april means spring showers. dew read a poem.

April is National Poetry Month. Find a poem you like today. My friend sent me this one and I feel like I'm drifting when I read it.

"September" by Jennifer Michael Hecht

Tonight there must be people who are getting what they want.
I let my oars fall into the water.
Good for them. Good for them, getting what they want.

The night is so still that I forget to breathe.
The dark air is getting colder. Birds are leaving.

Tonight there are people getting just what they need.

The air is so still that it seems to stop my heart.
I remember you in a black and white photograph
taken this time of year. You were leaning against
a half-shed tree, standing in the leaves the tree had lost.

When I finally exhale it takes forever to be over.

Tonight, there are people who are so happy,
that they have forgotten to worry about tomorrow.

Somewhere, people have entirely forgotten about tomorrow.
My hand trails in the water.
I should not have dropped those oars. Such a soft wind.

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know,
than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
~Samuel Johnson

everything's gonna be alright

I very much appreciated the President's snarkiness in his speech on health care this week. He is having fun. When discussing how some said the health care bill was inviting Armageddon he said this:

So after I signed the bill, I looked around. I looked up at the sky to see if asteroids were coming. I looked at the ground to see if cracks had opened up in the earth. You know what, it turned out it was a pretty nice day. Birds were still chirping. Folks were strolling down the street. Nobody had lost their doctor. Nobody had pulled the plug on Granny. Nobody was being dragged away to be forced into some government-run health care plan.

-President Obama, 4.1.10 whitehouse.gov

tegan and sara

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