The Book

I got the proof of my book today. It looks wonderful and I am very very excited for it's debut! I can't wait until the book party now!

a beautiful damage

there is a barefoot angel
with a broken wing
flying in mid-heaven
trying to sing
it's a beautiful damage
that scar on your heart
made me fall for you
just as you are

adj.: halcyon

these days
in this city
pass by in a halcyon blur
wet streets whisper
their stories
beneath the kiss of
speeding tires
a train passes
a voice is carried away
in the progress of a dream
the silence that follows...

is alive
with possibilities

...and this love of mine

...is of the sort
to lurk in
abandoned shadows
with holes in her shoes
empty and whole-hearted
a love note pinned to her coat
with nothing to prove
but the force of the
raw emotion
itself

ugly

ugly girl
full of grace
heart-sore, damaged
and loved in the
most secret of ways

meltdown

going the wrong way
on a one way street - screaming
for my supper and
i am so tired of this
you'd think you'd hear me and know

A Day

Yesterday was a good day. It didn't start good. I had to be up early for a Dr's appointment that only served as a reminder of the things I'm not doing for my health. I'm not dying, that's for sure, but I could be doing a million things to be better.
After that...THEN the day got better.
I took myself to lunch at my favorite spot: The Noho Star on Bleeker & Lafayette. It's Asian American fusion, throw in a little French and whatever else they feel like putting on the menu at any given moment and you have Noho Star - BEST home made ginger ale around...besides mine! That's where I went today and had Croque Monsieur "with Fontina, Bechamel and Ham on Challah and Green Salad". My GOD was it good. I had never had Croque Monsieur before but I had always heard about it and it seemed like a sandwich I might like to eat when I get back to France...if ever...
What was cool about it was, yes, I was alone, but all the other people around me having their conversations kept me company. The 2 older women to my right were talking about texting, the new show on HBO starring Jill Scott and Facebook (they had it all wrong, but who was I to interrupt. I was enjoying their cuteness.) Then one says to the other: "Oh this is so much fun." To which to other answers: "Yes, this is fun isn't it?" Cute.
Then to my left there was a trio of Hipster West Village Dwellers...Normally I would have asked to be switched just sos I didn't get any of their faux-funk on me, but today I was feeling magnanimous so I stayed and listened and it was just as shallow as I thought it might be, however not as cloying as I expected it might be.
So it was a good lunch.
Which set the tone for a good day at work. =)