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I went to a cemetery today, the one where the embalmed body was buried on day three after I had turned 9 while the air smelled of salt and marbled checkerboard tiles that were blanketed with moldy dust. It was all old. And everything was in grayscale--the stained glass windows on the blessing house allowed the light to shine through gloriously onto ( Read more... )

and so sick of the frost dripping down window panes and freezing into shapes of anatomical hearts, and its veins and capillaries connecting everything in the lattice of th-th-- ...this everything, and creating this unbelievably wretched concinnity in your anatomy, and in your crooked teeth and glazed eyes,
but never mine.

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A simple way to make your self-esteem rise within seconds!
1. Take picture of yourself.
2. Wince.
3. Turn on any television news station or head to a news-oriented website [i.e. http://www.cnn.com ]

You are on the road to success!


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It's like how you have those dreams that wake you up in the predawn hours with the sweat dripping down the vertebrae as you throw your torso up towards the ceiling and the blood rushes through your arteries to your skull.
Identity crises;
You'll just keep saying "no..no, sir, i iii i i can't believe this, this isn't me" and they will make you shake ( Read more... )

somehow, all of the As and Bs and impeccables and excellents never add up to what they need to be to keep my satisfaction at an adequate level ( Read more... )

in·flu·ence
n.
1. A power affecting a person, thing, or course of events, especially one that operates without any direct or apparent effort.

I want to be influential, but I do not want to influence anyone.

This makes perfect sense to me.