I'd like to meet:
One Art
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster,
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three beloved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
-- Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) a disaster.
Elizabeth Bishop
Music:
matt nathanson, my chemical romance, damien rice, death cab for cutie, postal service, secondhand serenade, all american rejects, from autumn to ashes, emery, the beloved, bright eyes, cake, green day, jack johnson, imogen heap, john mayer, three days grace, underoath
Movies:
Boonedock Saints, The Office, The Count of Monte Cristo, Save the Last Dance, Pirates of the Caribbean, Coyote Ugly, Phantom of the Opera, Groundhog Day, Wicker Park, Garden State, etc.
Television:
Family Guy, Friends, The O.C., Gilmore Girls, One Tree Hill, Law and Order, Cold Case Files, CSI, and Grey's Anatomy
Books:
to many favorites to name...
