sanity_blinds realistic optimist you throw words out at me meaningless at first glance. loose association but somehow the words dance. "dee press oh press ess dee ess ewe - inn san it eee. dee hoe say my uh poot ess uh mar tar too me" but if i care enough to sift through the word soup, i make out what you mean and how you feel about Poot. i spend three months trying to get you to shower. i support your efforts, fear loses its power. you mumble to yourself, those not wise to your ways think you are out of it. you are not in a daze. suddenly, you look up and with a mere five words, you surmise a concept complex even for nerds. "it hurts to care so." you wear layers because you are so sensitive you feel each slight handed, but have much love to give. now that you have been so institutionalized, you manipulate with intelligence disguised. so much more human than those paid to care for you, you use their ignorance and let them tie your shoe. this is the game you play and they believe the lie, cuz they see a client instead of just a guy. 040406 ... realistic optimist http://www.theportlandalliance.org/2002/april/aprileditorial.html 040409 ... misstree very nice poem... and the article just gave me a breath of happiness that i'm going to be utterly isolated from civilisation for a few months... 040409 ... realistic optimist that will be nice, although champaign was always shrouded in the cotton wooly brains of infancy. sometimes it's nice to not have to hear about how fucked up the world is. having said that, i've become rather politically active as of late, even giving a speech to the portland city council this week. anyway, that link is to a local progressive political magazine in which i will soon be published (yay me). 040409 what's it to you? who go blather from