A few years ago, I worked for a Linguistics prof extracting certain phrases from recorded interviews so we could analyze a West Indian English dialect. These phrases were in an Excel spreadsheet in this order and I was listening to live poetry quite often at the time, so I immediately thought of converting it to verse:

I have no regret living in such a world
a world which didn't have the amenities
but yet we were not rigid

we were not dead to the things
because we didn't have that much
which is not so peaceful

we goes through it, not being a part of it
we are not a part of the world
but it never alter our dependency.

IT'S SO DEEP!! Ha!

I need to make more friends. Tell me, how does one do this without church? I need girls who don't obsess about their hair and/or shoes, people who are literate, intelligent, sarcastic, and live downtown. I'm getting sick of going to events where I just spectate—they're fun events, great Toronto stuff, but I'm not getting to know anyone new, I'm just going with the people I know already and that's not helping. Church was an instant network, a hundred times better than school, and now I have neither. I thought of joining a Stitch 'n Bitch, but I'm not crocheting anymore because my hands hurt. So that's out. Work is okay, but it's always hard to make work-friends into real-friends. What is the secret??? Is Toronto just a horribly cold place? I'm getting to know my neighbours, but they're moving to Israel in a few months. $%#@!!

Labels: friends, poetry