The Bag Lady

It doesn’t take long, in fact it is incredibly fast. You don’t realize it of course until you are sitting by yourself, only seeing your life in fading photographs, but it is a journey all the same.

Children wishing for something exciting, something new, to be older, to be what books promise, living a life with happiness complete. That would have been possibly a pleasant journey, but boring to look back on–for some, some like me who dreamed as a child and imagined an exciting journey.

Would I be Nancy Drew or one of the Hardy Boys’ friends, solving great mysteries? Would I be a teller of tall tales or turn into a mermaid when I dipped my toes into the sea? My favorite dreams of course, were imagined as I watched the Disney castle light up on our small tv. I wished to be one of those girls who ended up a princess with my very own prince.

Then life happens, and the imagined journey turns into reality and even though the journey is interesting and good, it is not what I fantasized.

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Caching Out

memories await

remembrances to desire

a brief encounter

years of saved items to see–

though, do I really want to?

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A storage unit set up over twenty years ago, seems a lifetime ago with all my changes, yet it looms.

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Dreaming, listening to ripples created

I feel my dreams may never be sated

Waterfall wishes run strong and loud

Actualized dreams are not proud

Only fantasies, never realized

And knowing this, I am wise.

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Don’t say I didn’t warn you..😳😲

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When making bread

Pound the dough

Scrape flour into the mass

Until sticky no mo’

This might result in bread too tough

But your arms will look great, smooth and buff!

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Donning her butterflies sweatshirt, the organic one with feathers decorating one sleeve, Marie was ready for the day. Her favorite classes weren’t on the schedule so she had to ply a bluff longing by wearing something ridiculous to compensate. Marie often decided to face the humdrum lectures dressed this way, hoping to inflict a bit of irony on the most serious of professors.

She was just opening the door to the biology lab when a terrible vulgarity met her eyes. The aforementioned professor was looking far from serious when caught in a jostle with Miss Pettigrew, the lab assistant. Marie quickly shut the lab door and started giggling. The day was going to be fun after all.

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“The Painted Veil” is not what I expected, but I had not read this book. Of course “Of Human Bondage” was required reading in school. “The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is a reference to Percy Bysshe Shelley‘s 1824 sonnet, which begins “Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life”.

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Daisy  Fleabane, Golden Rod, New York Asters

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The problem, as I see it, is the lack of excellence on your part. I had to take a bromide after reading this tripe! Your falling grades assure that you will never be a denizen of the teaching staff here at the university, even though we both know that is your desire. If your work should not improve this last semester, you might not even graduate!

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