Halls of the Dark Muse

My satirical response to those melodramatics, who want to wallow in their self-pity over their failed relationships.

The Girl Who Did Not Die of a Broken Heart

Let me tell you a story
about a girl who once had loved
but her love was untrue
and so her heart was broken

She thought surely
she was going to die
and for days she stayed
in her room and cried

She would not be condoled
and could ...

Yay, no school for me again until next Wednesday, because I don't have class on Friday, and I don't have class on Tuesday, and Monday is a holiday.

Of course I will be spending all of my time "off" doing stuff for school. I have to work on my paper for my Milton class, and have to start getting stuff together for a project in my history class, plus have my usual reading for school to do. But it will be nice to have the extra time to do those things. Two classes a day on ...

Sunday night I was desperately flipping through the channels in seek of something to watch before I had to force myself to resign to bed for lack of any entertainment to keep me up, when I happened to come across this show on VH1. It was called Tool Academy. The idea behind the show was it was this group of the worst boyfriends, and of course some game show on a music video channel is going to be the thing that reforms them and fixes the relationship. But that is not the really good part.
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From Caravan to Xanadu by Edison Marshall

Only common men fear departure from commonality. The uncommon spend thier whole lives, by and large, proving thier condition

A Girl Alone in the World

Her eyes cried,
tears fallen from the sun,
bitter days passed
and she found herself
standing alone

Looking for philosophy
among the stars,
she spoke in the language
of the crickets

Seeking to find
some meaning
that runs deeper
then the river bed
where the stones
are cool against her feet

A sense of being,
quiet discovery ...