I have a lashing cruelty in me that I both abhor and rely on. It's an angel that protects me when I'm weak and a demon that cuts me when I'm strong. I try to let it go, but it's with me ( Read more... )

Ever since the accident, my car's been a little fucked up ( Read more... )

I'm giving out advice to people as if I knew anything about answers ( Read more... )

I turned 28 about fifteen minutes ago. It happened with little bravado, laying on the uncomfortable couch in the living room, the dog curled up in the crook of my legs, and my breath smelling of cheap beer. I was watching my roommate do his homework while I pawed at my smartphone and felt as though I should be texting people or responding to emails ( Read more... )

"The concept of the Ubermensch is an exemplary, transcendent figure. The Ubermensch is virtuous, loyal, ambitious and outspoken, disdainful of religious dogma and suspicious of received wisdom, intensely engaged in the hurly-burly of the real world. Above all he is passionate - a connoisseur of both "the highest joys" and "the deepest sorrows." He ( Read more... )

My girl knows me.
My girl doesn't care.
My girl's a bullet in the wind.
My girl stops traffic.
My girl exists.
My girl's weak for me.
My girl makes me weak.
My girl knows death.
My girl is a thunderstorm.
My girl is the sunlight.
My girl kills me.

I'm going to shoplift love or I'm going to get my hand chopped off when I get caught.

'I'm a 27 year old man finishing college. I'm surrounded by fucking children all day long, and I get this inflated sense of failure,' I said. 'I get to the end of the semester and I start to get tired. I rationalize everything by telling myself that I'm a failure at this point. Too old to be in school, too washed up to be pursuing any of this ( Read more... )

I finished the semester this afternoon on a high note. Now I'm sitting at the dining room table with my laptop, across from my roommate, watching 70s punk videos with an entire bottle of wine coursing through my veins ( Read more... )

My demons haven't been this loud in YEARS ( Read more... )

My father drove my brother and I to the airport so I could fly back across the country. I got on my plane and didn't look back ( Read more... )