So, I haven't been able to log in to livejournal for months because I forgot the password and no longer had access to the e-mail account that the password reminders were sent to. Then today, I magically guessed the password on the second try ( Read more... )

I was in love with someone who felt nothing of the same for me. This became the baseline of my living; suddenly "You've Really Got a Hold on Me' was transferred from a campy Motown jingle to an all too knowing depiction of my current state. Never before had I noticed the sighing slow movement of the brass instruments, the mocking little piano ( Read more... )

I almost wish that it was dramatically awful, concretely painful, with weeping and sighing and gnashing of teeth. That it was waking up and feeling a nothing, and feeling the naked power of that nothing, like a black hole suddenly developing in your lungs. That it was never closing an eye, finally kept awake by the real haunting ghosts of ( Read more... )

I sent this E-mail to Vanessa a week or so ago and she enjoyed it so much that I thought I would pass it on ( Read more... )

It's funny, the only reason I haven't written poetry in the few years is because I keep saying to myself, 'I don't write poetry ( Read more... )

I wrote this as a personal essay in response to Milan Kundera's book. It is, actually, how I basically feel about my existence, although, obviously I am not perpetually happy. I am, however, happier than I have ever been, and in a way that does not leave me.

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There is no damn reason I should have to be so alone. I'm smothered by this emptiness, Lord I wish I was made of stone...and another night surrounds me and it pounds me like a wave, God help me, am I the only one who's ever felt this way? * Loneliness is a curious thing. I should not be able to miss something that I have never had, that is, ( Read more... )

I was going to do a whole entry about my new 'Campaign for Celibacy!' and then a brief conversation with a relatively attractive english grad student convinced me that I am not going to be able to pull that off.
I had made stickers and buttons and started drafting speeches...darn.

I am making my return to livejournal. Finally. It's been so long. Unfortunately, I do not come in triumphantly with heralds ushering me in, but with near silence, merely a smattering of applause that is what my writing has become, the embarrassing prose that I am forced to call my own. I miss writing good shit. But for now, the following ( Read more... )

Capitalism is competition at its best. We can all agree that real competition is where everyone gets a shot to compete. Therefore, in order for us to have the strongest capitalistic society, all citizens must have access to the mostbasicof social programs--education and health care (I will not discuss healthcare, however, see the bottom note).* ( Read more... )