Sooo I've been looking for my collection of really bad poetry to see if indeed it is as bad as I remember. Once located -- if ever? I might post some of these delightful excerpts, probably not -- maybe the one about shaving my legs -- I think that one was funny -- but out of my portfolio, whereever it is - one poem about shaving my legs is probably the best thing out of the whole kit n kaboodle.
It's funny, I used to gobble up poetry -- and I had this fantastic time explicating lines of poems- and then breaking them down into meter -- looking for hidden symbolism, influence, historical reference - now, I could really give a crap, 2 craps, etc. -- I have some favorite books that I hold dear on a bookshelf - and some include favorite poets, but lately --- I'm banning the literary. I'm embrassing the grocery store novel, the used mass paperback, the "this is not something trying to hard to be revolutionary but it has a storyline and isn't trying to be edgy or raw or stark or have an underlying reference to the humanity of all especially when you compare and contrast it to the works of Rilke,[insert old dead guy's last name] and Joyce -- no, I want to read a book that has a story- is well written with proper charachter development and I have some what of an emotional attachment to the story - it makes me laugh - yes, out loud or sniffle/cry, or [enter wide array of emotional responses]. And when I'm done I feel like it was worth reading -
I don't want to waste my time with something that I get done reading and I'm all WTF? Maybe, I just like different things now, or that I've read so much of the literary end that I'm bored - unimpressed etc. and I like my cheap paperback fiction now and I like throwing them away or turning them to Goodwill. I still really like finding new authors - like Laurie Graff -- she's pretty unknown and her first book was fantastic, "You have to kiss a lot of frogs". Maybe my whole issue is --- I'm done reading about things that are set in [ pick a different century] -- I may not have and ipod but I'm really quite done with anything pre-modernist movement. Ok well my sudafed has officially kicked in and it's time for bed.
My apologies for any run on sentences and fragmented thought or [grammatical/spelling errors]
So as mentioned earlier - I had to have my brake switch replaced on my car. But voila I got a car wash out of the trouble --- can you tell a week later? Nope. The good news however - is that it might have motivated me to get it washed on a more frequent basis -- maybe...
However, those drive through car washes -- are not for me, I get dizzy like dinasaur, and nauseus like a hungry hungry hippo who ate too many marbles -- ok i'll stop this analogy; as is getting out of hand...and I'm sure I can picture a few people telling me to shut up already... and I wasn't clever enough to come up with something about Operation or Candyland ---) but none the less the drive through washes -- not for me. I thought they were really cool when I was a kid, but no more. Just the thought of the blue flaps attacking me or even just the hot water swooshing over the windows is too much to handle (ps. I don't like driving in thunderstorms either)
The other alternative --- is to go to a "wash it yourself" place or get the hose out and do it in the driveway. This doesn't appeal to me either for obvious reasons -- #1. I'm too lazy. #2. Yes, I'm too lazy. #3 I know I'm going to end up soaking wet because the Klutziness always rules "not in my favor", you wouldn't want to see me hurt would you? #4. I know as soon as my car is clean, it's going to rain, snow, sleet or I'm going to park in the migratory pattern of ducks, geese, robins, tweety birds, all of birdkind and be covered in flecks and speckles #5 and... if that by chance does not occur, it's going to be bugs and icky things --- and I'd end up angry and needing another car wash -- so as you can see the best possible solution to the problem is to not wash it at all, or not think about it at all -- until I'm going insane over the dust, salt, poo and dirt and the forecast is calling for rain, yes that would be ideal.
