Thursday Apr 12, 2007

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He came dancing across the water, with stallions and guns
-Neil Young-
"Cortez The Killer"

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Tenochtitlan

golden sun drips the horizon shadows stalk the ground
gold lust blown from the East shadows stalk the ground

floating dazzle garden city light
blood nourished serpent shadows stalk the ground

burst of splendor slipping under
whisper blood contagion shadows stalk the ground

continental dreamstate wide wide eyes
architect of destiny shadows stalk the ground

eye of the weather whirling season
dead leaves scatter shadows stalk the ground

harvest moon drinks the sky
civilization eclipse shadows stalk the ground



Spoilered is a ghazal I've been working on - Persian love poetry, you'll notice the refrain ... I'm not terribly pleased with it, but there it is

with the end of the semester pressing down, stress has pushed out a few lingering cold-like symptoms. under the weather and under the gun - isn't that always the case. imbibing tea by the gulpful - tea and dark drinking chocolate (along with the nasty hot chocolate Dunkin' Donuts is serving up).

Spring is not co-operating - but I don't care. I'm having Spring in my soul already.

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y:
Thanks smile

Academies are not for everyone; non-academies are not for everyone; non-everyone is not for academies; everybody's academies are for somebody's; somebody's academies are for nobody's.....................

ooo aaa

I should only be away a month or two, something like that. And when I come back I think I'll be making myself minimal.
lassie:
Today, I'd settle for relief from my bosslady. Too long and mundane of a story to spew altogether into this "hallowed" space, but I was called in and reprimanded for sending her a somewhat harsh email last week and cc'ing her boss on it. She told me I needed to stand back and think about the tone of my emails before I sent them. I said, "I did. I knew I would get in trouble for jumping chain of command, and it was worth it." She is conciliatory to an extreme, and when I go to her with a problem, she "asks" whether it is something I'm doing, instead of moving to solve the problem. So I laid it out for her phoniness today, because I cannot keep working nights and weekends to compensate for the procedural inefficiences. Funny thing is, the 3 managers and director spent their own "strategy" meeting on my issue today, and now the inefficiencies are being seriously investigated for redress in six different areas. If people keep rewarding me for being a straight-shooting asshole, no telling what might happen. Maybe they are all afraid of me, too, huh? I noticed her hands were shaking; that's when I relaxed and nailed her every evasion to plainspoken daylight. I told her I was honest; she said no one had ever called her integrity into question; I said I wasn't calling her integrity into question but was calling her directness into question.

The terror is always there for me, too, even in a mundane office setting where people may well be more afraid of me than I realize. My father died on me, and, ever since, I'm terrified I'll lose everything, any minute now . . .

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