Day 31: We are all the same, we are all different

"Docta MLK Jr."
"No, it's Dr. MLKJ."
"MLKJ--J?"
"J for Jr, stupid."

Day 22: I look pretty young, but I'm just backdated

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
-Abraham Lincoln

Day 20: For you I'll be the man in the iron mask

He looked a lot like Che Guevara, drove a diesel van
Kept his gun in quiet seclusion, such a humble man

Days 18 & 19: My bags are packed, I'm ready to go...

Day 19: I've got no deeds to do, no promises to keep...

"He [Jesus Christ]loves you so much, I mean I can feel it, you know? It's just--uh, my eyes are getting teary--He loves you. He loves all of us." as said by the lovely Korean woman who saved my soul in Grand Central.



Day 18: "I'm writing this off as a Sanity Expense."

Welcome to my life, tattoo.

Day 17: Come in she said I'll give you, shelter from the storm

"To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold."

Day 16: Sorry!

Move 4 spaces backward.

Day 15: Little Big A

First grade babies
Second grade tots
Third grade angels
Fourth grade snots
Fifth grade peaches
Sixth grade plums
And all the rest are
Dirty Bums!

Day 14: I am gonna march you over to the zoo and feed you to the yak.

And I said what about "Breakfast at Tiffany's?
She said, "I think I remember the film,
And as I recall, I think, we both kinda liked it."
And I said, "Well, that's the one thing we've got."

Day 10: If I were a painter and could paint a memory...

"If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it heavy walls, and we will furnish it with soft red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweler's felt so that we should never hear it.
Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does."
-excerpt from Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Day 09: Who, being loved, is poor?

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

Day 07: I went walking with my mama one day

Mama told me what I should know,
Too much candy gonna rot your soul,
If she loves you, let her go,
'cause love only gets you down.

Day 05: Don't be thick in front of me, Al.

I wanna make you smile whenever you're sad
Carry you around when your arthritis is bad
All I wanna do
is grow old with you.

Day 04: I try counting sheep, but there's one I always miss

I need some sleep time to put the old horse down
I'm in too deep and the wheels keep spinning round

Day 03: I love you more than ever, more than time and more than love

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."

-excerpt from The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Day 02: And the sun came out.

"What a lucky day this is!" thought Sylvester. "From now on I can have anything I want. My father and mother can have anything they want. My relatives, my friends, and anybody at all can have everything anybody wants!"
-excerpt from Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

Day 01: Fall in love or fall in hate.

Leave me your stardust to remember you by...