my first conference (which also accounts for this shorter post)
joe footing the bill for me to go, and for me to stay in a luxury hilton are appreciated, but my favorite thing is that the coordinator arranged for me to have a vegan meal at the banquet.

humphrey the bear
does anyone else get flashbacks of this cartoon? i get one whenever i hear certain music clips. i just found it again this week- i don't think i'd seen it since i was 12 or so.
then i stumbled onto this banned disney cartoon about 'hitler's children education of death'!

ee cummings
O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the doting

fingers of
prurient philosophies pinched
and poked

thee
has the naughty thumb
of science prodded
thy

beauty how
often have religions taken
thee upon their scraggy
knees squeezing and

buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
gods
but
true

to the incomparable
couch of death thy
rhythmic
lover

thou answerest


them only


with spring

__________
maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea