( La Martorana )

This is the poem I wish I wrote:

"Out of the thousands
who are know
or who want to be known
as poets,
maybe one or two
are genuine
and the rest are fakes,
hanging around the sacred precincts
trying to look like the real thing
Needless to say
I am one of the fakes,
and this is my story." Leonard Cohen Book of LongingThese are a two poems I wrote ( Read more... )

It's official. Matt has his first publication for creative writing. A story I wrote will be published in a book that'll be in print in Decemeber by a press in Greenwich Village in NY. Also I've gotten good responses from both the Exquisite Corpse and the Paris Review about my poetry. They actually responded with a letter that wasn't a denial ( Read more... )

Life: Strange. Life is good and keeps getting better. There is still the sense of wanting to curl up and be warm with someone in the winter that I have always lacked. It may be part of my seasonal depression, or actually just a sidenote. Even with a billion layers, I'm still freezing my ass off in the attic. I only complain about these things ( Read more... )

I figured I'd start posting a bit again. This may stop pretty soon, but it's an attempt at least ( Read more... )

Hey everyone. I haven't done this in awhile, but here I go ( Read more... )

I'll be home this weekend.

Notice to all my friends. I'm deleting instant messager. If you want to get ahold of me here's my info

Phone: 410 736 2288
Email: monzkey@gmail.com

I'm hoping this is not the last I hear of you all.

I took a bit of a break from this. I'm doing laundry now, so I have an excuse to get on here ( Read more... )

After being told honesty in a friendship will hurt my friendship, I'm kinda feeling that I should just come out and be brutally honest soon. Maybe ( Read more... )