Italian Woman in Texas: Fly ball; Easy out!

"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base."
— Dave Barry —

Value Proposition

"Honey We're Killing the Kids" -- We, the Darnell's, were one of the first of thirteen families to be part of the experiment, that I and my husband are calling a "Divine Intervention." TLC, The Learning Channel, interviewed me at Trader's Village in Houston, and they liked me. Then they met the kids, and liked them. We were flown to New York for the studio portions of the show. Details of which set in motion a major health change in the kids and I.

I am afraid I still have to bitch out my husband, but he is working very hard to get healthier, and we all are supportive of his efforts.

So far so good. Sometimes I just have to put my foot down and kick some A%&es... you get the idea. If you are looking to sign up for a reality based living channel event, please write to me today. MD

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Dawn, by Robert Bly

Dawn
Some love to watch the sea bushes
appearing at dawn
To see night fall from the goose wings,
and to hear
The conversations the night sea has with the dawn.

If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
Now you know why I spent my twenties crying.
Cries are required from those who wake disturbed at dawn.
Adam was called in to name
the Red-Winged Blackbirds, the Diamond Rattlers, and the Ring-Tailed Raccoons
washing God in the streams at dawn.
Centuries later, the Mesopotamian gods, All curls and ears, showed up;
behind them the Generals
With their blue-coated sons who will die at dawn.
Those grasshopper-eating hermits were so good To stay all day in the cave;
but it is also sweet To see the fenceposts gradually appear at dawn.
People in love with the setting stars are right
To adore the baby who smells of the stable, but we know
That even the setting stars will disappear at dawn.

[First appeared in The Paris Review, #154, Spring 2000. Thanks to the editors for permission to reprint.]

This is from a sequence of 48 poems,
each of them 18 lines long,
which are based loosely on the Islamic ghazal form.
In its classic form,
each stanza stands alone–has its own landscape,
so to speak–and the theme of the poem is never stated.

So the reader has much more to do than he would be used to in the contemporary English poem. When the ghazal has its full development, each stanza in a given poem ends with the same word.
This collection of poems will be published by HarperCollins in April of 2001.