No, it would not be a good idea to slam on your breaks

while driving us across the bridge

so that the girl you think is hot in her helmet

rides into the back of your van.

she might thank you for helping her up

but she’ll never love you after you’ve knocked her down.

You also shouldn’t bother if you’re wearing pants

that are cut off at the ankles and cling ( Read more... )

There's some sort of comfort in hanging out with people who I've known for a long time, even though Y and I have had our long, necessary periods of not talking and staying as far away from each other as possible.  Maybe we've both taken some of the edge off as the years have passed and the disappointment has stopped being such a big deal ( Read more... )

There was a weird, sickly feeling in my back and shoulders yesterday when I got home after work, like I was both anxious about something and incredibly tired, which I was, as the night before we had played a show and I had gotten only five hours of sleep ( Read more... )

I met Robert Lashley for his writing group that he's starting and we were the only two there.  We talked about each others' poems and each others poetry in general, but I it didn't really get going until I pushed Robert to stop being nice and tell me what was weak.  I realized, too, that it's hard to critique someone whose work you are an abject ( Read more... )

1. Please don't smoke so much.  It's hard on your lungs and it makes your heart race and then you have even more trouble than before going to sleep.

2. Once you've gone home, especially if you're drunk, turn off your phone and leave it somewhere just out of the way.  You can only embarrass yourself by calling people because when you're drunk you ( Read more... )

I opened the dictionary at random, looking up the spelling of a word for a student who was unsure, when I was unsure myself ( Read more... )

I don't know where I am anymore.  At the grocery store, after months of not visiting for food, I don't even know what to do there.  I just look at the refridgerator case, think about cheese, fondle packages of noodles and tortillas, watch the boy in the blue smock mop in the pickle aisle, where someone has spilled brine in a spiral pattern.  It ( Read more... )

Apparantly, I am much better at singing both "I'm Going Home" and "Nothing Compares 2 U" then "The Time Warp".  You would think with the number of high school dances and weddings, not to mention six years of Rocky Horror, that that would be the easiest song, forever burned into my memory.  The worst part of the night was that I confused the host, I ( Read more... )

I am back at school. It has been quite a day of not very much, as I thought the students came back Wednesday, and in fact it's not until Thursday, so I have some time to kill. These days before the students are way more intolerable than the ones when they're here. Kyle and I took all of the donated books here down to the two used book stores and ( Read more... )

Sunday, my aunt and uncle come to visit. My uncle is on vacation and they stay for quite a while. After a while, I excuse myself to the basement because I can't stand listening to my uncle's weird racist jokes anymore ( Read more... )