I'd like to meet:
Some people that I can rely on. That's important to me. If my friends are in need, I'll be there (if I'm not, there's something wrong). People who don't wear false intellectualism as a defense mechanism. I mean, you don't have to blow me down with your knowledge of minutae.
and thusly...
he sat down at the tablehands clasped around each other
feet planted on wooden planks
nervously the chef lays bare his work
the hunger of the seated runs wild
still, this dish will not do
for a hundred nights the chef toiled
for a hundred nights the hunger grew
with each new concoction nothing would change
until the chef found something so right
so flavorful and filling
that surely, surely, he would be sated
but it was not to be
for as the chef revealed his labor
that drove the noses of the village
to beg on their knees for more,
the seated rose, and said
I hunger no more, thank you chef
and trotted out the door.
and something from the cocktail party...
We die to each other daily.
What we know of other people
Is only our memory of the moments
During which we knew them. And they have changed since then.
To pretend that they and we are the same
Is a useful and convenient social convention
Which must sometimes broken. We must also remember
That at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.