"If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...
If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!"
-Shel Silverstein
Chelsea.
21.
Journalism/Creative Writing.
Incurably Ridiculous.
Enjoy!
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Yahoo just bought our souls for $1.1 billion.
Assata Shakur, added to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List 40 years after her actions
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F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
I need this in my life.
It’s times like these I think to myself, “Why do I have a seersucker shorts suit?”
Bluebird
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pur whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he’s
in there.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody’s asleep.
I say, I know that you’re there,
so don’t be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he’s singing a little
in there, I haven’t quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it’s nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don’t
weep, do
you?
-Charles Bukowski
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
Wild Things Group Therapy- Dan Meth
So, the concert reading went well!
An Excerpt from “Talk it Out” — a Stage Play by Chelsea.
FADE IN:
Lights up on a large dining room with a small kitchen area off to the side. LARRY sits at the head of the table aimlessly messing with a flower arrangement.
LARRY
I don’t see why you’re so angry — it’s one dinner.
NICOLINE ENTERS from the kitchen carrying place settings for three people. She goes around the table, setting each place with a little too much force.
NICOLINE
One dinner that I didn’t even know I had to make until a few hours ago. One dinner that wasn’t even supposed to happen. We had plans, Larry.
LARRY
I know, but what’s better than having a nice dinner with the love of my life and my brother?
NICOLINE
You know I don’t want that piece of shit in my house.
LARRY
The kids aren’t even here, Nico.
NICOLINE
Because we had plans.
LARRY
Plans change.
NICOLINE
That doesn’t mean your brother has.
LARRY
I don’t see why you have to be so hard on him all the time. He really is trying to get back on his feet.
NICOLINE
That’s the same thing you said when he was staying with us the last time. The kids still ask where Uncle Jerry went.
Jean Harlow would have been 102 today.
The Dream and the Promise- Alexsandra Mir
