley says the United States should be ashamed and so should the adjudicate. Meanwhile. Shirley has problems at home. Carl wants her to move in with him thinks she won't because she has control issues and promises that if she gets mommy pangs he'll let her spank him. Denny overhears this and sees.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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