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Eyesight by A R Ammons

It was May before my
attention came
to spring and

my word I said
to the southern slopes
I've

missed it, it
came and went before
I got right to see:

don't worry, said the mountain,
try the later northern slopes or if

you can climb, climb
into spring: but
said the mountain

it's not that way
with all things, some
that go are gone


Sorry I gave you the finger. I don't know what came over me.

Oh, I remember... BOOKS! Here are some I mentioned and some I didn't...

The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish - Neil Gaiman
The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
Song of Soloman - Toni Morrison
1984 - George Orwell
the Giver - Lois Lowry
Less than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
Man's Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl
Patterson - William Carlos Williams
Garbage - A R Ammons
the Belljar - Sylvia Plath
Franny and Zooey - J D Salinger
Animalia - Graeme Base
Professor Wormbog in Search for the Zipperump-a-Zoo - Mercer Mayer
the Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams
Creature Tech - Doug TenNapel
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware
Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
Collected Poems - Tennessee Williams
Poems of Death - Phoebe Pool
(here's a part of a poem from that)

from "Against the Fear of Death" by John Dryden

What Horror seest though in that quiet state,
What bugbear dreams to fright thee after fate?
No ghost, no goblins, that still passage keep;
But all is there serene, in that eternal sleep.
For all the dismal tales, that poets tell,
Are verified on earth, and not in hell.

Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

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[iwasfrancisd]

The Giver was depressing? The ending was very optimistic. Can something optimistic be depressing?

Anyway, that poem Eyesight makes me sad and happy at the same time. No emoticon can express how I feel right now.

[KateReadsBooks]

@iwasfrancisd they're dead at the end.

[KateReadsBooks]

i look ridiculous with long hair now.

[questionsmirk]

i'm so confused by your videos...what are your religious views?

is there a video about it?

[KateReadsBooks]

No, there's no video about it.

[jhudspeth1]

I thought I was in love with you before!

<3

[KateReadsBooks]

Yeah, i just get kater and kater as it goes.

[breakingdawn247]

I was born in Phenoxville

Is thaat how you spell^^ that

[iwasfrancisd]

@KateReadsBooks Well, I guess I didn’t really look at it that way the first time I read it.

I think the ending was left uncertain because the future is uncertain. I think the focus was supposed to be on their choice and the reasoning behind that choice. The question of whether or not they lived in the end wasn’t important to me. The book wasn’t depressing at all.

But I still think they made it out ok. It's the future. They can transmit memories and stuff. :-)

[LeDuckie1]

you are so superior...party time.. excellent.

[Foodfast123]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez FTW.

[Kellprincess92]

This is the first time I've watched any of your vids.

My socks have been ROCKED.

[ryoXweedXblackpepper]

I like salinger too.

Have you tried Japanese Literature?

It's good.

[RageOfTheKage]

SEAMUS HEANEY.

The Best

[RageOfTheKage]

YES MADAM!

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