OakMonster's Den

Crouching Photos Hidden Papers

My room is 85% cleaned.  10% is paperwork. 4% miscellaneous stuff that needs to be sorted and put away. 1% stuff to be taken to donation.

With this, I found LOADS of old photos.  I also found old college papers, my first American high school report card, my Mater Dei transcript full of A’s and occasional B’s with only one tarnish of a D in what American school system categorize as Calculus.

I found my immunization history and a letter from a Thai doctor certifying that I don’t have any deadly Third World communicable diseases.  Was that something the embassy needed to apply for a student visa back then?

And my college notebooks and papers full of my notes.  From my observation of the crowd in USC Commons, to my attempts at Nikki Giovanni style of poetry.

Boy, did I write good sap!  I guess that’s why my songwriter professor told me I tell love story in a song like a country singer.

Well, I guess I’m brave enough to share these gems for your entertainment.  Make sure to brace yourself so that you don’t fall off the chair when you laugh.

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Thoughts – 2000

My head is in the gutter

Or is it in cloud nine?

Wherever it is

All I can feel is

The thought of

Making love to you.

All I can imagine is

The softness of kisses and

The silence of embraces.

All I can do is

To write it out

To ride out the wait.

The night will come.

And so will we.