title: With God on Our Side by Bob Dylan

i dont' really like bob dylan, but his lyrics are so poetic.

i'm writing because of a book i just read The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. it is the first of the three that we've had to read for english that i actually understand. the author's writing style and word choice is confusing at first, but eventually turns into poetic and artfully descriptive. this passage struck me for some reason:

"Sally, do you sometimes wish you didn't have to go home? Do you wish you feet would one day keep walking and take you far away from Mango Street, far away and maybe your feet would stop in front of a house, a nice one with big flowers and big windows and steps for you to climb up two by two upstairs to where a room is waiting for you. And if you opend the little window latch and gave it a shove, the windows would swing open, all the sky would come in. There'd be no nosy neighbors watching, no motorcycles and cars, no sheets and towels and laundry. Only trees and more trees and plenty of blue sky. And you could laugh, Sally. You could go to sleep and wake up and never have to think of who likes and doesn't like you. You could close your eyes and you wouldn't have to worry what people said because you never belonged here anyway and nobody could make you sad and nobody would think you're strange because you like to dream and dream. And no one could yell at you if they saw you out in the dark leaning against a car, leaning against somebody without someone thinking you are bad, without somebody saying it is wrong, without the whole world waiting for you to make a mistake when all you wanted , all you wanted, Sally, was to love and to love and to love, no one could call that crazy." - Cisneros, p. 82-83

and to this moment i still can't explain the connection i feel to this passage. the last line in particular, "all you wanted, Sally, was to love and to love and to love, no one could call that crazy"

i suppose i don't have a point here. just something that sparked my interest i suppose.

-katie*