Apologia

My life is too dull and too careful –
even I can see that;
the orderly bedside table
the spoilt cat.

Surely I should have been bolder.
What could biographers say?
She got up, ate toast and went shopping
day after day?

Whiskey and gin are alarming,
Ecstasy makes you drop dead.
Toy boys make inroads on cash
and your half of the bed.

Emily Dickinson, help me.
Stevie, look up from your Aunt.
Some people can stand excitement,
some people can’t.

Connie Bensley

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Most big companies don’t like you very much, except for hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don’t like you at all

Bill Bryson, Notes From A Big Country

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I have e-mail, a pager, a cell phone, a fax line. I’ve got an answering machine, three phone lines at home, one in my purse, and a phone in my car. The only excuse I have if I don’t return your call is I just don’t like you

Alicia Brandt