Title: Coffee and Lies
Author: Erundur Anwamehtar
Date: 09/02/2003

Every day, the women walk by
me without sparks flying, and I’m lying
if I say I’m not disappointed. Fashion
never taught me anything or enough
to start a fire. Fools in Colorado burn
forests on accident, but I can’t begin

a relationship even when beggin’
for a date. I’ll buy
dinner and a rose, even if it burns
my paycheck. Are you lying
in anticipation? I’ll bring enough
jocular banter to fashion

respect for my lack of fashion-
able morality, the modern kind that begins
with coffee and ends in enough
sin to leave my conscience by
the ocean and lying
about how little a third degree burn

hurts. The oven’s touch burnt
my arm. The scar lost fashion
and to the ladies my perjurous lying
about its origins did begin
to languish. How can I buy
so much coffee, but still not enough

caffeine to awaken her? Enough
dates and perhaps I’ll burn
the women’s affinity to “goodbye.”
Do they taste chocolate as they fashion
their excuses and the words begin
to grow like bamboo? Her lying

easily leaves me by the road, lying
in the ditch, beaten with enough
bruises to resemble a man who begins
to lose identity, not just wallet. Burn
this necessity for coffee and fashion!
Hello should come after “goodbye”

when it begins with so much lying.
By the time we’ve drank enough
I’ve burned sensibility out of fashion.

Categories: Poetry

Happy Birthday, Isaac! I can’t believe you’re 18. You’re the youngest brother, you aren’t supposed to be this old already. I feel like I just turned 18 three and a half years ago. Enjoy the ocassion. Go smoke a cigar, but don’t get addicted like Sapp did.

(This is your birthday present ;)

Categories: Life

Hola! Well, school has started off with a flurry of activity. Classwork is beginning to become consequential and various UNL Navigator’s activities are taking up at least 1.5 hours on four days of the week.

This weekend was our student leadership team retreat. We went to Eagle Lake, a Navigator’s camp in Pike National Forest near Colorado Springs, Colorado. While we were there, fog covered the mountain for nearly two straight days. The morning we left, mist still floated around on some mountain tops, but daylight was visible and we could see pine trees, aspens, and the lake.

It was a good time for some spiritual growth and learning about God and his promises and love. I was challenged and convicted by several things the speakers said. Ultimately, it’s great to realize how much God loves me in spite of my failures and inability to live life perfectly. He loves us because of who we are as a result of Christ, not because of what we do. “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” – Romans 5:8.

I met a lot of new people, particularly sophomores who just joined LESTER this semester. Riding out and back I got to know Josh R., Melynda, and Emmy better. Josh is an awesome guy who’s in a fraternity and seriously cares about his relationship with God. Melynda is in a sorority and she’s a neat woman. Emmy I began to know last year because she’s friends with Anna, the woman Matt 4L is now dating.

I feel like there’s so many things and so many people in my life right now. I’m enjoying it a lot although there’s still plenty of things that are minor frustrations and the future is uncertain, but I know a plan exists for all of these things and I don’t want to worry.

“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” – Isaiah 41:10

Categories: Life

カルピス！

Calpis!: Now I can finally get it in America in a non-condensed form! For $3. w00t!

Wizzywig also has assorted snacks and other Japanese colectibles. This isn’t an ad. I’m just excited and wish I could buy some things.

Categories: Good Times