it's okay to start over, isn't it?
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i'm writing a lot lately-- just not what i want, how i want. i always figured this would happen in college, but there are good things, too. i'm thinking more about plots and how characters develop and i think i'm getting better-- i think maybe, i understand a little bit more. it's just harder, now, because what if i can't make it come from that ( Read more... )

i was a cigarette and you smoked
me
like nothing on a fri-
day night. we were all together at once in some
thing, some thing combustible ( Read more... )

remember the time we were straddling those benches and eachother in the dark, under that streetlamp? it was the monday we called it official and inbetween the kisses on my neck and the fingers in my hair, you said, 'are you scared?' and i said, 'no.'

no,
but what i really meant was, 'baby, i'm not afraid of beginnings. only endings.'

here comes the axe, comes the arrow from the father
to the apple, to the heart,
or whichever
hits the hardest from that distance ( Read more... )

ahh. i need your help! i've written a story for my creative writing workshop, but i'm dreadfully unsure of it. so, because all of you are absolutely maddeningly brilliant, maybe you can help? there's a certain line i've left blank because i can't for the life of me think what the character would say. i need suggestions. also, general critique. does ( Read more... )

noteable:

yesterday, blossoms on my neck. that was so cute, sunshine. alrighty then.

today,
the wind is a wild animal: fierce
and desperate.

welcome to november.

oh, i've been going through old conversations. sometimes, they're so amusing.

( stella and i, discussing ariel )

ohmygod. someone. stole. my. car. my 1989 dented, paint-peeling ugly brown-red jeep cherokee! from in front of my fucking house! while i was probably reading genesis for history of ancient israel! i was reading the bible and someone stole my car! AND MY CDS. OH, GOD. ALL OF MY CDS. My mixed ones, the ones i actually bought, all of them! Woe to this ( Read more... )