YMMV post

[varadia]

Winter is always my long dark teatime of the soul. And in that spirit, some things that I have recently spent some time thinking about. There are some obvious pop culture references. Surprise!

1) You can't always get what you want.

2) Sometimes a thing gets broke can't be fixed.

3) Love is pain.

4) When you're going through Hell, keep going.

5) Hell is other people.

6) I am assured, yes I am assured, yes
I am assured that peace will come to me
A peace that can, yes surpass the speed, yes
Of my understanding and my need

7) I can see blue in the sky when it's raining.

8) Emptying Town
--after Provincetown

Each fall this town empties, leaving me
drained, standing on the dock, waving bye-
bye, the white handkerchief
stuck in my throat. You know the way Jesus

rips open his shirt
to show us his heart, all flaming & thorny,
the way he points to it. I'm afraid
the way I miss you

will be this obvious. I have

a friend who everyone warns me
is dangerous, he hides
bloody images of Jesus around my house

for me to find when I come home--Jesus
behind the cupboard door, Jesus tucked

into the mirror. He wants to save me
but we disagree from what. My version of hell
is someone ripping open his
shirt & saying

look what I did for you.

-- Nick Flynn

Comments

[innerbrat]

But if you try sometiimes, you'll fiiiiind...
YOU GET WHAT YOU NEED.


...I have no idea what you wrote in the rest of this post. I was grooving to the head music and there was no room for other words.

♥

[varadia]

It is good head music to groove to.

Certainly better than Mahna-Mahna, which I have had in my head ALL DAY. Even the Stones could not cure me. *sad*

[skygiants]

DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO!

(<3333333333333333333 The poem is indeed lovely.)

[varadia]

NOOOOOOOO.

*starts singing again*

<3333

[agonistes]

I like them all, but I think I like the poem the most.

<333

[varadia]

That poem has long been one of my favorites. SO MUCH.

<333

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Me, three!

[varadia]

\o/!!!

(HELLO, YOU.)

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Hhhhhhhhhhallo!!

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Poem is amazing. Is it yours? If not, whose?

[varadia]

It's Nick Flynn.

Apparently the second time I edited it to actually get the full text of the poem with the right formatting I accidentally took off his name.

*fail*

[genarti]

<3333

For you, and for all of these. (Though I love the poem enormously.)

[varadia]

(The poem has long been one of my favorites. *draws sparkly hearts around it* He's got another one about cartoon physics. I <3 him a lot.)

<333

[sardonicynic]

Echoing the poem love.

Just. Oh.

Thanks for posting this, and sharing it with us. <333

[varadia]

You are welcome. It is one of my favorites that has definitely survived the test of time!

<333

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

I miss you, Lynne.

[varadia]

I miss you, too, Gwynne.

<3