It seems to me that I will always remain on this slow trajectory in retrograde, each moment lived a piece of wintering like the swift sharp withering of the plum’s burgundy, my eyes always cast backwards, lips perpetually spelling Sundays already devoured. I am made of strong stuff, I know, but the fact is that my steel and copper are of a soft ( Read more... )

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O woe, I'm so sick. All I want is go to bed for a week and I can't, having too much to do and no time to do it in. My throat feels like a flame-bird, raw scarlet and squawking.

Oh, I know, I'm never here anymore and I never got to use the extra icons Aubrey paid for (I made some on my brother's computer and its internet connection promptly died!), but I'm sorry and I love you. Honestly.

I suppose I should step in to say that I am alive, if quiet. also: I am bursting to announce that I am going to see David Bowie and Fleetwood Mac in Brisbane mid-February (!!).

    Perhaps the problem is that I am facing all this in the wrong fashion, with too much fierceness and meanness of spirit, the whole of it welling beneath my chest as a brutish battle cry, ineluctable, while the salty, pearl-plated and gnarled rod I hold within my hand wavers ferocious, shakes. I don’t know how to handle this ocean-staff, this ( Read more... )

    I cannot help feeling terribly sorry for the person who wrote this article.

"I have come to realize this job is a magnificent job."
PRESIDENT BUSH

    I would like to feel very dry inside, deep in my belly, arid enough for my stomach to become full with brittle leaves and desert barren enough for your footfall through my life to sound as heavily as the floral, subterranean gong of a wooden bell. I want to hear the crisp, clean crunch of your bare soles through my glade, to feel the deer stir ( Read more... )

    I hate being good but not genius, a rook with flight but no dive, no beak in which to catch fish, flounder and their coruscating metallic scales that slip, singing, like the oil of a rainbow between the teeth.