"Have trains ever collided?"


a young boy asks his mother.
I am watching them.
She pulls him towards the door of the coffeeshop by one hand. His other digs in his pocket for the answer.
It is an urgent question,
a question born immaculately
in curiousity,
a question that must be answered.
"Yes," she says, after a moment.
She is distracted the way ( Read more... )

Do old loves have ghosts
like ancestors? Do they haunt
like water, cold? And
will they ever fall to Earth,
like blackened leaves, melted snow?

I have a debilitating headache and a take-home exam (read: 4 page essay) i haven't started due in 13 hours. 
i'm on meds but they're not working.

what to do?

i really, really want to become the poet laureate. 

After several sessions, they said
my mind moved too quickly
for my mouth to catch up.

I chase my thoughts like raindrops
spiraling in breathless air,
scaling me, their eyes scared and shining.

I'd watch them fall across the window
from my car seat, stained like storms.
And as they'd race toward the edge,
I'd hedge bets.

But inside, I move slow as time,
as ( Read more... )

so i don't know how much any of you know about scrabble, but today i used all seven letters to spell "universe," and i managed to put it on a "triple word score"!

my dad, to his friends, about me and the boy:  they're cute together, aren't they? and they look alike too... like sister and sister.
or maybe brother and brother.

i got some new profile pictures from
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Why, exactly, did the weasel "pop" in "pop goes the weasel"?

Was he eaten? (Do monkeys eat weasels??)

Was he shot?

Did he spontaneously combust?

I am selling these save darfur t-shirts
in heather gray with dark green font.
size medium only, for $8. 
For $10, I'll sew the shirt to make smaller.  :)

The proceeds send small solar powered ovens to darfurian refugee camps, because when women leave the camps for firewood, to cook food, they are raped. 
If they have these ovens, they won't have to ( Read more... )