Lisa K.

Reaching out because I don’t want anyone, anywhere, anymore, to feel: "I am the only one"..... finding another Asian bipolar lesbian (call me, we'll party)..... standing really close to the peephole..... embracing my MYnority identities..... giving in to dust..... seeking my "bee charmer"..... ebbing because everyone’s flowing..... answering rhetorical questions..... being quirkyalone..... documenting my life in quotes..... bemoaning the fact that when you spin the color wheel really fast, you see white..... writing on unlined paper..... mocking normal people..... speaking my mind via t-shirts..... insisting that "procrastinating" and "prolonging life" have the same Latin root..... talking with my hands and face and body..... admitting I need help building that "bridge over troubled water"..... waiting for flannel to come back in style (that's right, I said it!)..... believing in love at 1st sight, but unfortunately, not being the 1st to see her..... ignoring those staring because I’m angry while Asian..... wishing that when God goes on vacation, he’d leave an outgoing message with the # of someone covering his desk..... "turning Japanese"..... vibrating at a different frequency..... filing things under "X"..... watching the Mariska Hargitay Hour..... accepting my limitations and not singing even in the shower..... believing that seeing people in black and white is only okay in photographs..... "dancing about architecture"..... telling "the truth about Jane"..... advocating for the Interrupted Girl..... being one of the L words..... accepting invites to disco pool parties..... refusing to wear makeup, so you’re not shocked by my face when we wake up..... sticking a 4-leaf clover in the muzzle of #13..... holding everyone’s bags when they go on the roller coaster..... chopping onions the wrong way..... pulling the plank out of my own eye first..... burning the 5 a.m. oil..... considering learning to climb coconut trees just to be able to answer "yes" when asked..... forgetting that the edamame’s boiling on the stove..... recycling even toilet paper rolls, but providing intervention for those who pick from other people’s trash cans (u know who u are)..... running with foxes..... keeping "boys on the side"..... learning that capitalizing The first word of each line/Doesn’t make it a poem..... forgetting again that the edamame’s boiling on the stove..... judging those who judge..... earning toaster ovens..... not automatically joining a standing ovation just 'cause everyone’s rising..... wondering if Cobain actually found Nirvana by stopping the agony..... writing the next Gay Female Bipolar Asian musical-memoir..... knowing that Angelina Jolie’s work on behalf of the persecuted started way back in '96 with a movie called "Foxfire"..... identifying with the Slinky, not the ruler..... smelling my cats’ heads..... brewing comfort every morning..... putting forth that anything vanilla can use a dose of chocolate..... relying on Angels in America..... inquiring if it matters that I'M the one who filled the glass half full/empty..... taking off book dust jackets to find different designs..... sucking at math..... not loving you long time..... pointing out privilege..... throwing stones at glass houses... warning that, because religious right-wingers don’t believe in abortion, there’s a hell of a huge next generation of haters headed our way..... checking the "other" box on the census..... planting plans, but forgetting to water them..... "staying gold"..... "missing Saturn"..... thanking a little musical called “Next to Normal” ..... finding Alice Ripley..... Go(ogling) Jorja Fox..... thudding for Mary-Louise Parker..... remembering my Brokeback cowboy... wondering what van Gogh’s paintings would look like if he wasn’t touched with madness..... tipping taxi drivers well..... and, wondering if it's too late to ask if this parachute was made in China. ______________________________________________ More info on me: backwardpress.org - passingwithpoem.blogspot.com - nexttonormal.org - www.myspace.com/nexttonormal - quote-gatherer.blogspot.com. More info on my interests: www.myspace.com/ripleytheband - aliceripleylinkup.blogspot.com - groups.yahoo.com/mary-louiseparkerfanpage - jorjafox.org