Describe yourself using one band and song titles from that bandChoose a band/artist and answer only in song TITLES by that band::the black keys Are you male or female::girl is on my mind Describe yourself::my mind is ramblin' How do some people feel about you::just couldn't tie me down How do you feel about yourself::grown so ugly Describe your ex ( Read more... )

Mine is a lackadaisical lunacy
An errant printing press
The parchment worn and curling
A right quixotic mess,

Without your hands of tar, dear
Embracing fast my throat
My words fall all dismembered
To phrases you'd emote.

In light of fallen oak trees
Where hung our brunt and pain
The night is weeping softly 
A wraith, ill-gotten gain,

But sift here through the ( Read more... )

her hairy shoelaces ( Read more... )

these tears are beautiful
and poignant
and perfect.

this grief is understood
and right
and necessary.

this change is calm
and weighted
and timely.

this gift is singular
and underestimated
and enviable.

and i will do more than appreciate,
i will bask;

to accept the truth readily
is to strive toward completion
and to seek the form of the

six stringed salvation
hallowed be thy fame
or let your fifteen minutes
be buried with the hatchet.
your tune was plucked ere you were scarcely ripened.
now we dry your memories in a leaflet
of blooms whose season came and went with the cold fronts.
hollow spectres mark the atrium your medleys shadowed
their silent precautions layered thick as dust lidding ( Read more... )

i just finished suzanna kaysen's "girl, interrupted." besides being a wholly entertaining read, it was eye-opening in the sense that, after seeing the diagnosis/reasons (whatever they might have been) that concluded with the hospitalization of suzanna and her peers, i started to think about how many of the poeple i know or have come in contact with ( Read more... )

crosshatch your prose with faceless delirium ( Read more... )

this is therapy.


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mediocre minds traversing the flattest sphere ( Read more... )

a flimsy sloop gone adrift ( Read more... )