three small things

1) keep talking.  this was the message from mohmmed el baradei, speaking at the university of utah today, an event anna and i attended together.  how do you stop religiously inspired violence? keep talking.  how do you achieve nuclear disarmament?  keep talking.  how do you combat global poverty?  keep talking.  i was inspired by his repeated assertion that the very small act of talking, one person to another, can solve the world's biggest problems.

2) chanel.  i've never bonded with an animal before.  don't judge.  i had childhood pet trauma.  chanel is changing all that.

3) small poems.  i let my writing get unwieldy, overgrown, out of control.  a small poem from workshop this week reminded me to get back to my minimalist roots.

lipstick everywhere

all the lipsticks on the counter at a meet n' greet.

here's the array of lipwear in the house today.

sometimes i feel sorry for c., like today, when he heard about the levels of lipstick:  from mac to nars, from wet n' wild to revlon.  the consensus is that chanel is the best for high-end, e.l.f. for low.  revlon lip butters  for low but not rock bottom.

sometimes i feel sorry for boys who don't wear lipstick.  where's the fun in that?

sometimes i write poems about lipstick

four—the eternal nature of god

unborn, undying. . . i come into being through my own magic

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a thousand hands
holding
a thousand tubes
of chanel red
no. 5
& 
painting the roses
for men 
to gaze upon—
the beautiful lips
of god
arrayed &
speaking at once