the world is your acorn

The Little Red Haired Girl and I have been reading a lot of poetry this last month or so, trying to find appropriate readings for the wedding ceremony that we both really liked. I thought it might be nice to have some Chinese poetry, so I took a couple of books out of the library. We didn’t find anything we really liked, but we did find some that we laughed hard over, imagining including them in the ceremony:

Impromptu on a Hangover
P’i Jih-Hsiu
I block out the midday brightness with a screen depicting dark woods,
burn a stick of heavy incense, nursing my hangover.
What’s this? As evening comes, I’m ready for a drink again!
Beyond the wall I hear the cry of someone selling clams.

Words of the Newly Wed Wife
Wan Chien
The third day I went into the kitchen,
washed my hands and made the soup.
Not yet sure of my mother-in-law’s tastes,
I sent some first for my sister-in-law to try.

I recently lost my cool with a friend in a public space and will probably cringe about it for the rest of my life. But at least I wasn’t on camera.

“Modern Amazement” [via yewknee.com]

not really safe for work, unless you have headphones.

I laughed out loud. literally.

via Babies Eating Lemons [The Amateur Gourmet]

It’s called booksling. Keep your pens and pencils with your book, and mark your place. Genius. I must have it. No, I must have 7.
Little Red Haired Girl? Lady E? Hello? Anyone out there? Can you hear me? I must have it.

why do we say “the same” and not “the different”?

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