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A Poem

Nightclub Billy Collins You are so beautiful and I am a fool to be in love with you is a theme that keeps coming up in songs and poems. There seems to be no room for variation. I have never heard anyone sing I am so beautiful and you are a fool to be in love with me, even though this notion has surely crossed the minds of women and men alike. You are so beautiful, too bad you are a fool is another one you don't hear. Or, you are a fool to consider me beautiful. That one you will never hear, guaranteed. For no particular reason this afternoon I am listening to Johnny Hartman whose dark voice can curl around the concepts of love, beauty, and foolishness like no one else's can. It feels like smoke curling up from a cigarette someone left burning on a baby grand piano around three o'clock in the morning; smoke that billows up into the bright lights while out there in the darkness some of the beautiful fools have gathered around little tables to listen, some with their eyes clos
"I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?" Ronnie Shakes

Christmas Break

First, allow me to say that Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the funniest book I've ever read, and anyone with a sense of humor should read it. ***Disclaimer - Frequent drug abuse and language Now, onto my Christmas break plans. I'm heading off to Virginia to see an old friend. On the way, I'm shooting up to Chicago to see a number of people. Then, I'm picking up a college friend in southern Illinois. Together, we will travel to Virginia to meet up with Daniel. From there, we'll probably go to D.C. We'll also probably hit some slopes. I'd like to check out Great Smoky Mountains National Park and do a little back-country hiking, but that depends on our equipment. I'll leave for this trip sometime after Christmas and return on the 6th of January.