hiatus

it's been over two months since i wrote a poem, which is sort of sad, but is also reality. i like reading over the almost-month of poems and seeing how some hold up better than others, and how the imagery in one poem would find its way into the next.

i suppose it's not appropriate to write prose in a blog intended for poetry, but i'm going to break the rules. mostly because i feel like writing a post that won't go out to my faithful xanga following. one of the things that annoys me about xanga is that i will write a post that requires no response (unless you know me well in real life, and then you can call me) and people who know me peripherally will comment with bad jokes. i think this is stupid. and maybe it's my own fault for using a public blog as a message board for my friends and family.

also, i don't know why i subject myself to chick flicks. i suppose on some level i enjoy watching a love story develop between two characters, but the majority of modern romantic comedies tire me because they are so unsubstantial and unbelievable. give me complex, believable people. make failure and unrequited love part of the story. show me what the heroine does when she comes home at night, alone. let me see her get stuck in pointless activities like TV and the internet instead of using ALL of her down time in constructive pursuits.

end of rant. hurrah for anonymity!