When I turn my computer off at night, when the soft whirring of the internal fan gives way to a profound silence, I can't help but feel this overwhelming sense of loss. A loss of connection, both literal and metaphorical. I feel as though I am locked out of some sort of understanding; that all potential for grasping the reality of the human ( Read more... )

Contrary to popular belief, I am actually still alive! I successfully made it through finals week and I even submitted my final 2 poems to Alvin Lau earlier this afternoon. That means that right now, I am straight chillin :] So, in celebration of my overwhelming contentment, here's a really dope song that my friend, Alex put on the playlist he sent ( Read more... )

I don't need no father figure.
I got strong femurs, and I solve all of my problems by running.

They say nothing ever changes, if you keep running,
but that's a lie. Everything changes the second you stand still.

Life exists in motion.
This whole universe is a dancefloor of waltzing atoms.

I just got to keep running,
if I'm ever gonna be somebody.

M: "I want tree branches, Hardy. I want white birtch tree branches glued to the walls of this empty apartment. That's the first thing we've got to do before I move in here. I'll just paint around them once I really get settled in. It will be great. People won't know if they're outside or inside. It'll be a great big visual pun. Oh, I also think we ( Read more... )

True Story:

"Yo, you remember when that joint used to be a pizzeria with the oldschool Pac-Man machine? I used to get my ass whooped in that game everyday after school by the high school kids. That shit closed down when we were still in middle school and they turned it into that Chinese Restaurant, remember? I think it was some kind of bodega after ( Read more... )

My life is retarded in all the best and worst of ways.
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Don't you just love it when that happens?

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"Smells Like Content" - The Books

Balace, Repition
Composition, Mirrors

most of all the world is a place
where parts of wholes are described
whithin an overarching paradigm of clarity
and accuracy
the context of which makes possible
an underlying sense of the way it all fits together
despite our collective tendancy not to concieve of it as such

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1. Have you ever seen a baby bird die?
Once when I was a child. It fell out of the nest during recess. Two of the girls in my class started crying, but Peter stepped on it, and it stopped chirping. That was the year I invented shadow tag, I believe.

2. The number two.
Is something I have never experienced.

3. Have you ever been to the circus?
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