Inspired by Samurai Knitter, my favorite E.E. Cummings poem. A line from it was printed on our wedding invitations:i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
It is, at the same time, a satire of love poems and a beautiful love poem.
9 comments:
Hi Sarah. I just saw the way you were piled-on over at Shakesville about the blood-donation thing. I think the way they treated you was disgusting.
I've mostly stopped reading Shakesville because of the way male hegemony rules the roost there. What you said was perfectly valid and they should be ashamed for allowing men to attack a woman like that on a so-called feminist blog.
Are you acquainted with other feminist sites? There are much safer spaces than Shakesville. Here are a couple of links:
http://rageagainstthemanchine.com/
http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/
http://allecto.wordpress.com/
http://redmegaera.wordpress.com/
Some of them will link to other good feminist blogs as well. Also, I'm bookmarking your site - always trying to improve my knitting (which is pretty crap)!
Cheers, Valerie
Let's be fair - I completely stepped in it at first. I also didn't check my own straight cis privilege before wading into an issue that doesn't really affect me at all.
Thanks for the links, and hopefully I'll start updating my blog more now that cool weather is here and I'm knitting again.
this is SO entirely and totally random but I came across you on metafilter because I am having the conundrum that you had earlier this year (trying to find a heavy WEIGHT yet not warm-weight comforter)...I laughed and considered the chainmail option, which sounds great, really...
I am so so hoping you solved this and have the perfect suggestion for me.
I suppose I've not much to offer but eternal gratitude? but I'd so appreciate your advice!
lynnemarie@gmail.com
I have no reason at all to contact you, but I wanted to. You know that guy who runs Photoshop Disasters? Well, after he posted that one with the offensive commenting about fat people, I wrote him an email and explained to him how offensive he was.
The next entry he wrote had a caption about "Oh, great, now I'm going to get another 130 from angry one-legged people." Again, making a jab at the fat people who dared to get offended by his attitude.
So, I sent him another email. Totally polite, just said that he was really crossing the line.
The bastard wrote me back and said, "Stop emailing me you shapeless blob."
I couldn't believe it. I know it's the Internet, and everyone is rude, but just the fact that he felt he could treat me that way...blew my fucking mind. I mean, I am a person. A person. And yes, I'm fat, but when did THAT become such a crime?!
Anyway...I saw your comment on the blog, so I just wanted to rant to you, maybe as someone who can understand me. And I am never going back to that site. I refuse to be treated like that.
Thanks for contacting me, JPeaslee! Yeah, I unsubscribed from the site on my RSS reader, as well.
To a lot of people, any woman who doesn't fit their personal index of beauty IS criminal. It's something I face like, every day. And being proudly fat or ugly or whev is like, even more of an affront.
Personally, I take great joy from being insulted. There is power in the fact that my very existence has angered someone so much, they've let their thin veneer of civility slip and shown their true, hateful nature.
Thanks for responding! That is kind of a nice way of looking at it. It's like, "I'm sorry that your life clearly sucks so much that you have to take it out on other people."
I'm still annoyed - and, frankly hurt - but goddamn, I'm going to wear that insult like a freaking badge of honor.
Lerve me some cummings. And your metafilter posts. Keep up the good work, MG.
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