dead_bird jennifer they do come true. I can promise you that. But they may not always have the ending you planned. 000526 ... le chat noir fallen from the tree, dashed by the wind, almost completely devoured by the cat leaving nothing but a tattered wing, covered by scurrying ants 000802 ... Borealis if the cat wins..who shares his victory if the bird wins..who rejoices with him would you? 040225 ... Borealis the trees the wind the sun the sky the mountains and hills flat places.. they care not in such a struggle. no one but the ant. who struggles to scurry over the dead bird. now nothing but a hindrance..a roadblock, a nuisance, in the path of a busy busy being. out of my way 040225 ... jimmy you grieve when someone dies as a learning experience, it teaches you to not let go of someone easy, to press them for all they have, all you can give them. unless of course, you learn the other lesson. 040225 ... . virii_or_edifice 040225 ... nom but i saved it 040225 ... mourninglight walking through a graveyard some graves are covered in fresh brilliant flowers..others are forgotten and lay barren in the darkening sky. still others are overgrown with trailing patches of clover..cracked gravestones..loved by the rain of this lifetime. pausing to think..avoiding the depressions..I saw something dark next to a marker under a short tree.. I ducked down to see more clearly.. it was a dead crow.. It wrecked me.. 041025 ... pete we used to brush his grave with our old toothbrushes... i cant remember the last time i was in that grave yard... 041025 what's it to you? who go blather from