the word for the week is delineate
At this exact moment in time, I am considered "uninteresting" by most standards. I'm one of those obnoxious students at the University of Alabama, a school notorious for partying and football. My partying days are on hiatus and I've never been much for football, so I've resorted to hobbies such as recycling and whittling. I'm lying about the whittling. I read instead. I also like to make shit that catches the eye. That's probably why I'm trying to get a degree in advertising, despite that it is pretty much the most evil industry ever. I paint, I doodle, I create on a daily basis. I also enjoy writing letters to my Kissy-Kins when I have the time. I aspire to have a house with hardwood floors and a black cat named D'arcy, but I've checked out the real estate around here and residing in buildings with hardwood floors that fit my budget would probably give me a case of chronic pneumonia and/or hepatitus.Update: So I did the historic building thing and stayed sick in the brain for the entire summer. The cockroaches weren't a good substitute for the D'arcy end of the plan.
Curiosity
may have killed the cat; more likely
the cat was just unlucky, or else curious
to see what death was like, having no cause
to go on licking paws, or fathering
litter on litter of kittens, predictably.
Nevertheless, to be curious
is dangerous enough. To distrust
what is always said, what seems
to ask odd questions, interfere in dreams,
leave home, smell rats, have hunches
do not endear cats to those doggy circles
where well-smelt baskets, suitable wives, good lunches
are the order of things, and where prevails
much wagging of incurious heads and tails.
Face it. Curiosity
will not cause us to die--
only lack of it will.
Never to want to see
the other side of the hill
or that improbable country
where living is an idyll
(although a probable hell)
would kill us all.
Only the curious have, if they live, a tale
worth telling at all.
Dogs say cats love too much, are irresponsible,
are changeable, marry too many wives,
desert their children, chill all dinner tables
with tales of their nine lives.
Well, they are lucky. Let them be
nine-lived and contradictory,
curious enough to change, prepared to pay
the cat price, which is to die
and die again and again,
each time with no less pain.
A cat minority of one
is all that can be counted on
to tell the truth. And what cats have to tell
on each return from hell
is this: that dying is what the living do,
that dying is what the loving do,
and that dead dogs are those who do not know
that dying is what, to live, each has to do.
--Alastair Reid
