My feelings can best be expressed in a monologue from the made-for-tv movie "Diary of a Stripper".

[raybear]

To the Harbormaster

I wanted to be sure to reach you;
though my ship was on the way it got caught
in some moorings. I am always tying up
and then deciding to depart. In storms and
at sunset, with the metallic coils of the tide
around my fathomless arms, I am unable
to understand the forms of my vanity
or I am hard alee with my Polish rudder
in my hand and the sun sinking. To
you I offer my hull and the tattered cordage
of my will. The terrible channels where
the wind drives me against the brown lips
of the reeds are not all behind me. Yet
I trust the sanity of my vessel; and
if it sinks it may well be in answer
to the reasoning of the eternal voices,
the waves which have kept me from reaching you.

- Frank O'Hara

Comments

[raybear.livejournal.com]

thank you! i was telling DYA that i wish we lived closer because not only was friday a lot of fun, but there seemed to be lots of....potential. but i can learn to be patient. ;)

[kneidlach.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, patience is a virtue and all that. Well, you know where to find us next time you're in town.