tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6529644.post-49672282407427414732008-05-07T09:52:00.002-06:002008-05-07T10:03:55.206-06:00<i>From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories.<br />-Taisen Deshimaru</i><br /><br />twenty days left this year<br />sun is setting on the third grade<br />my heart is filled with nostalgia<br />my mind with annoyance<br />thinking (just SHUT UP!!)<br />and then sweetness returns.<br /><br />I will cry on the last day<br />I will write an epilogue on the plane to Boston<br />and read Anna Karenina all the way to India<br />I will spend 24 hours <br />straight<br />up in the air.<br /><br />stop making up theories<br />teaching theories<br />writing about theories.<br />opting instead for <br />the bountiful yellow wildflowers <br />under a big, grey blue Texas sky.<br /><br />nothing's better than <br />raspberry shaved ice<br />practical world travel<br />and creative completion.Michellenoreply@blogger.com