I Guess on Days Like This You Know Who Your Friends Are...

I am seeing Taxi Ride in a new, personal light. Scarlet is in that taxi driving away from people who were never her friends to begin with. She has known all along they could give a fuck but by finally encountering true friends in her life that "are on her side" she is able to see "who her friends are". This is where I am at in my life and I have never felt better knowing who is on my side.

So, dear ones, my release date will not be the same as my favorite writer women as previously thought. I have priorities with my money this month (ahem--rent, gas, electric, the good stuff) but this dream will be my reality by end of September. No fucking excuses.
In the meantime, let me pay homage to Tori Amos, who is 47 today & Dorothy Parker, who would have been quite old (haha) today, also.

Release Date

I know I have been talking about publishing a book forever now, and I feel like when it finally is out there, anyone who comes across it may be like, "THIS little thing is what Mary has been so into?!" but, hey, at-least it will be MY little thing!!;-) So, it is coming along well. I am thinking about wheather or not to try for a little more material, or just keep it short and simple and get it DONE to just finally be able to say to myself, "I published some of my poems!" Afew of the ones I was going to include I have taken out; some are very personal to me and I am not ready to share them....ones that make me cry remembering why I wrote them, that is my clue I should not have them out there. Instead, even while the chosen are personal to me, they have a bit more of characters to them (Boy From The Darkside, Ode To A Witch, to name two) and are more like itty bitty stories to me.

Aaand, I have a release date idea in mind!!! I would like to have the book available beginning August 22nd. That is the birth date of two of my most favorite writers/poets....I have wanted to sort of keep my influences to myself as I hate labels put on artists and that seems to occur once they share who they admire....so, what am I doing? Announcing my release date be the same as birthdays of writers I love, LOL. I won't say who they are yet, but anyone who knows me may be able to take a guess, especially with one!

Later, Mary

Somewhere Faraway

I keep a song on my sleeve on my way

to somewhere faraway

a ticket to the moon I was given

so little was explained as I do not want to go

but must now that i've excepted this unwanted invite

to somewhere faraway.

Are those cathedral bells I can hear circling like mad,

were a couple wed or is someone dead against their will?

Shivers run through me as I pass by moments of tragedy

moments of love gone far away, a child's cry, tears and eyes red

where does all our hurt go?

I keep a song on my sleeve on my way faraway

a ticket to the moon I was handed but nothing was explained

as I did not intend to go but now must since I excepted the invite

to somewhere faraway.

Are those the laughs of children making me smile like mad?

"Anything happy is all inside, nothing is anymore"

the person in another seat says

I ask if theres a fortune teller in the house

but silence remains, I wish I could get answers

Am I living in an imaginary world? should I never smile

at an evil face again? should I not let my heart be used

like a marionette, toyed with ever so softly?

I keep a song on my sleeve on my way faraway

a ticket to the moon I was given but little was I told

I don't wish to go and now must as I excepted

this un-wanted invite.

Book Title???

I have had many moments in my life that have unknowingly been four shadowings. That is, something occured at 1 time, then later on in my life, it happened again or an object or something appeared to me again. I LOVE when that has gone on, so therefore I am thinking of naming my book either 'Four Shadowings' or 'Four Shadows'. Before this, I was leaning towards choosing the name from a poem title, like 'If The Moon Bled' or 'Drowning in Desire'.

Thoughts?