love poems--i'm not always exactly writing about a specific person that i'm in love with when i write one. they get called love poems because of the i-you construct, which juliana said was never innocent. so if you use i-you it becomes one beloved to the reader, even if it isn't so.. this is my experience. but then again, i'm thinking how impossible it would be for me to write a poem in the way i write poems thinking & writing about one concentrated beloved subject. even though i might think i am writing about the beloved, so many words & slipperinesses of language get in the way. i have been thinking lately about how much i get description wrong & it turns into a description of something else, not usually what i thought i was writing about.

even if you don't want to vote for president, consider at least voting in the local elections/measures/propositions. i'm following all the local/state stuff pretty closely. especially in your county, your vote makes a big difference. i love voting. i can't wait to do it. i like when they give me a sticker that says i voted so i can feel proud of it. is this smug? i can't wait till this election is over so i can stop thinking about it & watching cnn.