So I've had something on my mind for a while now. Rather, I've been wracking my brain and I'm still stumped. The ever-nagging stigma: the commonality of trust issues. I simply don't understand why it is that I've heard, time after time after time, that one person or another has trouble getting close to others because they have trust issues ( Read more... )

Hey y'all, this an official announcement: the Ozark Poetry Slam will be returning to Fayetteville on January 9th at The White Rabbit on Wedington at 8 pm. Slams will be held every second Tuesday of the month afterward. Which means, oh yes, that the second slam will be the infamous EROTIC SLAM! Put your undies in the wash and get ready to rock ( Read more... )

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I keep saying I'm sorry. I know it's strange ( Read more... )

It’s been a lot longer than I’d like to admit. But then again, I don’t have to. Because this isn’t a confession. Though I’ve done so many wrongs and rights, all of them woven into my jean pockets and shoe treads, I hold no guilt. It took everything they had to get me where I am and I’m not sorry that I took it. I just hope that I can find a way to ( Read more... )

To a girl I can't stop caring for:

Remember the time I said everything I'd been meaning to say and you said everything you'd been meaning to say and we were just ok?

Me neither.

But I like to think about it.

found this browsing the net earlier. absolutely great home movie.

http://www.ronniek.org/donniedarko.mp4

Originally published at Perambulating Reason. You can comment here or there.

I went to see the UA production of The Underpants tonight. The most adorable girl in the world was the star and she looked just that: adorable. As if I weren’t captivated enough by her, tonight has my head in the stratosphere and my knees in the Nile. Her facial expressions ( Read more... )

Originally published at Perambulating Reason. You can comment here or there.

If you could read my mind you’d prone-gaze at spotlights and flashbulbs while we lie on crimson sheets of silk.

That’s right. Tonight my thoughts are with her. Marilyn Monroe. I close my eyes to hear her say “It’s a terrible thing to be lonesome. Especially in the middle of ( Read more... )

Pick five songs that begin with a certain letter and explain why you chose them. If you're interested, comment and thou shalt receive thy letter ( Read more... )

Originally published at Perambulating Reason. You can comment here or there.

I’m in a flat-spin,
wondering if the concrete will hurt
more or less than a wave.
Is it possible for the earth to swallow?
To drown?
Which would I prefer?

The high is out of gas
and I’m on a nose-dive,
headed straight for point of origin.
Some days I wish the roller-coaster ( Read more... )