Ode to Sylvia Plath

hands and tears

yearn from the crib--

poetess mother

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

Anyone ever read this by Harold Bloom??

Vintage Faith Church

I am going to miss Vintage Faith Church when I leave Santa Cruz!!!

Especially the 4 and 5 year olds in Sunday School :( :( :(

Glory

Dear Jesse:

Congratulations! It is our great pleasure to offer you admission to UCLA for the Fall Quarter 2009. You have been admitted to the UCLA College of Letters and Science with Linguistics as your academic major. You bring an impressive array of strengths to your academic endeavors. We know that UCLA will benefit from your intelligence, imagination, and energy, and we hope you will choose UCLA for your undergraduate education. UCLA truly is a world-class university. Here you will have access to acclaimed academic departments, a world-renowned faculty, and distinctive research programs. The campus also offers a full range of social and cultural activities and organizations for you to explore. At UCLA, you will be challenged to confront, understand, and master a remarkable range of disciplines that are the measures of a cutting-edge education. Our students consistently remark how UCLA both fulfills their intellectual interests and enhances their personal growth; we invite you to become a part of this extraordinary experience. The New Bruins Web site provides access to your next step: your formal acceptance of our admission offer. It also includes information about important deadlines and your housing application. For your reference, your UCLA Student ID is shown above. Additionally, please review your Provisional Admission Contract to ensure that you will continue to meet the provisions of our offer of admission. For now, enjoy this moment—it is the beginning of one of the most exciting and memorable chapters in your life. Of course, you are going to learn a lot about the world at UCLA. But more often than you might imagine, UCLA will be where the world learns about you. Welcome to UCLA!

Sincerely,  Vu T. Tran, Ed.D. Director

Hurry Up Already

Dear Jesse:
We have received your application for Fall Quarter 2009. However,  admission decisions have not yet been made for our transfer  applicants. We plan to begin notifying transfer applicants of our decisions  starting in late April. Please check with us again around that time. If your name and contact information listed above is incorrect,  please notify us.
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Palm Sunday

Bethphage and Bethany. Mount of Olives.

Motley dozen and One and many. Multivaried, multitudinous.

Sand and dust, sun and sweat, feet and stench.

Two off, village-bound, colt-bound.

Colt-unbound. Re-dozened-and-one-and-manyed. 

Coats on colt. Coats on road. Fronds.

Son of God, Man mounted.

Mount. Valley to city, trail winds.

City gates. Procession.

Man on colt. Dozen and many trail shouting, surmising. Surprising.

Fronds, leafy-branches, from tree to earth felled.

Fronds on path. Royal path.

Fronds waved. Shouts raised. 

Exile. Town and country Israelites all gathered in Jeru-exile sing to a man, pray to a man:

Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna!

Hoshana. Hoshana Rabah. Hoshana.

Come in Name Lord!

Coming Kingdom! Father David!

(Fall Rome. Like Egypt, un-rule us. Us.)

Pharisees bid One quiet dozen and many. 

If vocal chords cease, stones will shout, sing.

Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna!

Hosanna! Please Save. Save now. Hoshana.

Hosanna! Hoshana. Hosanna!

Enter Temple. Very God in very man-flesh in very house doesn't live in made by very human hands.

Into un-yet-called den-of-thieves temple.

Crowd wanes quieter now. 

Will he messiah now? 

Will he temple right, restore?

Son of God, Man looks. Looks at everything, looks. 

Looks at money-changers tables, at dove-price, sacrifice, life-price, Father-turned-His-face-price. 

Sees possibility.

Returns to Bethany and Bethphage.

Returns to Mount of Olives. Mount of prayer.

Turns prayer. Prayer. Prayer. Prayer.

Tomorrow. Fig tree. Whithered tree.

Tomorrow. Temple. Robbers Den. Robbers house. Cast out. House of prayer out.

Tomorrow. Very God to very people to very city to very house by human hands for Him. 

What does it look like?

Messiah to very Jerusalem. 

Comfort, O comfort my people, my Jerusalem.

Confront very power of very Rome. 

What does it look like?

That warfare has ended. O Zion, bearer of good news.

Not what we thought. Not what we thought. Not what we thought.

Hosanna. Hosanna! Hosanna.

Ulysses

In words of words for words, palabras. Oisin with Patrick. Faunman he met in Clamart woods, brandishing a winebottle, C'est vendredi saint! Murthering Irish. His image, wandering, he met. I mine. I met a fool i' the forest.

Best Lunch Today Ever

Santa Cruz Diner:

Split with Ryan Restine...

Patty Melt Supreme and Corned Beef with Eggs, Hashbrowns, Biscuit and Gravy.

In Ryan's words: "Delectable"

No more converse

no more, no more.

No more hurt knees, no more 20-hour-a-day bangladesh factory labor, no more ripped canvas, no more 10-cents-to-make-40-dollars-to-buy-shoes.

no more, no more.

Accepted

...to UCSC

Ironic that Tim is visiting me today.