The classical Japanese poets have an aesthetic ideal that finds beauty in the ends and beginnings of things. What they understand is that beauty is transient (or transience beauty). You complain about the sun's heat one day and the next worry where it's away. So much of what's in front of you can slip away without forewarning. It will seem like ( Read more... )

i realize it will take days for anyone to notice

if i stay upstairs the dog and cat won't have to starve

LOVE WHY
DID YOU LEAVE

ME

woke up too early (as usual).

alone again.

i want only sleep.

"Listen," Anna said, her hands back on my shoulders. "Listen. I think I'm in love with you. I am. It's love. You know how I know? Last time I was at your house, I started petting your gym shoe when you were in the bathroom. Just like it was a dog. I swear ( Read more... )

I'm feeling destructive, and hopeless, and gone. I keep hoping the next person to ring the doorbell will ring it true and take me far far away. Time is always running out on me. Soon, she will return, and I will lose myself. Soon, these days of endless sunshine will end, and I shall go back to the first and last, to myself. No one will know me or ( Read more... )

I wish you would never be so familiar ( Read more... )

The floors of the House beside Summit on Main buckling under the weight of a crunked, sweaty populace out to party like there's no tomorrow, I am jumping in my heels wearing a purple sparkly dress. There is this Ann Arbor Hiphop Rock band, Belikos, which set the house on fire. Happy Birthday, please! Ahmina, Unmesh, Emma, Ginni& John were with me ( Read more... )

ay, walang arches yung paa.

i have heard this criticism from him before, spoken in a more biting tone. flat-footed, he said. madaling madapa. i was younger, my sense of self less-developed. back then i took this to heart and allowed it to form the picture of a girl who was not naturally inclined to athleticism and so, somehow, innately inadequate ( Read more... )

the game is called monopoly, not oligarchy

you can't make alliances with your opponent when there are only two of you left

you can die and pass on your property and wealth to your allies

you still have to pay rent to your allies

wheel and deal boardwalk to the other team, but make sure you know who you're riding home with