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I've got a taste for blood
There's something about the memory of a scent. Sense memory - and it's an immediately visceral response. One that screams in the back of your mind as you're trying to do the most usual things, day by day. Board a train. Pick up the dry-cleaning. Brush your teeth. Wonder exactly where the time went - even though you predicted you would wonder this, ( Read more... ) -
I see right through you
Even though I know ( Read more... ) -
The semicolon.
Within letters to a lucid version of
the girl I left behind me who
was bad at being good
the happiest anarchist that ever was.
Legs criss-crossing like scissors chopping off
waves of traitorous crimson hair
kissing golden freckles from the sun.
And she smiles at you
through the gaps in her teeth
through her missing marbles
through and back between the opaque ( Read more... ) -
the next few days
OK. I still need to write about all of the amazing things that've been going on in life recently. That's partly true but then there's all the amazing things going on inside of ME and that's truly the point. The idea that all these amazing things are happening as a result of these changes I've made is pretty freaking awesome, but I'm not proud of ( Read more... ) -
notes on the social effects of science/tech
If a problem seems to have no solution, it is often not because there is no solution but rather because those investigating the problem cannot see the solution from their individualized perspective. Indeed, there is a need to see things in a new light. To be creative, to be able to develop new machines, new forms of technology, or new ways of ( Read more... ) -
on letting go
After a while you learn ( Read more... ) -
your american dream
A boat docked in a tiny Mexican village. An American tourist complimented the Mexican fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took him to catch them ( Read more... ) -
got no means for wanderlust
I was thinking about throat chakra suppression. I mean specifically, what I was told in the fall of 2007 when happening upon the Astrology Store with Mindy. At the time we were roommates. Something about how the hardening of energy around the heart chakra could be a direct result of pushing the energy down from the throat chakra (ie, not speaking ( Read more... ) -
when we feel the west inside
"Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous. If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or ( Read more... ) -
stars so bright to hide the dark
When there's nothing else to burn, you have to set yourself on fire ( Read more... )