She lives near the top floor of the tall high-rise, in an apartment her friend once described derisively as "post-pubescent and pre-informed", words she now has tattooed in Victorian script above her left shoulder blade. The homeless man who watches her come and go from the post of his eternal vigil beside the mail drop box thinks of her as Asian, ( Read more... )

thistle down blown loose
alone like never before
fall and change and grow

Once I was the most conservative of conservatives, convinced of black and white and good and evil and heaven and hell. The journey out of that was not short nor was it easy, but it was a journey I had to take, even though it meant, in the end, losing even my religion, and I was more religious than you can possibly imagine. I left huge chunks of my ( Read more... )

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Sometimes, if you let all of your tiny, whiny thoughts simmer for too long, they boil into a simpering whimper of mediocre dysfunction. The full weight of their significance hardly tips a scale of juxtaposed nothingness, a bit of dust and air. When you're a small enough person with sufficiently finite concerns, however, the steam of their steeping ( Read more... )

I just wanted to tell you guys about an exciting thing going on in my life. Why? Well, I guess so you could notice me and maybe leave me a congratulatory comment. I don't ask much out of life ( Read more... )

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Night walks in, every evening, like it owns the place. There is different smoke in the air tonight, spicy and warm. Music taps everyone lightly in the chest. Everyone is looking past everyone else. Metal and glass chatter from behind the bar, bantering wetly about nothing in particular. Lights scattered about only color the darkness, adding glow to ( Read more... )

I have an opinion about the mistakes Obama makes. I could be wrong, but I'm not. Here it is ( Read more... )