Oh how delightful, don't mind if I do,
Help myself to a cup of this broken-heart stew.
I'm alarmingly hungry, I realise, and moved
By the pleasant aroma and bloody red hue.
Cooked from scratch from a base still fast-beating and blue,
Stir in nursery rhymes, beats and bouillon cubes.
Add potatoes and eggplants then slowly infuse
With a bag of red wine, bits of me and of you.
And I'm sure that it's healthy as sure as I'm true
That roses are red, and violets are violet.
As I sit here alone at this table for two,
Scribbling words to myself and conversing with food,
As I sit here alone at this table for two,
Realising that maybe you're not actually even coming.
And that maybe tonight I'm gonna have to sleep alone
Even though I'd much rather be held by another human being.
And that maybe we only fall in love to have something to do,
But what a lonely and tasteless and bitter excuse
When you're starving to death, even fingers will do.
Cutting out our own organs and limbs to make fuel
For a ship that set sail with a wiry crew.
And the paper boy's there, and the butcher, and you,
And you navigate lost in your vessel of glue
And banana peel, vinyl and driftwood and news,
Tossing violently in your sleeps as you move
Through a simmering ocean of broken-heart stew.

- Amanda Palmer, The Sugar Club, 16/02/09

Read this one first, then write the names of YOUR top 16 and answer the questions on them and repost it. sound simple enough???

1. Kate
2. Sarah
3. Ciara
4. Nicola
5. Timi
6. Rachel
7. Robyn
8. Conor
9. Niamh
10. Seonad
11. Orla
12. Laura
13. Sean
14. Hilary
15. Mairead
16. Helen

Q: Have you ever kissed 6?:
A: Not yet... (keeping the options open! )

Q. Whats your least favourite thing about number 13?
A: The fact that I NEVER SEE HIM ANYMORE....

Q: What's the best memory you have of 9?
A: Ordering Domino's to the Forum Bar and eating pizza, wedges and ice-cream in the rain!

Q: When's the next time you're gonna see 4?
A: No idea, she lives so close and yet so far away... My Nic!

Q: Is number 10 pretty?
A: Better than Angelina Jolie! I swear!

Q: What was your first impression of number 7?
A: Simply crazy... she scares me...

Q. What do you like most about number 14?
A: Ridiculously enthusiastic... again, it scares me!

Q: How did you meet 3?:
A: Well... I suppose it was sometime in our youth but my actual first memory is walking through Tullamore at 12!

Q: Do you think 12 would kill someone?
A: Never... unless you do something to piss her off which could be many, many things! Again, never kill someone!

Q: Is 11 one of your best friends?
A: But of course! We bonded in the Campus Bookshop! After she stalked me! *wink*

Q. How long have you known number 13?
A. Mid-September '06 - I made him into the gay he is today! *swells with pride*

Q: Have you seen 2 naked?
A: Almost... I'm just waiting for her to put on some Britney and bring along a portable pole and strip for all to see!

Q: Do you think 5 has a crush on you?
A: I don't think, I know! He's always wanted me... If only Nicola were out of the picture! LOL

Q: What is the last thing you did with 6?
A: Emmm... I think it was a Tuesday... it's always a Tuesday... Tuesday = BAD!!!!

Q. If you could give anything to number 15 what would it be?
A: Another trip to Boston! She loved it so much the first time I'd send her back and probably tag along!

Q. Would number 3 and number 16 make a good couple?
A: If Ciara turned gay and Helen turned gay and... maybe... well... no

Q. If number 8 was a crayon, what colour would he be?
A: HA! Green - Everything has to be green - an earthy foresty green!

Q: Have you ever been to 15's house?
A: Nope... It's near Greystones... LOL

Q: Have you ever slept in the same bed as 7?:
A: She sleeps in my bed all the time! And then we fight for space on a single mattress... Thank GOD for a double duvet!

Q: When's the next time you'll see 5?:
A: Whenever Nicola decides... She's the boss!

Q: Have you ever kissed 1?
A: Well, she IS my sister... On the cheek, yes... But we're not exactly Angelina Jolie and her brother close...

Q: Have you ever been to the movies with 4?
A: Aye... What was it we saw... Oh, I think it was the Simpsons movie that was the last one...

Q. Whats number 14's house like?
A. Haven't been there yet... It is in OVOCA.... How posh...

Q: Have you ever been angry with 12:
A: Only when she's being to hard on herself!

Q: Would you ever make a move on 16?
A: I do it all the time... Ciaran has no chance!

Q: What do you and number 4 talk about the most?
A: Clothes... or Timi... or Shoes... or Timi... or college.... never Timi!

Q: Do you ever talk to 2?
A: Nope... Can't stand the girl... The fact that I'm her phone-a-friend-for-free doesn't come into play AT ALL....

Q: Would you ever sleep with 9?
A: Niamhie? If I weren't gay... what am I saying? HELLS YEAH!

Q: Does 1 play an instrument?
A: Guitar and she sings like an angel!

Q: Have you ever argued with 10?
A: Seoniekins? NoOOoooOOOO... why? LOVEAGE!!!

Q: Do you think you'll stay in touch with 7 forever?
A: Robs? But of course! She can't function without me!

Q: What's 11's favorite food?
A: I'm not sure... I think she lives on air... Yes, air and Eng

I am the boy who never finished high school, because I got called a fag everyday.

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.

I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.

I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.

We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.

I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.

I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.

I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.

We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.

I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.

I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.

I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.

I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.

I am the woman who died when the EMTs stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.

I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didnt have to always deal with society hating me.

I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.

I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.

I am the person ashamed to tell my own friends im a lesbian, because they constantly make fun of them.

I am the boy tied to a fence, beaten to a bloody pulp and left to die because two straight men wanted to "teach me a lesson".

Homophobia Is Wrong!