Bookend Songs

Rihanna's "Where Have You Been" (2012) and "We Found Love" (2011)

• I've been everywhere, man, looking for you, babe / Searching for you, babe
  

• We found love in a hopeless place
  

 

Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time" (1998) and "Stronger" (2000)

To Waiting

You spend so much of your time
expecting to become
someone else
always someone
who will be different
someone to whom a moment
whatever moment it may be
at last has come
and who has been
met and transformed
into no longer being you
and so has forgotten you

meanwhile in your life
you hardly notice
the world around you
lights changing
sirens dying along the buildings
your eyes intent
on a sight you do not see yet
not yet there
as long as you
are only yourself

with whom as you
recall you were
never happy
to be left alone for long

                      —W.S. Merlin

Black Mask

I rediscovered a favorite blog, Inside a Black Apple. I love her art and the general atmosphere of her online presence: comforting, old-fashioned, fairytale-like and just a little bit mysterious. Anyway, I was looking at the prints on her Etsy shop (there are so many that I want) when I came across this one:

It seems I had that print subconsciously in mind when I took the following picture a few months ago.

I actually made the mask in grade school, years before I was a serious peruser of the Internet. I think it was meant to be a black cat mask (like the print above), but it makes me think of the Bat superheroes. Batgirl was a librarian, so I took and like this picture. It was my profile picture for a while.

Rainbow Meal

Red tomato
Orange sweet potato fries
Yellow mac & cheese
Green peas
Purple shirt
and I am blue.