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March 06, 2006
Today's reading, etc.
I did get caught up on my Lenten writing yesterday, before noon even! Do know, reader, that I don't get out of bed before noon for free on a normal day. But Saturday night's plans of Brigid and Bryan and rock music and what-have-you were thwarted by a serious case of the I-Might-Barfs, brought on by your favorite arbitrary rule enforcing restaurant and mine, El Mundo. Do Alan and I really need to be chided for mentioning that Jason might show up to join us? Does the "no late joiners" rule apply to dining room as well as patio? Perhaps they can post an off-putting sign? Sigh. I do have crazy hearts for their burritos, or else I'd never go back to the place where your lamp catches on fire and three-quarters of their staff on duty come over to watch, including the waiter who looks like Drama David from The Real World: Seattle. So I had plenty of rest Saturday evening, in which I snuggled on the loveseat watching a marathon of Law & Order: SVU and muttering every thirty minutes or so, "Maybe I'll feel better in a half hour or so." Pathetic!
So here's today's reading, a poem about your friend and mine, Tu Fu, by good ol' Li Po:
Teasing Tu Fu
Here on the summit of Fan-k’o Mountain, it’s Tu Fu
under a midday sun sporting his huge farmer’s hat.
How is it you’ve gotten so thin since we parted?
Must be all those poems you’ve been suffering over.
Posted by eek at March 6, 2006 05:08 PM
Comments
Beautiful.
Posted by: joe in nyc at March 6, 2006 05:18 PM
Thirteen years later and you're still one hell of a writer.
Yeah, it's me. Older, balder and a lot more mellow.
Write back if you wish. I'd like that.
Posted by: Branan Whitehead at March 6, 2006 11:24 PM