One valuable lesson that I have learned from working in the screw business is that sanity is not a very integral requirement, and rarely a component, of any facet of this line of work. In fact if one wishes to get ahead in this field, sanity becomes something of a burden, while madness takes center stage and becomes something akin to a talent. ( Read more... )

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I have recently been mulling over a certain aspect of the way that I relate to people, and how this particular tendency molds my sense of self and influences my feelings of where my context is in the world. For various reasons I relate to people as if they were living metaphors, representative ambassadors of some idea or force: A god, an instinct, ( Read more... )

Your Social Dysfunction:
Schizotypal

You display social deficits and oddities of thinking. Your perception and communication are similar to those of a schizophrenic.


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Every moment that I am away from work I spend recovering from the shock of what I did there, a paralyzed state of remembrance and disbelief of the absurd nucleus my hours orbit. I draw a breath of halted air and wait:

Breathe galaxies of comfort into me, for you have a breath that is the stuff of suns.

"If those motherfuckers be knockin' on my door at eight o'clock they're gonna find me nappin' like a motherfucker," he said as he packed a hex nut bolt.

I was stuffed into a warehouse to stuff screws into cardboard until my hands bloom with pennies and shimmer with grime.

I have been listening to a lot of Valentin Silvestrov lately. The sad dreamy quality of his music is the perfect staff for my miseries to prop themselves up on as they traverse these last few weeks before finally collapsing. For my miseries fallow me like lambs across glaciers of sadness, but I lead them towards a slaughtering lullaby: a face which ( Read more... )

Today I found a little sun ( Read more... )

Helios upon Hedera Helix ( Read more... )

A wand of coral bending cracked
And fell in folds of sea
Upon the shore, where bursting into crumbs
It spread, like faith on certainty