dear god/santa,

i would really like to get into grad school for the fall. i promise to try my best to make alex happy and to be a good person and try to make things better. if there's anything else i can do, please let me know. thanks, and good luck with that sudan thing. that's really intense.

love,
me

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My photography portfolio is finally up!

If you or anyone you know would like to hire a freelance photographer for an event or private shoot, please let me know. NYC Metro area only, please, unless you are willing to compensate for travel.

http://godlivesonline.com/jaimee/

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WIDOW OF INDIA

When she came to her father,
her grief was full and round,
like a bowl in her hands.

“Now you are half-dead too,”
he told her,
for wives souls split
and half remains with the ashes and catacombs
descending or becoming ephemeral

with their husbands.
Wide eyes blink black and
Her fingers shred air
like separating threads
or the weave of a rug,
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So, I'm in my poorly lit Manhattan editor's office and for the first time in months, I don't have a ton to do. "Impossible!" you say. "There are books to be made and it's your job to make sure that happens!" I would agree, but it's still slow now that basically all publishers have put up the big "out of office fuck you" boards because they're ( Read more... )

i dream about him and usually he's upset. he USED to come give me advice in dreams, but for awhile now, it's been as though he's in some kind of utero ( Read more... )