March 9, 2010

For Anna (aka: beachgirl)

Based on a dare-deadline-Facebook-status-update. And for all the little fishies.

Crossword Clues (or It Was Better When They Had No Memories)


Not in a tomb or a crypt or buried
at sea without my feet facing east,
not cremated or donated or launched
into space, not embalmed, not mummified,
not fossilized or field dressed by cannibals ...

*****
& the rest is gone.

BUT on a slightly new note: I told my first PhD program thank you, but no today, and it felt...good.

Soon, I'll be able to say with certainty where we'll be next year (well, as of July, really). Yea!