The outrage! The humiliation! We're only the second most expensive city in the world! Beat out by Moscow!
At least we still top Tokyo.
When my first visitors were here, we were walking around one evening and happened to pass a real estate agency. Glancing through the advertised prices, Barbara said, "Oh, that's not so bad... You'd pay more in New York." I was dubious, so I looked closer: "Barbara, those prices are per week."
I've moved into my new flat, just down the block from my old place. I'm slowly settling in. There's still much to be done, but work comes first. My third visitors (friends Amy & Tom) arrive tonight. They're only here briefly, on their way to Spain. I'm happy to be able to offer them a place to stay, now that I have more than a dorm room.
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Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way.
straying planets,
These poems, people,
lost ponies with
Dragging saddles –
and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endless
four-dimensional
Game of Go.
ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.
--Gary Snyder
Before your mind like rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way.
straying planets,
These poems, people,
lost ponies with
Dragging saddles –
and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endless
four-dimensional
Game of Go.
ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.
--Gary Snyder
2 comments:
where are the pictures of your new flat?????
Nice pics of the trip Becs. But like Kate, would like to see the new flat.
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