One of the nice things that comes from schlepping all over the country is getting to know people better. I, for instance, had no idea that my new friend Erin at Graco was such a music fan, nor did I know that she loved the post I did a few months ago when I constructed a poem out of song lyrics.
She did love it, and gave me a nod on the Graco blog for September. I am a little touched.
If you missed the poem, it's actually something I found in an old journal while cleaning out a desk. I think I must've written it around the time I moved to Kansas City. I would like to do it again, but my creativity is buried somewhere in the dirty laundry. I think I wrote this for the me I was then, which was me about ten years younger than I am now. That me was very sad.
Here it is:
Let it go, surrender. (U2/Bad)
In my dreams, you were food and wind, (Des'ree)
a bridge over troubled water. (Simon & Garfunkel)
Now I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head, (Ani DiFranco)
reach down your hand in your pocket, pull out some hope for me. (Matchbox 20)
I just want something I can never have. (Nine Inch Nails)
Everything needs replacing. (Dave Matthews Band)
How long 'til my soul gets it right? (Indigo Girls)
Now there's no looking forward, now there's no turning back, (Pat Benatar)
maybe this year will be better than the last. (Counting Crows)
But through it all, we'll never really end, (Love Theme from St. Elmo's Fire)
you're a function of my latitude, (Judybats)
higher than the moon. (Joan Osbourne)
All the years that come to pass, all the years that will be (Crash Test Dummies)
are an equal mystery -- (Indigo Girls)
set the rest of us free. (Bran Van 3000)
