they found carlo a liver.

he goes into surgery at six a.m. tomorrow. i'm gloriously happy and unwilling to be afraid. the risks are greater. there's a chance it might become unviable over night, or go to someone else in sudden greater need. there are things that can go wrong. but they won't.

he's swollen and sore and his belly is starting to become ( Read more... )

i'm just so damn sad. i've just seen so much suffering taken on by one person who is innately good, kind, patient ( Read more... )

at nine a.m. today carlo threw up two litres of blood in the bathtub ( Read more... )

I've Left The Tap Running To Cover Me While I Say

i keep having a dream
where i go
and poison the town wells.
i just think it would be so beautiful
for the city to see how really connected we are.

carlo was released today!

his enzymes are "beautiful". he's been set free. his mother dropped me off on their way out of town. he's wearing clothes. he's beautiful. he's going home. 

So I Heard PETA Treats Women Like Meat
My girlfriend puts lipstick on rabbits at the Huntington Life Sciences labs down Industrial Way. I stay at home, and staple my thumb putting together zines for the Animal Liberation Front. Chelsea rubs that red paste made of whale fat, crushed bug carmine, and petrochemicals onto the cleft lips and spitty teeth ( Read more... )

for anyone who wants to put the time in and champ it - i know reading these things on livejournal is miserable, but i always appreciate your comments. so ( Read more... )

i post this for the small but noble Liliane, and also to inform you all of what a big softie baby i am inside, apparently.

Coat-Button MoonHigh up above us ( Read more... )

did i mention i made a portfolio site?

this is especially cute, because it also contains the kids poems i worked on late last year. go read 'coat button moon', which might be the sweetest babiest thing i ever write, ever. ever ever.

it is located at never.illogic.netprose pieces, poetry, and uh...kids poems. i'm 50 pages into a YA novel, which ( Read more... )

DEAR OTTAWA ( Read more... )