all my revelations happen when i can't sleep ( Read more... )

i got out of the shower and a stranger came to the door. he said that there was a gray cat lying mangled on the concrete 4 stories down from our windows. i ran out half undressed and somehow still hoping that what i thought was happening was not happening. but... after a traumatic two hours rushing to an emergency vet in a stranger's car and being ( Read more... )

it seems like these days there's been a positive correlation between late night visits and early morning tears ( Read more... )

gee, i think i've got myself figured out. as i usually do, drunk, at 4 in the morning. generally with the cat balled up under my armpit, or between my calf and thigh, purring away as everything about me comes to a boil ( Read more... )

i really, really miss my best friend. it's tearing me up. we haven't spoken in 3 weeks. not for any specific reason, other than he started dating someone fairly recently. i've decided to stake it out and wait for him to call me; at this point it seems like it will never happen. the last time we saw each other was on my birthday. he didn't seem to ( Read more... )

today i fell asleep in a bath of hair.
hair that once sprouted from my own
white wet chalk follicles.
i swallowed a coal
and followed my breath
and i did it with the grapefruit soap
thinking of youcolleen has been having psychic dreams lately. unlike most peoples' poor excuses for inadvertent psychic experiences, colleen's are unwarranted, ( Read more... )

we were both hitchhikers but you had your ears tuned to the roar ( Read more... )

facebook is good for a lot of things. i think my new favorite thing that facebook is good for is discovering which people i knew from florida have become jesus freaks and are living in mexico in order to preach the "good word" to those too unfortunate as to be familiar with it ( Read more... )

am i the only single person in this city anymore?! jesus h christ. jasmine dumps me mid-date to tell me about her new monogamous relationship (!) and mid-explanation syed walks in with a girl on his arm. WHAT? about an hour later i meet a lady who makes out on my face but then stops to tell me she has a girlfriend who is out of town and that i just ( Read more... )

so it goes.