they shouldn't have killed that tiger.

going through old files. I found this from last summer ( Read more... )

I had grasped God's garment in the void
but my hand slipped
on the rich silk of it.
The 'everlasting arms' my sister loved to remember
must have upheld my leaden weight
from falling, even so,
for though I claw at empty air and feel
nothing, no embrace,
I have not plummeted.

D. Levertov

"I will tell you a test. It is unfair. It is untrue. It stacks all the cards. It is out of line with what the composer intended. All so much the better ( Read more... )

Twenty four portentous days. It strikes me suddenly that anything can happen in twenty four days. What disturbs me more is that lurking in the back of my mind is the belief that something and anything will happen. Like Schrodinger’s cat, the very act of observing myself in this way will produce events simply because I am observing them. Is it ( Read more... )

// Snowflakes are falling ( Read more... )

Write these words back down inside ( Read more... )

She said, "why are you smiling like that?"
And I said, "I'm not smiling."
Because I wasn't really.

The next morning I threw it all in the washing machine, took a shower, put on Damien Rice and went to sleep. When I woke up, I ironed my clothes, folded them and placed them back where they go. I put on a black shirt and went to work. Then it was done. And so it is. Just like you said it should be.

"The people there are saints... They let me drink coffee for 50 cents." You catch that Howard?


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