you can now find me...

...here: http://kidjumpsearly.blogspot.com/

livejournal is officially no longer my poem dumping ground, now that i have (believe it or not) enough work to stand on its own.

still, i'll keep it running for sentimental reasons, or if i still need to do a good old fashioned angst-blog-rant-a-palooza.

there will be no more linking ( Read more... )

Radio

Mary loves everyone

listens
to the radio

doesn't mind
commercials

likes knowing
somebody's there

loves to
listen

guards her heart with an
infinite kindness

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Winter Blues

it's winter blues that find you home
you think you might, you know you won't
you put the face on, toast the day
you hibernate in hopes of may
you find the blues in all you do
it takes the little parts of you
it's not a crisis like tv
it's what you don't want it to be

it's thoughts that make you walk about
it's not something to talk about
yes ( Read more... )

If You Party Tonight

An old friend looked me up on Facebook about a year ago.

Some time last Saturday morning, a Washington College sophomore, Patrick M, was found dead in his room at Kent house.

Blair C: “you may not remeber me but I went to middle school with you. anyway for some reason or another you and Sly popped into my head the other day ( Read more... )

 
Love Bites

the male otter
bites his mate’s
nose for better
grip whilst impregnating
her sometimes fatally

Liberal & Complicated

digesting the latest Radiohead album
and my upped dosage of Wellbutrin

getting by these days, glad you asked
but not ecstatic, see i’m self-sufficient

it’s empowering not to care about the gov’t,
old friends, new friends, whomever
stands on two legs; they all exhaust me

it cost too much to run away, in many ways
i’d be dishonest ( Read more... )

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
- Chuck Palahniuk

this is what i wrote on a whiteboard in the VA hospital where i work. my quotation was displayed for all of two minutes before one of the therapists (i work in the rehab clinic as a summer student) saw it and said "oh, no, that's not ( Read more... )

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Um, Hi There,

I'm not sure if you remember me, I was wearing the maroon jersey with the W on it? You probably remember this, my little brother was taking a really long time deciding what kind of ice cream to order off the kids menu and then you turned to me, I was at the aisle seat and you turned and asked if I play lacrosse? And I sort of laughed? ( Read more... )

Staten Island Ferry 6/17/07

you’d think the sun would burn the clouds away. but it doesn’t
it just hangs and as we pass islands the whole scene seems to line up
like a mural or a painting signed and framed on the wall
grey and orange: would look nice perhaps in your four seasons

meanwhile the islands take turns to line up and the clouds don’t burn
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