a young girl in her early twenties gray ever-reaching skies brooding for a storm groped for itself above her the purple flowers of bushes swayed her head swayed in the scent it forgave to her so she would not forget ah a head filled with zombie next to gather all it could about nietzsche cooled off by a steaming cup of cocoa or was it coffee? the professor said she looked sad the girl suddenly snapped out of her thought if there was a thought? quite the opposite she exclaimed ah a song streamed through her headphones a song of missing the one she loved China: her open dorm room window a lit Peony cigarette from Shanghai wondering will the thick stone shell ever crack to feel that way about anyone ever again? ah long-anticipated rain distracted the girl it bounced off the road it bounced into her head those purple flowers spring finally spoke a calm word for the first time since the trip south visions of running in forests with a brown-eyed boy of dreams the girl thought maybe sunday, yes, sunday they promised a thunderstorm we've conversed of thunderstorms we've conversed we've we ah ---your mountain mama sweetheart "The differences between what you hope for and what you end up receiving are part of what makes the outside, the hoped for, worthwhile...and beautiful." ---the Lovely Lou http://www.care2.com - Get your Free e-mail account that helps save Wildlife! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+