Words to Live By

Works by Andy Warhol.
(from facebook's art feature. ngayon, naiintidihan ko na bakit addictive sya!)

what would you choose?

a. "get a second shot at childhood -- everything will be brand spanking new." There'll be winter, autumn and spring. Sashimi can be bought off the supah. You'll be drinking tea (for health) and going to bathhouses (for vanity).

b. "go back and come home to me."

marco

Happy birthday, marco!

TEA
from Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy

I like pouring your tea, lifting
the heavy pot, and tipping it up,
so the fragrant liquid streams in your china cup.

Or when you’re away, or at work,
I like to think of your cupped hands as you sip,
as you sip, of the faint half-smile of your lips.

I like the questions – sugar? – milk? –
and the answers I don’t know by heart, yet,
for I see your soul in your eyes, and I forget.

Jasmine, Gunpowder, Assam, Earl Grey, Ceylon,
I love tea’s names. Which tea would you like? I say
but it’s any tea for you, please, any time of day,

as the women harvest the slopes
for the sweetest leaves, on Mount Wu-Yi,
and I am your lover, smitten, straining your tea.