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Sunday Jun 25, 2006

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Not a poem....but a great first page to a story.....

Silver Water
By Amy Bloom

My sister's voice was like mountain water in a silver pitcher; the clear blue beauty of it cools you and lifts you up beyond your heat, beyond your body. After we went to see La Traviata,when she was fourteen and I was twelve, she elbowed me in the parking lot and said, "Check this out." And she opened her mouth unnaturally wide and her voice came out, so crystalline and bright that all the departing operagoers stood frozen by their cars, unable to take out their keys or open their doors until she had finished, and then they cheered like hell.

That's what I like to remember, and that's the story I told to all of her therapists. I wanted them to know her, to know that who they saw was not all there was to see. That before her constant tinkling of commercials and fast-food jingles there had been Puccini and Mozart and hymns so sweet and mighty you expected Jesus to come down off his cross and clap. That before there was a mountain of Thorazined fat, swaying down the halls in nylon maternity tops and sweatpants, there had been the prettiest girl in Arrandale Elementary School, the belle of Landmark Junior High. Maybe there were other pretty girls, but I didn't see them. To me, Rose, my beautiful blond defender, my guide to Tampax and my mother's moods, was perfect.
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kenyon:
hey smartie,

you know i love that you're thinking about me from stage almost as much as you love that you're up there. wink my/our friend is still not breathing on his own, and was less responsive today than he'd previously been. boi and i, exhausted, finally flopped down in a park near our house to engage in some prayer of a non-denomenational variety. it felt good.

there were points in my illness where people were praying for me, or mentioning that they were praying to st. jude (aka patron saint of lost causes) and i was like, "you do that. but don't tell me about it. it makes me feel like i'm already dead." but i wanted them to be thinking about me - i didn't want to be forgotten. no matter what happens, this friend will not be tucked away and forgotten about.

smile
Jul 18, 2006
francesca:
That is the best awkward moment yet! Thanks for the story. It made me smile and I really needed it today. smile
Jul 19, 2006

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