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( twenty-four )

sitting at the corner of lake and hennepin listening to dylan's "desolation row" and patiently awaiting the express bus to campus, just three blocks from the site of the senseless murder of a twenty-five year old man just four days prior. a man approaches, followed by another man with an expensive video camera. he hands me a card, advises me to ( Read more... )

you walk into the bar and you buy yourself a drink. a few wary eyes meet your own but you pretend not to notice. tonight is a night for fun and you are determined to make everything transpire smoothly. but still more and more eyes fixate on you and you begin to sense that you are unwanted-- that the magnificent order of this small town bar is ( Read more... )

my dad called and awoke me at 11:30 this morning and told me to check my email. normally i'd be pissed at him for having disrupted my dream-time, but...


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for i had been treading great circles, spiraling a mobile of weeks suspended by a fish line delicately taped to your tattered ceiling; an encyclopedia of great questions, that one outlined in red ink-- your apogee of a sort-- with its nod to cliché yet still permitted by and through the lens of the almighty human struggle: "what is the meaning of ( Read more... )

oh, to truly hang by both threads!

so what of this disavowal of wordly concern with personal triumph ( Read more... )

perhaps even those i most admire lead a trite, mundane existence. their contentment is admirable but what will ever come of such rambling subjectiveness? in the broad scheme of things, how important is it that they prefer loaded over white light, white heat? if at first i found an example to live by, by close i found a motive for destruction. maybe ( Read more... )

something is happening -- or, rather, something has stopped happening. a stack of dialogue in confession form was left for dead over a week ago and is now no where to be found. perhaps i have torn through it on my own without resolve, as is usual, and will simply have to wait for the next round. but it felt so pivotal! suddenly i found the only ( Read more... )