"And you read your Emily Dickinson, and I my Robert Frost..."

[welfy]

Comment to be added. I'm friendly!

Comments

Re: Hi

[welfy.livejournal.com]

Aw, I don't mind that you have me around. I just never know what to think of people who don't post much because I wonder, is the person just not a frequent poster, or have they abandoned LJ for good? Seeing that you must be the first one, I'll add you back. I wasn't aware that you were still reading. :^)

*hugs*

[commonlogic.livejournal.com]

Hello!

Added you...

Also, wanted to thank you for the review. I was expecting to be bashed and abused.

-- Cathryn

[happy-togoblind.livejournal.com]

You like Kurt Vonnegut? I think we'll get along just fine.

[welfy.livejournal.com]

You're fun. And you're very welcome. :^)

[welfy.livejournal.com]

Breakfast of Champions is my favorite.

You know if you end up hating your room-mates, my own room-mate is graduating in December...so if you feel like living in posh McKee with unlimited computer access right on campus and we find that we would be compatible enough to not murder each other in our sleep...well you know where I am. At least online. I tend to wander a lot. :^)

[firedemonlover.livejournal.com]

I'd like to be your friend. :)

[flamsterette-x.livejournal.com]

Hi, I found you through both imthjckaz and persephone767. I'm sorry to hear of your father's death.. I've only just recently begun lurking in your journal, and like your writings. (definitely not like mine) I'm also on the SDMB, if that helps in a decision. :) May I add you?

chalk one up to the friends list

[utna.livejournal.com]

Greetings ala friendsfriends

peace,
Tim

[meowgurlgv.livejournal.com]

Hi sorry for intruding but I found your journal and I find poetry soothing and amusing. I have family in western PA so I can understand some of your thoughts about that. I would like if you added me back but if not thats alright too.
Cat

[welfy.livejournal.com]

Feel free. Lurkers are always welcome, as long as they come in peace. :^)

[flamsterette-x.livejournal.com]

I do indeed come in peace.. I don't advocate violence most times! :)

[apparentlydumb.livejournal.com]

hello, I'm doing your jerk review. please add me. you might regret this later.

[welfy.livejournal.com]

Okay.

Re: chalk one up to the friends list

[welfy.livejournal.com]

Hi, Tim. :^)

[welfy.livejournal.com]

Hi. I must seem like a real meanie because I don't add everyone who adds me. Then I realized that most of my posts are locked and that's not fair to my innocent readers. So welcome. :^)

[meowgurlgv.livejournal.com]

thanks :)

Bukowski, aye?

[voluraqwan.livejournal.com]

Reading the bit of his you posted makes me want to delve more into Bukowski. I tried to get into his poetry last summer to no avail. It was like building a sandcastle in a typhoon. But I just got done reading Crazy Cock by Henry Miller. It's been reported that Miller influenced Bukowski. I love Henry Miller! He's on my favorite's list now. Take care. Post more favorite poems by Bukowski if you will. I'd like to see more of him that appeals to other people. Blake really likes Bukowski. And so had another guy from Geneva who went there a few years ago. I'm wondering what the surge of approval for Bukowski is all about, if his books have been displayed in Barnes & Noble or at Borders, or if he's been reviewed again. What's with the renewed interest in Bukowski? I thought he was gritty and dirty. But the poem I read in your post is sorta beautiful.

[eubulides.livejournal.com]

A few years ago, when I was working my way through college in a cafe in Davis, CA, there was a guy who came in every day, a guy who'd eaten quite a bit more LSD than he really ought to have. He'd always sit in the same chair, at the same table, and spend two or three hours reading Kurt Vonnegut novels, and then leave without saying a word. We never charged him, or bothered him -- he just belonged in that chair, with an over-sugared coffee and a copy of _Slaughterhouse Five_.

While I was working there, Vonnegut came through town, doing the college lecture circuit ("You look at the world a little differently after you've had Geraldo Rivera for a son-in-law.").

And, moments after the guy who ate all the acid left, Vonnegut walked in.

He bought a coffee.

And went and sat in exactly the same chair that the acid-head always sat in.

I wanted to tell him about this....

But I didn't.

--d

[welfy.livejournal.com]

That's a fascinating story. Thank you so much for sharing it. Do you mind if I post it in my Livejournal and credit you with it? I'd hate for such a good story to be hidden in the comments of this post, heh.

I haven't read Slaughterhouse Five yet, so maybe I ought to take it out of the library. I doubt my private Christian college's library would have it, though it wouldn't hurt to look.

[eubulides.livejournal.com]

> That's a fascinating story. Thank you so much
> for sharing it. Do you mind if I post it in my
> Livejournal and credit you with it?

Glad you liked it. Hadn't thought about that in a while...

Feel free to post it wherever you wish.

> I haven't read Slaughterhouse Five yet, so maybe
> I ought to take it out of the library. I doubt
> my private Christian college's library would
> have it, though it wouldn't hurt to look.


I'm afraid I didn't dig through your profile when I looked at your journal. (I've just moved, and am stuck behind a 56K dialup connection for a week or so. About the only thing it's good for is email and straying through other people's ljs.)

What college are you at, just out of curiosity?

--d

(And my actual email is dlobachevsky@hotmail.com)

[wickedeyes.livejournal.com]

I'm not commenting on behalf of being added to your friends list. I feel like the people who you add should solely be up to YOU and not those who simply want another person on their list.

Anyway, I'm commenting on behalf of that picture because wow. It's amazing! Was it taken recently?

[welfy.livejournal.com]

I go to Geneva College in Pennsylvania.

[welfy.livejournal.com]

Well, thing is, since my journal is locked, I feel bad locking out innocent bystanders who just want to read my journal. People who list me just for a name can just leave, but people who read can stay.

Tat picture was taken last November, in the woods behind Chad's house. His dad had built him a tiny little cabin for when he was a boy, and I decided to have a picture of myself sitting inside.

hello

[twoswimy.livejournal.com]

found you through evil_malcom + thought your journal seemed really cool + would like to be on your friends list. sooo... yup.

[gryn.livejournal.com]

If I could just taste one sip of an answer,
Maybe I could break out of this drunkard's prison.

I'm homesick for a place I might have never seen.
Something more than these old feet brought me here, So these feet can't take me away.

No I didn't get here on my own, Whoever brought me here's gonna have to bring me home.

I'm a thousand miles from the chimera I chase.
Home is a sadness, not a place.

Jason Webley "Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Fonder"