I prefer

picture taken by me of me at Kristin Damrow’s Framework showcase

Some things have resonated really strongly with me the last few weeks and I just wanted to share them. Maybe they resonate with you too, dear friend.

I prefer the ocean to the pool,
the vast turbulence over restricted stagnancy,
I prefer authentic pleasures to the ones I was taught to yearn,
I prefer yearning to satisfaction,
I prefer smudges to clean lines,
I prefer writing to painting,
and dancing to writing,
I do not prefer my Roomba,
for it promises me everything but delivers nothing,
I prefer to be a Warrior Goddess to a martyr,
as warriors choose,
and Goddesses rest,
I prefer the color blood red,
for it screams, "watch out world,"
I prefer my body as my home to living in my brain,
I prefer the Sun,
for we are solar powered,
I prefer the Universe as a generous, playful sneaky bitch,
"I prefer [you] to cauliflowers (Woolf p.3)" 

The structure for the poem above is derived from “Possibilities” by Wisława Szymborska. A short and lovely read

My citations skills are a little rusty, the last line of the poem above is derived from Mrs.Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, where Peter Walsh claims “I prefer men to cauliflowers.”

Much love,

M