In other comedy news, Fake Tilda Swinton is the best thing that ever happened to Twitter.
Don’t have a career plan. Have a list of things you want to do in life, and then do them. I have several of these lists, but they keep changing…rather, they keep expanding. Although I have succeeded in living abroad and publishing a book chapter and some academic/tech papers and articles, I still need to publish a book of poetry (1998 goal) and make a big budget coming-of-age film (2010 goal) and learn two other languages fluently (1999 goal) and start a business (2008 goal) and finish/launch a new mobile app (2008 goal) and buy several apartments in select cities throughout the world (lifelong goal) and have or adopt a child (1999 goal). I also love Gaiman’s suggestion that if you don’t think you can do something, imagine you are someone who CAN do that thing and then act like they would. I adopted that strategy long ago, and the times I’ve actually followed it, good things have always happened.
Enjoy:
Though he thought I was asleep in the sun, I was not. I was lucid.
For a long time I watched his ship departing
until the flag at the stern vanished, eaten by the gray horizon.
Then the gulls came, then the stars. I began to live between visions
of reunion and the truth shifting like tides against the dunes.
Under a tent of yaupons I built a hut of driftwood, using sea oats
for a threshold and the emptied halves of mollusk shells for the roof.
Butterflies traversed the shore. When I held the ocean’s shell
to my ear we were one
vessel speaking to another vessel
about the rapture of the void.