Finally. Yes, finally. There is now a political and legal writ which allows a woman control of her body and her life. Even with all of the threats and horrific game-playing and words bandied about (I'm looking at the Catholic Church here...) the right thing was done ( Read more... )

When the Scrabble started
The sex stopped.
And when the sex stopped
The scrabble started.

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Don't you hate it when riddles are ridiculously real?

Mostly kept in
Lockered
Bang Banged up against
Joke jokered with
Held profanities in
Covered my mouth
If there ever was any doubt
I'm to find the coordinates on the map
And wish for them
The place where
North meets south
And the whole world
Peters out

I am superpsychosexual
Dry
Chemical
The deserts haven’t known
Such a spell
Forecasts and dissemination
Eating scorpions in the night
Inanimate objects take on new meaning
The thorax, the head
Come apart in my belly
I want everything
I can’t have
This new focus
Is about to break us
This new focus

Emphatic

Crackled, the air
We are still
Not a word will break here
On a finite iceberg
You at my knee
A chuckle, begin the melting
At the echo
Back and forth
Twelve to one again
Then muddied in its own
Existence
Brake!
Breaks, the brake
Hard
Can only know
Silence
For the lack
Of beating
(I am the antidote
To all of the
Venom
In your spit
The slurs
To the sighs
In your ( Read more... )

The more I leave the house and 'get amongst the people', the more inclined I am to fall right back here.
Comfortable in a world of words and song.
If I want colours, I'll get out paints and do more of that. Breaking in brushstrokes.
I'm really over people, over the assumptions, and the subtle manipulations - I can see what is being done - I'm just ( Read more... )

Electron Microscope

I am blown up
And fractured
Slides
Shared
Particles
On the Big screen
Investigated
With big sticks
And pointers
The men with coats
And opinions said
You’re firing from right
To left
The wiring
Has a disconnect
The shots miss
And it’s obvious
Haywired
Retrospect
(It is either
Hold your tongue
Or mind my

French)

The turnaround came when I realised I was so afraid to ask for help that I couldn't even let the little man with the lollipop stop sign help me cross the road.

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This is ridiculous.

Dirty Laundry

I’ve heard the sounds
Of all my housemates
Past and present
Orgasms
(Ooh) and (Ah)
Oh god
The second coming
Of sleep
Can never come
Fast enough
The walls
Pound and reverberate
Pound and
Shake
The loving is
Perfunctory
I check to see whose
Little shoes
Are at our door
In the light
The sheets hang
From the line
The sight is
Nothing to compare
I’ve heard ( Read more... )

I haven't had a drink in a couple of weeks. I have one more day of medication. Then I have to get my tooth pulled... and then I can't drink AGAIN... this is for the better. I'm trying to live free from the cliche of letting old habits die hard - and just letting the old habits die instead. I am sick of feeling cheap and unworthy in certain hands, ( Read more... )