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hair poem
because this is a love poem ( Read more... ) -
Pro-Solitude
After a really rough week, things are mellowing out again. I honestly think that I'm just happier when I am by myself. Look - I know that's hard (if not impossible) to believe, but when I'm alone - it's easier for me to think, to smile, to be. All that good stuff gets distorted when I'm surrounded by people ( Read more... ) -
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"You don't solve problems in writing. They're still there. I've heard psychiatrists say - 'see, you've forgiven your father. there it is in your poem.'But I haven't forgiven my father. I just wrote that I did."
- Anne Sexton -
Blood Beat Rock
There's a cut on my lip
and through it
words fall out
tasting like blood
red mercury drip drop drip drop
we rock it with the hip hop hip hop
i hear - there's a place in hell
where suicide trees
only know how to speak
when they bleed
through broken branches
and bloody leaves
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"Live or die but don't poison everything."
- Saul Bellow -
We Touched
His words were not sturdy enough
to stand on or
walk across.
He spoke no bridges to me
so we touched
becoming doors
bodies opened like hungry mouths
waiting with red tongues.
We touched
and this is no apology. -
(insert goat pun here)
okay.. so, in case you didn't see it on CNN, a fraternity at my school has gotten in trouble for FUCKING GOATS. WTF?! I think it's so funny that these homophobic frat boys look at me like i'm crazy for being gay and then go fuck goats ( Read more... ) -
Time, anyone?
Well, it ain't no secret - this week has been absolute madness. There were at least three instances where i found myself wishing for a time-space continuum so I'd have a shot in hell of getting everything done. My wish as yet has not been granted. Alas ( Read more... ) -
The Best Quotation Yet
From a letter of Schopenhauer to Goethe, November 1815 ( Read more... )
