): slept in too late. unfortunately awake still :(

[concretekiss]

Early yesterday morning as we waited half awake for our table at Magnolia, Elise lay her head in my lap as she'll occasionally do in a room full of people. But her shoulders trembled & I saw she was crying. She wilted over my arm, as I asked her what it was. "I want to be a mermaid!" OH, & I wanted her to, & almost burst into tears myself. What kind of wack-job world is this?
The next 20 minutes were spent @ 8 in 84, the morning after I'd had the Greatest Dream where Kirk Cameron took me to a very important dance & kissed me in front of the prisses who'd hissed at me on the playground. How at my mother's question of why I was crying into my cheerios I howled, "I'm uglyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy."
You know if I think about it hard enough it really fuckin' sucks that I'm not a mermaid, either.

Finally rained here a little, & it's warm enough to drive around with the windows down in it. We had to tiptoe around but we found a Snail Saga.


See these two snails are married & cheating with eachother on the sly
or it is a duel to the death.



or they just met & are falling in love, or they are making a drug exchange


& here comes the husband home from work or this psychopath on a rampage.

I think those three days on the beach desensitized me to dirt. I wasn't too concerned with keeping the earth off this weekend. I like to think that when I wear a wife beater, then somewhere in the world a wife is spared a beating though, that doesn't really stop him from beating her while wearing saaaay ok ok ok ok to bed with me.

Comments

[quiet-flame.livejournal.com]

I swear your children are living poems. And so are you. Only more fun, like books of poetry that spill out confetti when you open them. They should make those!

I hate all slimy insecty things except snails. They are precious.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

I’m beginning to believe that every excuse we’ve ever made for why we have cried was simply to cover up the only REAL & DEVASTATING TRUTH, that is WE ARE NOT MERMAIDS.

[quiet-flame.livejournal.com]

I bawled when I realized that I wouldn't be able to marry Superman. Those devastating truths are brutal.

[definitiv.livejournal.com]

I once wrote a poem about this snail someone crushed and how his wife loitered around the crime scene for 2 days looking for his dear.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

aw little ansgty malcontent. i would scoop you up & spin you around in my shopping cart.

random 3:30 am thoughts.

[jezebelly.livejournal.com]

See these two snails are married & cheating with eachother on the sly
or it is a duel to the death.
why is, "...if you like piña coladas/and gettin' caught in the rain" the first thing that came to mind?

Magnolia.
migas.
me.
you.
lowhumcrush.

Elise = love.

Re: random 3:30 am thoughts.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

hahaha.
oooh migas with Love Butter & two FINE ASS ladies. i find it hard to think of a scene more decadent at the moment.

[octopodes.livejournal.com]

i want to be a mermaid too!

when i was little and we played disney princess games, i always got to be ariel because of my red hair. however, my mom wouldn't let me watch the little mermaid because she thought ariel was a wimp who let the prince fight her battles for her. i was a confused child.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

i was all about Daryl Hannah in Splash. i would even screech in the pool like a wounded dolphin. mama's pride n' joy.

yr mom sounds strong n' stubborn. like mine. ;)

[jezebelly.livejournal.com]

ha!
my sister and i still do that part: "My name is Eeeaheahackackackackackackackackackackack!"

i am going to start using this reply for advancing boyz.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

& i MUST rent this for the girl child next.

[slomosexual.livejournal.com]

Would a male be a merbutler?

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

and then there must be mergardeners? merchefs?

[3g0.livejournal.com]

Awwww elise! I'd forgotten all about those little childhood heartbreaks. Poor girl! We need to find her the most fantastic, besequined and befinned mermaid's tail in the world.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

yeah sometimes the truth his like a ton of bricks.
awwwh. perhaps i shall bury her lil' legs in the sand & shape some flippers for her.

[flightviolation.livejournal.com]

hits, even

[octopodes.livejournal.com]

http://www.flickr.com/groups/snails/pool/