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April 27, 2005
Crash!
There went that plank in reason..
I'm so sorry to keep going on about this shirt but it is the bane of my life, I can tell you. I finished it all apart from the eyelets across the front, which will hold the ribbon to tie the thing together. I bought an eyelet tool off E-bay a few weeks ago. I even sat here and read the instructions; it looked pretty easy, all apart from the fact that you need a hammer to whack the thing together. The last time I tried to use a hammer I nearly lost a hand in the process, so I decided to wait for Mr PE to come home and do it for guide me.
So we leisurely put the kid to bed, have our tea, celebrate the fact that the shirt is more or less finished blah blah blah. We sit down together, hammer in hand, read the instructions, open the packet….. Guess what, that E-Bay seller has kindly sent me a PRESS STUD tool, not an EYELET tool. There is nothing eyelet about it.
So tomorrow afternoon, which I had put aside for some serious reading, I will be traipsing all over Cambridge looking for an eyelet tool. I have 48 hours to find one or I will be champion wedding destroyer of the year…
No wonder I’ve got a headache. That would be all the brick walls I keep hitting.
Or it could be those boots of lead creaking across my soul. Which brings me nicely to Emily Dickinson and 'Funeral in My Brain' arguably *the* perfect poem..
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through -
And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum -
Kept beating - beating - till I thought
My mind was going numb -
And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space - began to toll,
As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being, but an Ear,
And I, and Silence, some strange Race
Wrecked, solitary, here -
And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down -
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing - then -
Posted by purple elephant at April 27, 2005 09:20 PM