the autobiography of an unknown (single) woman

Why is it so difficult for people to believe that one can be single and happy…


She (laying the groundwork) : so wassup? What happening?

Me (wary) : all good, all good. Cldn’t be better…n how’s the baby doin?

She (ignores the sidestepping…hones right back in) : very good. Healthy. Happy. So how do u like the new place? Met…

Me (quickly) : hey hey like I said all fine…I just moved into an apartment ….

She (quicker): …anyone yet? Or still single?

Me (giving up): single

She: oh (pause) sorry…

Me: ... wtf?!?

i carry your heart with me - ee cummings

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in

my heart) i am never without it (anywhere

i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done

by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear

no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want

no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you


here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows

higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart


i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)