Saturday, March 01, 2003

THE FRIDAY FIVE

1. What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)?
Do blogs count?

2. What is your favorite novel?
Current favourite is "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen

3. Do you have a favorite poem? (Share it!)
"After the Lunch"

On Waterloo Bridge, where we said our goodbyes,
The weather conditions bring tears to my eyes.
I wipe them away with a black woolly glove
And try not to notice I’ve fallen in love.

On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think:
This is nothing. You’re high on charm and drink.
But the juke-box inside me is playing a song
That says something different. And when was that wrong?

On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair
I am tempted to skip. You’re a fool. I don’t care.
The head does its best but the heart is boss -
I admit it before I am halfway across.


Wendy Cope

N.B. - This was one of two poems I read to my wife at our wedding.

4. What is one thing you've always wanted to read, or wish you had more time to read?
People's minds?

5. What are you currently reading?
"Barca" by Jimmy Burns

:: Posted by pete @ 19:35