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Diary of Lois Elaine Jelin: Entry Forty-Five

Entry Forty-Five

Sunday Fri., February 16                                  Weather marked as Clear.

Dear Diary,

Got a Valentine from Jean & a ticket to “Belvedere Little Theater” from Miss Sellers. I think I will go. Almost missed the school bus this morning. I think I have a crush one someone—I’m not saying “yet.”

Assembly today. It was nice. Today in 5th period (ceramics) Art & I were talking & he “asked” if “I”’ed like to go to the A.R.A. Valentine dance tomorrow night. I said “yes.” When I got home & asked mom she said yes too. Or O.K. for me to go.

Licked

Sunset Dragon

Inspiration is but fleeting:

A flinching moment in the night.

Its carnal tongue preceding

The shiftless cardinal sin of SIGHT

So with these winds of discontent

I’ll wander aimlessly in search

Of rabble-rousing wonderment

To inflame these embers wracked

With soot.

Because in your absence, in this wake

A flame refuses to unfurl.

IT languishes in malady

Tepid in its stubborn coil

And in this flaccid freedom,

I’m untended in respite.

As in this tone-deaf melody,

An opus spurns its heights.