Author: Nada Gordon

skirt artist entertainer ESL teacher poet

It’s My Party

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In this bittersweet comedy
crocheted flowers are the ultimate
decoration, complete with faux
trumpet solo featuring hues of powder
pink and orange sherbet
with the words “it’s my party”
in a fuchsia script font!
It’s My Party and I Can Wear a
Tutu if I Want To!
It’s My Party! Everyday! All day!
But especially today! Wusssssup?!
LMAO! You guys! I’m so excited!
it’s my party and i’m done cryin’ –
let’s roar pumas.
Its My Party features a beautiful
young woman smiling gleefully
as wrapped presents and roses fly around her.
It’s my party and …. I don’t know why I started
crying. I didn’t mean to. I guess it is the normal
reaction to the letdown. Lily discovers her boyfriend
snogging another girl one night on top of these
adorable puppy and dog birthday party invitations
and a pile of party supplies, glow products, glow sticks,
Bar Mitzvah Party Favors, Oktoberfest Party Supplies
and Disco Dangler Sunglasses!
and then, and then… Balloon Bouquets fly up like flames from a suttee
into the sky!!

           Singing Balloons
           Personalized Balloons
           Number Balloons
           Summer Balloons
           Western Balloons
           Casino Balloons
           Rock & Roll Balloons
           Disco Balloons
           Fiesta Balloons
           Hollywood Balloons
           Luau Balloons
           Patriotic Balloons
           Bridal Shower Balloons
           Wedding Balloons
           Anniversary Balloons
           Religious Balloons
           Valentines Day Balloons
           Mardi Gras Balloons
           St. Patricks Day Balloons
           Hanukkah Balloons
           Latex Balloons
           and miles and miles of Curling Ribbon

It’s my Party and I’ll Write if I Want To!
It’s my party:  see interactive relationship map

So very blue

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Air Force blue Alice blue Azure Baby blue Bleu de France Blue Bondi blue Brandeis blue Cambridge Blue Carolina blue
Ceil Cerulean Cobalt blue Columbia blue Cornflower blue Cyan Dark blue Deep sky blue Denim Dodger blue
Duke blue Egyptian blue Electric blue Eton blue Federal Blue Glaucous Han blue Iceberg Indigo International Klein Blue
Iris Light blue Majorelle Blue Maya blue Midnight blue Navy blue Non-photo blue Palatinate blue Periwinkle Persian blue
Powder blue Prussian blue Royal blue Sapphire Sky blue Steel blue Teal Tiffany Blue Tufts Blue UCLA Blue
Ultramarine Yale Blue

unbearable sadness

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The Unbearable Sadness of Toaster Product Reviews

Unbearable Sadness of Commentary Tracks

The unbearable sadness of — love letters.

unbearable sadness of naive romantic feelings being crushed by the
passage of time.

Unbearable Sadness of Vegetables

The unbearable sadness of evolution

the unbearable sadness of folding laundered cotton shifts that would
be later buttoned over medical tubing and frail arms

the unbearable sadness of sandwiches running out!

The unbearable sadness of race

the unbearable sadness of this puppet theater

the unbearable sadness of logo costumes

The Unbearable Sadness of Tear Gas

The unbearable sadness of udon.

a near-unbearable sadness of sustenato

this unbearable torturous sadness of so many years

The Unbearable Sadness Of Dimensions

GOD, THE UNBEARABLE SADNESS OF THIS. Where are my Kit Kats? The thing
is, this will, of course, ruin Archie Comics forever

the insect-like reactive nature of those who represent us and the
unbearable sadness of it all

unbearable sadness of his mother’s singing of an old Kentucky song

The unbearable sadness of it not being true.

the unbearable sadness of his comedy, the elegant cruelty wielded
quickly and efficiently like the slimmest, sharpest and deadliest
saber

Unbearable Sadness Of The Cute Dog Of The Day: Sweater Pug

the unbearable sadness of being alone

almost unbearable sadness of the words

wind

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I have been very aware of wind during this experience. 
In the initial crisis, I took many walks through the park in which I felt the wind and sun on my arms, rippling my arm hairs, warming the follicles.
Then there was a tornado that swept through Brooklyn, dropping huge tree limbs on hapless cars.  I understood that.
The sound of wind outside while I am in my room with my cats.
Then today I was teaching and noticed how the wind was rustling the leaves outside the classroom, making the most beautiful spooky percussive sound, revealing the lighter undersides of the leaves (elm? maybe elm), and I thought: well, nothing stays still.
Wind.

not really a "restriction"

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cheese & all veggies OK
but I don’t like roasted red
peppers although
I’ll eat them. so that’s not
really a “restriction.”

I also eat most normal
i.e. to westerners — “non-organ”
meats — from
the approved normal list of
edible animals although I am well
aware of the ethical and health
compromises of doing so.

I do not order
hamburgers anymore
because I do not want
to be paralyzed from the
waist down

I bought a little tartlet
for us for dessert: it looks so
good. if there’s a store near you

let’s get some whipping cream for it…

the only other foods I really don’t like
are capers (but I will eat
them) and certain Japanese foods (sea
urchin, and something called
shiokara) that are really
blecch I won’t eat

// don’t go to too much
trouble. I’m fine with
simple stuff, often just
have salad
for dinner.