Poem of the Day:

Are you melancholic today?


Boy 1: When did you last fool me with your plastic charms?
Girl 1: As you held me tightly in your arms.

Boy 1: When did you last fill me with hope?
Girl 1: As I made plans for us to elope.

Boy 1: When did you last lie to me?
Girl 1: When you told me that you loved me.

Tim'05

P.S. This poem was inspired by Susan Sontag and something I read yesterday: "a smile without happiness is an anthropological signifier stripped of its validating referent if ever there was one. It is the tragic cultural aporia of a social world deconstructing itself before our eyes, the kind of semiotic breakdown of which the late Jacques Derrida always warned us."- Professor Gideon Garter, STYLE, The Sunday Times, 27th March 2005