Hello reader. Whatever has brought you here, I hope you find something of use in this journal.

I've stopped keeping it, partially because blogging is kind of silly. But more importantly, because I wish to put some distance between myself and my struggles with the psychiatric machine in late '03 and the first half '04. Unfortunately, there's ( Read more... )

note: I backdated this entry, but that doesn't stop it from showing up on your "recent posts" lists, apparently!To: Ken Ray (DAJD director, King County ( Read more... )

DOSE OF REALITY

though its existence
some might doubt
there *is* a sugarcandy mount
whose saccharine peak
one soon discovers
is much more Equal
than the others

TURNAROUND TIMESweeping the dreamscape ( Read more... )

GREEN

from out of a keyhole
too long look-ed through
came an inkling that inkled
(as inklings oft do)

and I knew then I'd lost it
distracted because
of the has that had been
and the never that was

this reflection I share
with the man in my car
it's best not to know
how unhappy you are

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REGRET

I asked those questions
  long ago
of Heaven's lofts
  and realms below
she sadly smiled,
said "I don't know -
  but hell is where
    the quitters go."

FINISH LINE

I ran mechanical
as broken clockwork
each alarming minute
turned metal to ribbon
heartstrings snapped
like thin red tape
gears spinning so fast
I forgot to say

THE WATCHMAN

He wears a watch upon each wrist
his left is blue
the right is red
Blue is set five minutes back
And right is five ahead

So if you ask him for the time
Then just his sleeve
And he will know
If your steps sped slightly up
Or if your pace was slowed

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REVELATIONLost upon the causal sea ( Read more... )

DECAY

he's the squalor
from fractured halls
and he's hanging his plaque
on those velvety walls
bet your teeth he wants in
to your insidest track
and
he reeks
he reeks
he reeks of the havoc...
he's rot

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