This is their job, they circle like vultures, neccessarily hungry, forgivably obedient. What eats vultures when they die? Other vultures, I suppose. Swallow your pink mouth, you are ugly.

I glued you together paper person. I set your pupils to the light, and blurred the hem of your skirt. My eyes remain green. A fist of dry grass for your hair. Chipped away your nails to a point on your four fingers and set you in the Colorado sun to dry. I wanted three days to end and never end, so I created you in answer. Until I either die ( Read more... )

That is that, and it's all we have...if we had it at all, she thinks.
"People all around the world, trying to take you here, right here," he says. It consoles; perhaps an illusion.
This is a day in the life of modern americal geishas; powder and paint and sweeps of hair, landlording the smiles of others, chained to earth, and all her thoughts.~aE

i am so proud of you. I can not begin to explain all the ways i was awed by you tonite. I always knew you were incredible. But for the first time in our life together, I feel that you are beginning to know that too. "I hope you are seeing in you now the things I swore I saw myself" (Dashboard, sort of). We are too old to feel insecure. We have ( Read more... )

I have closure. What does that even mean. As a concept. Nothing that requires "closure" is ever physically, tangibly, opened. Likewise, can not be shut. Moving on I guess. Forgetting? Nah. That's another thing. Memories are imprinted for good. "Forget about it" you say. "Impossible ( Read more... )

i really need to do this. thanks chris for the inspiration.

1. Vonnegut, Dillard, Steinbeck
2. M83, Handsome Family, Interpol
3. Vincent, Chris, Terry, Lauren and Diedre
4. really good food
5. roadtrips, and travelling in general
6. new journals and writing poems that i am pleased with

I hope everyone's weekend was fun. Mine was splendid. I had that play (where I was Baba Yaga) and it went good. I didn't steal the show, but I didn't mess up any lines, either ( Read more... )

I nailed that job interview...and got offered a job!! In fukcing HAWAII!!!! I could be there one year from now ( Read more... )

this is how I will always remember you,
laughing into me with our creepy old-man kiss,
your reasons are simple and I am left to fumble,
these provisions are so hard
to come by
but so fucking worth it.

Now, we've all complained about being poor. As have I, in the past ( Read more... )