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ninanevermore) wrote2006-05-25 03:31 pm
ninanevermore) wrote2006-05-25 03:31 pm
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Wednesday - Duck!
Today on the drive into work I was thinking that sometimes I am surprised when I look in the mirror and see the face of a woman and not a rubber ducky.
I like the duck's face better. It is more a reflection of me than my real face. My real face is forgettable, invisible, average. It doesn't match what's going on in my head at all.
The duck is bright yellow; everyone notices something that bright. It matches my mind -- bright and strange and more than a little frivolous and silly.
I once saw a grave marker that had no name on it, just a date and an engraved picture of a flamingo. I am going to make it known that when I die, I want a picture of a rubber ducky engraved on my headstone. If there's no money left over to put my name on it after that, it doesn't matter. No one will remember my name anyway.
But I want them to remember my duck.
I like the duck's face better. It is more a reflection of me than my real face. My real face is forgettable, invisible, average. It doesn't match what's going on in my head at all.
The duck is bright yellow; everyone notices something that bright. It matches my mind -- bright and strange and more than a little frivolous and silly.
I once saw a grave marker that had no name on it, just a date and an engraved picture of a flamingo. I am going to make it known that when I die, I want a picture of a rubber ducky engraved on my headstone. If there's no money left over to put my name on it after that, it doesn't matter. No one will remember my name anyway.
But I want them to remember my duck.
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I like old cemeteries; they are always poignant for me. In my little town, the "Old Lutheran Cemetery" is very interesting to me. The town was originally a German settlement, and the oldest tombstones are all written in German. Then, beginning in 1941 (because of WWII), they suddenly are all in English. Some of the stones for married people, where one spouse died pre 1941 and the other post 1941, are in both languages, literately split down the middle.