And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. / Bin gar kine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.

April is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

....but it IS national poetry month... 

so i'll try to post some of my young writers' 

latest throughout the month ...because, 

well, in their words, they rock!

There is shadow under this red rock, 
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),

And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;

--The Waste Land  1922  T.S. Eliot 

for more of eliot's the waste land 

have a look at this post from last april

did you catch that

how can the day go when you sat and watched it and did you do so much yet does it and do you have to show and will you look around now or back and stand up it's eight again how can the day go when you with you without you how can the day go when you sat and watched it and did you do so much yet does it and do you have to show and will you look around now

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now ...about last post  :{   just a mix of migraine brain and a clueless ipod touch user trying to write a blog post from bed using some shaky fingers that were beyond frustrated with auto-correct. oh and i couldn't look at the bright screen so my eyes were practically closed most of the time, ha, other than that it was posting as usual. well, not 'usual' per-se, since, i don't ever seem to post anymore... but that's neither here nor there... just consider it an early april fools post from silly me, that way i don't have to be funny today, fewf, what a relief. 
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[fool•ish•ness] ie somethin's fishy....

too bad you can't get a copy of the april fools newspaper that the kids and i have coming out.... now that's some classic comedic journalism, complete with upside down swimming fish tales and catch phrases 


(like this one that has become a favorite):

"when life gives you lemons make lemonade....

but unless life also gives you sugar and water, 

your lemonade is really going to suck."

and another....

"i have connections with energy... 

he's on my speed dial."

ahhh, i love these kids. 
they're funnier than any post auto correct could write for me. 

what a catch...