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Poem by Emily Dickinson, Part IV: Time And Eternity, LXXXV

They say that “time assuages”,—
Time never did assuage;
An actual suffering strengthens,
As sinews do, with age.
Time is a test of trouble,
But not a remedy.
If such it prove, it prove too
There was no malady.

Here’s a music video Via UTube, Blind Melon’s ‘No Rain’. It does occur to me, after a bit of contemplation, that I may not have gotten the message that others have gotten from the video for several reasons. The first being that I’ve seen the video only once before today, for at a guess of about thirty seconds when I was ten, and at the time it was pointed out because the woman said the Bee Girl reminded her of me, so I took the music lyrics in that vein. They fit absurdly well, too. I looked said video up earlier today, since someone mentioned it on a thread for music recs. I have, of course, heard the song multiple times, but when watching a video for such a short burst the thing that imprints itself onto your retina is of a kid who doesn’t seem to be able to get any of the adults to listen to what’s wrong. She was dancing and gesturing and the adults just …looked on with blank expressions. I had that enough as a child, why would I want to watch a video of it when it was pointed out? So I went back to wandering around the apartment. The lyrics sort of cement itself in your mind with such a little backdrop and reinforce it as a gesturing of Adult Behavior = “Kids – Dunno what they’re talking ’bout, the little nutters”. But anyway, it did occur to me just a few moments ago that other people who’ve seen the video might just consider it something along the lines of a quaint view of children’s ‘quirkiness’, due to the costume, perhaps. I think the video would have gotten quite a different response with a costume change, say to jeans, a t-shirt and a pair of jellies.

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
I like watchin’ the puddles gather rain And all I can do is just pour some tea for two
and speak my point of view

But it’s not sane, It’s not sane

I just want some one to say to me
I’ll always be there when you wake
Ya know I’d like to keep my cheeks dry today
So stay with me and I’ll have it made

And I don’t understand why I sleep all day
And I start to complain that there’s no rain

And all I can do is read a book to stay awake
And it rips my life away, but it’s a great escape

escape……escape……escape……
All I can say is that my life is pretty plain

ya don’t like my point of view
ya think I’m insane
Its not sane……it’s not sane

With the bee costume it looks sort of cute, now; with jeans and the same song lyrics, not so much.

And now, from ‘A Softer World’ by Joey,

Description- A picture of a red and white fire hydrant cut off at the top, broken into three panels. The first panel asks “What would God do?” While the second panel says “That question is always in my heart.” The third panel states that “A can of kerosene is always the answer”.