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ladyjoust

A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows

Through the wilderness I wander

Name:
Kel
Location:
New York, United States
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Schools:
New Milford High School - New Milford, CT
Interests: (28)
books, bookstores, cardio-kickboxing, celtic music, comic books, cooking, crocheting, dc universe, doctor who, dr. horrible, faerie rings, fairy tales, fantasy novels, farscape, firefly, folklore, forests, jousting, mythology, pennywhistle, reading, renaissance faires, robin hood, stage combat, storytelling, swordfighting, writing, young adult fiction
Bio
I've been many things in my time: farmer, gypsy, pirate, swordswoman, jouster, heroine. Now, I'm just a girl who spends her days selling books to others and dreaming of the day when her name will be on one of those volumes.

Me, in song:

Dar Williams' When I Was A Boy

I won't forget when Peter Pan came to my house, took my hand
I said I was a boy, I'm glad he didn't check.
I learned to fly, I learned to fight, I lived a whole life in one night
We saved each other's lives out on the pirate's deck.
And I remember that night when I'm leaving a late night with some friends
And I hear somebody tell me it's not safe, someone should help me:
I need to find a nice man to walk me home.
When I was a boy, I scared the pants off of my mom,
Climbed what I could climb upon
And I don't know how I survived, I guess I knew the tricks that all the boys knew.
And you could walk me home, but I was a boy, too.

I was a kid that you would like, just a small boy on her bike
Riding topless, yeah I never cared who saw.
My neighbor came outside to say, "Get your shirt." I said, "No way
It's the last time I'm not breaking any law."
And now I'm in a clothing store, and the signs say "Less is More."
More that's tight means more to see, more for them, not more for me.
That can't help me climb a tree in ten seconds flat.
When I was a boy, see that picture? That was me:
grass stained shirt and dusty knees.
And I know things have gotta change,
They got pills to sell, they've got implants to put in, they've got implants to remove
But I am not forgetting
That I was a boy too.

And like the woods where I would creep, it's a secret I can keep
Except when I'm tired, except when I'm being caught off guard.
I've had a lonesome awful day, the conversation finds it's way
To catching fireflies out in the backyard.
And I tell the man I'm with about the other life I lived
And I say now you're top gun, I have lost and you have won
And he says "Oh no, oh, no, can't you see?
When I was a girl, my mom and I, we always talked
And I picked flowers everywhere that I walked.
And I could always cry, now even when I'm alone I seldom do
And I have lost some kindness,
But I was a girl too.
And you were just like me, and I was just like you.



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