do over!

 I woke up this morning and drafted a really painful email (I'll say more about that later). And then I discovered that my pretty spider friend that's been living in my bathroom window died last night, which made me all weepy, which is probably a reflection of everything else that's going on, because god knows spiders have died in my bathroom before.

But then I went and checked my RSS feed and there was this:

My arrogance knows no bounds
And I will make no peace today
And you shall be so lucky
To find a woman like me
 

Today neither will the East claim me
nor the West admit me
Today my belly is a well
wherein serpents are coiled
ready to poison the world,
and you should be so lucky.

All I have is my arrogance
I will teach it to lean back
and smoke a cigarette in your faces,
and you should be so lucky

No I will make no peace
even though my hands are empty
I will talk as big as I please
I will be all or nothing
And I will jump before the heavy trucks
And I will saw off my leg at the thigh
before I bend one womanly knee

I am poison
And you will drink me
And you should be so lucky.

 

— Ishtar Awakens in Chicago by Mohja Kahf

And I thought "YEAH."

And then I thought "That is a MUCH better way to start the day. I'll just start over with that."