pUsHarDer

Push harder
stronger
slower
alone
and with them
those
that are pushing slower too
Don't give up
don't give in
Push
through
feel it
feel all of it
but don't do all of it
Do what inspires you
Pretend
other people
never existed
and ice cold
was never cool
Who were you in the womb?
let that newborn
guide you
pUsH
when you don't know
stop
stop for as long
as you aren't sure
and then when you are
a little sure
StArT
again
and PuSh
age
time
space
are meaningless
time is eternal
Push

markets are subversive

Sometimes

Concrete looks like water.

Mr Clark

The black man who was born
60, 70, or 80 years ago
in the row house
next to my apartment
who still lives in the house
and does so alone.
was walking around
with his walking stick
and fancy new white tennis shoes
A man with an Indian accent was talking to me
about my dresser drawer that I
put out for someone to take

Mr Clark: You got another dresser?
Me: Yes, its blue.
Mr Clark: From where?
Me: IKEA. its pine, it smells great
Mr Clark: Just wait till it rusts.
Me: Rots?
Mr Clark: Rusts. You put stuff on it and it will smell and rust.
Me Thats what my dad said. But it sure is nice.
Mr Clark pulls out a cigarette. Do you have other blue furniture?
Me No.
Mr Clark What?
And walks away

Happy Birthday Schwes by mary

Some people live a life time

Looking for love

In the street

Searching for tenderness

 in their marriage

Some people travel the world

Looking for companions

People to laugh with

And to ogle at the passerbys

Or to jump in the sea

And giggle in its foam

Some people

Never know how to hold hands

For love

Or hug for life

Some body has never wiped

The hair from a sweaty scared brow

or known

How to be gentle with a growing heart

or careful with a hurting body

Some people search and search

For the truth in others

never having known it

Some people

Haven’t written an honest letter

About their insides

Holding it all in

They haven’t heard a voice on the phone

And known

The kind of day

That voice has had just by its sound

Some people

Haven’t slept in twin beds

Double beds

And on couches

With another

Some people

Haven’t watched another grow

Some people

Haven’t helped another

Stretch further

Some people haven't kept

a bond going

for thousands of miles

over years and years

Some people haven't heard

the wailing of pain

in a heart hurt by disappointment

Some people haven't heard

that wail turn into a laugh

a moment later

Some people haven't held a newborn

and watched 29 years later

when she held her own

Others have judged others away

Those people never had a sister

Flor

For those of us actually still working in August

reaching our burn out levels

here is my gift to you

and gift to me

from the cacti god

the most perfect flor

Women & Music

Great info from women about being in music

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128528494