so you're in good company
Yup.
'Just Rewards (2)'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
so you're in good company
Yup.
I want everything. And if I don't write, I hurt people.
Erika, that is the best thing I have seen in a very long time. Can I tag?
And if I don't write, I hurt people
More fun than therapy, cheaper than drugs.
If you want, Kristin, please. (Although to be completely accurate, I'm my own victim more often than not. But I count as people, right?)
But I count as people
Some people never get to that stage of realization, that not hurting people includes themselves.
For Chino
When we first saw her in the pet store, she was just past true kittenhood, six months old.
"Oooooh!" My daughter was enchanted. "She's all golden!"
She was, too. A cameo shade Persian, gleaming yellow cat with yellow eyes, a purr that could be heard rattling across a room. We brought her home with us.
Fourteen years later, she is skin and bone. Cancer has taken hold. She sleeps on the big soft pillow in our living room, deep into dying. I touch her a lot, trying to reassure, to ease her out. Sometimes, her purr rattles under my hand.
This one's for Capuccino, purest gold.
Aww, deb.
New poem, written in the "Written Right Now"contest at a local reading:
Light-Up Plastic Tiara
The apocalypse is a cable gameshow,
wears Vegas like a tiara,
smokes tobacco straight like scorched earth,
recycles in the late-night slots,
only the stoned will see it coming.
Aw, deb! You're not supposed to make me cry at work! Sniff.
ita, Liese, I loved both of yours. They make one stand back and go "whoa."
I'm particularly bereft of words for this topic. It might be because all I can think of is a pair of yellow shoes with black heels that I had in Spain. Loved those shoes. Never wore them in the states. They didn't fit.