What a great title this is!!!\u00a0 What a definition of our lives.\u00a0 I say this because my week is absurd right now.\u00a0 It started last week when Jason came cruising into the apartment in the middle of the day.\u00a0 I was sure that either someone had died or he had been laid off.\u00a0 It’s been 5 years since he has darkened our door home sick from work.\u00a0 He doesn’t get sick.\u00a0 I get sick.\u00a0 I come close to anyone in the county and I get sick.\u00a0 I’m still sick.\u00a0 He is fine now but I am still sick…\u00a0 The good news is that I have new windows.\u00a0 Because the only thing that can make illness more interesting is having to turn your apartment upside down and let strangers parade through the room to stare at you in your pajamas. Laughing and commenting about you in Spanglish, as you ever so delicately blow half your brains out into a Kleenex.\u00a0 Not really but you think they are, because we are all so self absorbed that we think things are about us.\u00a0 Especially the things we can’t define, can’t understand or can’t interpret.\u00a0 I feel that way when my nails are being done and Cantonese fills the room.\u00a0 My wedding anniversary is tomorrow. I propose a Gatorade toast. I’ve been reading poetry this evening.\u00a0 Can you smell it on my breath?\u00a0 I’m sleep deprived and dry-eyed and my fever keeps creeping up on me in the night.\u00a0 A friend of a friend died.\u00a0 I don’t know him but it reminds me that I can still feel.\u00a0 I ran into a stranger on a virtual farm who had both lost and gained a grandchild in one week.\u00a0 One was born and another is missing.\u00a0 Her mother is mentally ill and they just can’t find her.\u00a0 I went missing once.\u00a0 Life is strange.\u00a0 The second we get a good hand, someone reshuffles the deck just to keep us on our toes. God has to make sure we’re paying attention.\u00a0 I had ADD (Absurdity Deficit Disorder) but I’m all better now.\u00a0 Time is the prescription.\u00a0\u00a0 It all makes sense now.<\/p>\n
I shared the evening with uncle Lawrence tonight.\u00a0 Here’s what he had to say…<\/p>\n
Constantly Risking Absurdity by Lawrence Ferlinghetti<\/p>\n
Constantly risking absurdity
\nand death
\nwhenever he performs
\nabove the heads
\nof his audience
\nthe poet like an acrobat
\nclimbs on rime
\nto a high wire of his own making
\nand balancing on eyebeams
\nabove a sea of faces
\npaces his way
\nto the other side of the day
\nperforming entrachats
\nand sleight-of-foot tricks
\nand other high theatrics
\nand all without mistaking
\nany thing
\nfor what it may not be
\nFor he’s the super realist
\nwho must perforce perceive
\ntaut truth
\nbefore the taking of each stance or step
\nin his supposed advance
\ntoward that still higher perch
\nwhere Beauty stands and waits
\nwith gravity
\nto start her death-defying leap
\nAnd he
\na little charleychaplin man
\nwho may or may not catch
\nher fair eternal form
\nspreadeagled in the empty air
\nof existence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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