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Welcome to Tatou

to the absurd made certain through sound

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To Build a Fire

In an attempt to stay warm, we burned the car.

It wasn’t starting anyway, and we couldn’t get the gas out.

With the car gone, we moved on to most of the surrounding trees.

None of us were great architects, and we had a saw but no nails.

Besides, what good was shelter if we froze to death in it?

A week later, still cold and ( Read more... )

recessed filters

The worst thing about smoking, worse than the bad breath,

or the wasted money, or even the cancer, is the fact that you

really shouldn’t be doing it. I mean really, honestly and truly

shouldn’t be doing that sort of thing to yourself.

It’s a bit like walking on nails for fun.

When I was four the doctors told my dad ( Read more... )

Sometimes all you can do is pray like hell and hold on tight.

zig zag

One of the biggest disappointments in my life recently has been discovering that cigarettes do not bend. When I was little I watched an awful lot of cartoons and characters who smoked were often fated to mishaps that would find them lying on the floor, leaning against a ( Read more... )

Have you ever locked yourself so completely into a problem that you panic? Suddenly you've lost complete control of everything? You can never make anything right again? I'm there. I can't sleep right now. I feel like I have run out of options. I'm panicking hard.

I need $5000 to attend St. Norbert's next semester. I need to take out a loan, but I ( Read more... )

I have to come up with $5000, live at home, or not attend SNC. Oh joy.

smokeThe cool morning air is still ( Read more... )

Laurie always told us in class that every single word has to be deliberate. I agree. Unfortunately, sometimes what we're saying very deliberately only comes through to us. Oh well. Just toss what seems to me to be a far too blatant title and switch some wording around the way the people in class liked it. Spend 2 hours stressing over the slowly ( Read more... )

So I had some depressing news, and in an effort to not seem too emo I didn't post it here. But now there is good news on top of the depressing news and so I'll tell you ( Read more... )

I tried to write this poem once before, but I was young and it was childish. I think it's better now. I am fascinated by the fixed form. To me, most of them seem so fill in the blank. I've seen hundreds of high school sonnets written in terribly skewed meter, with rhymes so forced they make you want to accuse somebody of rape. I wanted to convey ( Read more... )

So Gerry posted a long one about Huckabee and his run for candidacy. He talks about the potential for Huckabee vs. Obama for president. I was going to respond to that but it became a rant of "Use your own goddamn LJ" proportions, and so I put it here. Remember, this stems from the idea of Obama vs. Huckabee in '08 ( Read more... )