here is a bit of spring fever to kick off your April. may it be a bright-shiny wet one.
from Moby Dick, by Herman Melville:
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
end quote.
3 of you said:
Wow there is a lot of good stuff in that quote. I think he read my mind and he knows how to say it well and I just know how to agree.
I like it. Yes I do. I believe I will copy you by sending it around to my faculty friends at school. I think I might just do that. And give credit to my niece who thought of doing it first.
And then I shall go to sea.
Or maybe just
to see
if there
is
any mail
in my mailbox.
is that a vija celmins image? love the quote.
neesh - love your poem. hee hee.
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