I have neither felt fit for the cotillion, either.
But I wear it with confidence, this velvet, doublet
Cinched at the waist with cherry-twisted buttonholes
Like Napoleon's enlisted--cleft on the chin, at the door
Agape with all the tin buttons crumbling in the frost,
One who's taken, by the first offer, sucks it through
A drupe, a domestic shorthand, a plate half-finished
For some sign of my embodied lord, who I occasioned
And caused a blood blister to form, flow on the lower lip
By whose light I first read the dog-eared pages of the passion.
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Unpacking this, I am not certain if it says what I meant for it to say. The tail-end of the conversation removes any doubt as to my originality, given the similarities between Lisa and myself. What I should say is that Jeanette Winterson, Viktor Frankl's The Sun, The Legendary Pink Dots, and yes, that poem, "Lessons in Climatology" are some fixtures I have taken with me as a result of our acquaintance.
I fear the inevitable imprinting that happens with an affection such as mine...
I think I would agree with an astute observer that her life is a rather well-worn cliché: "the U-haul lesbian."
That I even reconnoiter her whereabouts online speaks to the impression I have borne in mind, and not really the person. I recall a command, " not to append me in one of the margins of your books."
I ask you, who began the compulsion to burn up the ground and/or pages of world?
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http://www.ritmanlibrary.com/2015/03/where-more-is-meant-alchemical-imagery-in-miltons-il-penseroso/
"Teshuvah is not an easy thing to do. To begin with, sins spiritually change a person, and the more intentional they are, the more they blemish the person. They break down a person’s spiritual resolve, necessitating Heavenly intervention to allow them to fulfill their desire to do teshuvah."
https://torah.org/torah-portion/perceptions-5773-tzav/
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1190195/jewish/I-Keep-On-Forgetting-To-Count-the-Omer.htm
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Kabbalah_of_Time/6d2TAAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=The%20Kabbalah%20of%20Time%20Wainer%20Kahane%20%22Iyar%22%20%22Issachar%22%20%22thirty-two%22&pg=PA151&printsec=frontcover
This appeared in our local paper, and in WAPO. It describes the sentiment of my mother with regard to my brother and his family.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2025/05/07/asking-eric-parents-ashamed-children-work-ethic/
The hardships and suffering of yissurim (יִסּוּרִים) in life are carried knowing that this was the road map for the ultimate good. When the support is taken away, only then will it be appreciated. This goes for all people.
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