Washerwomans Random Poetry and Quotes Thread

[Washerwoman]

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.

This is a Neil Gaiman quote...of which there are many, and, all of which are superb...

Here's another:

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”

[Washerwoman]

couldn't get rid of the stupid lines

but then i'm a pc iiiiidiot

i just like this...

nothing to be gleaned from it

more than anything else i say

[Washerwoman]

oh...move up the little mousy hand thing...then the lines disappear...hey, i'm a pc genius

hey, it's amazing...i moved the mouse up and there were no lines

then i moved it down

and there were lines

wow

magic

oops, that wow word...gonna get banned....opppps

[Washerwoman]

oh u know me, i just put things in any ole thread...just like u...hehe, wherever i move my mouse that's my home...great song...

have u ever heard his bootleg album...great stuff...i'm talkin' paul young here, sure you knew that...u found out who john mayall is yet?

u ever read any emily dickinson??

which authors do u like?

[Washerwoman]

very sensible...

i hardly recognise u...

get some poetry books out of the library...

it's great stuff...

try writing some...

or did ya?

[Washerwoman]

i want to see his eyes burn into mine

i can't say much now cos it is dead and gone

but the thread that started all of this

has fizzled into

cup a tea, love?

[Washerwoman]

is probably the best quote i've ever seen about how it feels to be in love


if u wanna ban that

then i'll be next

then love

[Washerwoman]

ahh...looks like i'm talkin to myself
hallo, (apostrophe) me!

how u doin (apostrophe not included)?

Beans on toast for me for breakfast

[Washerwoman]

unfortunately i feel happy at the moment

i don't write anything good unless i'm in turmoil

i've had some shitty buggers try and sod up my life

not for the first time

but this last time was

bad

in any case

they have been relegated to the closet

and

i'm in a new party dress

so i don't care cos i got

ribbons and bows

and frogs toes

[bullishwwd]

With all your writing of prose, you ever play any poker. If so, where and what type games and levels of buy-in.

Are you heading up a team of 4? If so, any openings?

Wally