March 2012
61 posts
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i realize
i need to
increase my
vocabulary,
so why not
give me something
worth saying
in new words?
February 2012
79 posts
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can i tell you how tired i am of needing him? i’ve never smoked a cigarette or drank more than one glass of coffee a day but i got hooked on this guy and now i cannot get his name out of my mind; his name it follows me on business cards and moving trucks and license plates and the random man who sits a table or two across from me sometimes at lunch. he’s never heard me say,...
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staring at a name on your instant message contacts...
currently.
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i hate conclusion paragraphs.
forgot my point? go back and read it!!
ugh, i’m tired and cranky.
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lets repave the roads with grass
and lie down and close our eyes
and if you get up i will not see
and i get up you will not know
for we’ll neither speak, and
we’ll neither sigh;
our loneliness
we’ll keep
secret.
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of course the night i’m supposed to spend writing a paper, i get that lightning strike of prose inspiration that evaded me in all of my previous free time.
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if i could
i would go back
to the rose bush
and bruises on elbows
counting marbles in the sand
leaving crumbs on the path
and praying the birds
don’t eat our way home
and hoping to grow
our own wings
build a nest
and never leave
the tallest trees
never grow old
never see our mothers worry
maybe disappear completely
or become a season that returns
once a year in breezes blown...
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hey i love you so much
all of the words i have
ever spoken are combining
in the back of my mind to
form the image of your face
like push pins pushed in
in just the right places so the
shadows and the outlines
fall in just the right spaces
in my mind you are all of
the language i need and
everything that leaves me
speechless.
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lately i haven’t been able to write longer fiction. i’ve been getting stories in snapshots. just bits and pieces of a nonexistent person’s life. if these people were off somewhere to be found then i would find them and follow them to their narrow-hallway homes and sit in their tight-but-comfortable kitchens and ask them to fill in the blanks for me. as it is, i am supposed to...
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like the waves against the rocks
your attentions sends me out
i’m all rise to turn all fall
i’m all up to come all down
you give me heartrush.
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he went around with a lead pipe
smashing in peoples’ headlights
just to offer them a ride home.
just another person in a lonely
world taking it into his own hands
to make himself significant.
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“You have ideas and you have insights, and if you think deeply enough, they will...”
– my anthropology of human rights professor
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we in ashes
fell down the
wishing well
to hell in
hand baskets
overturned so
posies spilled
like pills we’d
overdosed on
the fantasies—
our broken
crowns scatter
and melt in
the light.
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you are not my sunshine
and you do not make me happy
no matter what color the sky
or how unfavorable the weather
sometimes i wish i never knew you
but most of the time i just wish
you cared more.
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its those thoughts you think when you wake up in the middle of the night feeling like you forgot to breathe for an hour. you need the air but you wonder if its toxic. so many things seems to be toxic. you can’t use antiperspirant because the aluminum in it might give you breast cancer but if you use regular deodorant you’ll never find a husband for all the pit stains in your...
me: *leaves room and walks into kitchen*
dad: hey she came out of her hole
dad: it's like you live in a cave
dad: we haven't seen you in a while
dad: it's like you're a gnome or troll or something
dad: you only leave to stock up on food
dad: oh and there she goes
dad: walking right past me with her food
dad: see you in a few days
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this is one way you know you love someone:
you find someone just like them
and still feel all the difference
in every moment that you speak.
hey if you've begun following me in the past...
i would love to hear! welcome, by the way !! [:
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“Well here we are,” she said. “I’m angry. I have no milk left in the fridge— I am tired. I may be catching a cold and I have you here, knocking on my door for the first time in four months because you just happened to be in my part of town.” She shook her head. “Do you have any idea— any idea just what you put me through, these past four months? And now I am supposed to go out of...
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questions.
ever look up at a flickering star—
think somewhere in the dark
someone’s putting out
his last cigarette?
when alone by the shore have you
wished or believed one day
you may find a bottled letter
written for you?
what would you answer
if someone asked you what do you see
when you imagine
hallelujah?
stateless1972:
“I like drinking coffee alone and reading alone. I like riding the bus alone and walking home alone. It gives me time to think and set my mind free. I like eating alone and listening to music alone. But when I see a mother with her child, a girl with her lover, or a friend laughing with their best friend, I realize that even though I like being alone, I don’t fancy being lonely....
i think i may go away for a while...
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what do you do to feel alright
what do you do to feel alright
or are you new here?
do you know the hurt
so well you could recite it
by heart
or have you forgotten
everything
you are
good
everything
is fine
everything
was wonderful
every little thing
you’ve make up
in your mind
to keep out
the not alright.
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myth.
there was a woman who lived in a house all alone. she’d had a family. but her son went off to college. then her daughter. then her husband passed away one night. quietly; the neighbors heard no ambulance. and all that was left in the house was this woman, and dozens of empty picture frames on the walls and tables; and one picture of her, she held, the last time i saw her. it...
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a a a girl
said
she la la la loved
him
the wha wha wha one
who tore
language
apart.
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everyone kisses another one’s cheek
and everyone’s holding another in sleep
and i’m in my bedroom, before a blank screen
because love never fails to evade me.
i'm in a singing mood today.
maybe i’ll share later.
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please excuse me if i disappear
or do not recognize you when you’re passing
don’t take it personally dear
it’s just, for me, you’ve become quite exhausting;
i cannot always be all you require—
i cannot always bear your heavy load
i’m sorry to say that i must (for a while) retire,
i’m on energy saving mode.
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help!
i can’t get the “stuff i like” thing to work. anyone have any clues as to how to actually add it in? i used: http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_themes#likes
and i just added in the {block:} part… and it failed…
i don’t remember html that well…
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if my shyness were wrapping paper
would you tear right through or
peel away gently, fold up neatly
and set beside you to admire
after you have claimed the gift?
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a jump rope rhyme.
coca cola bottle cap
twist and turn and bend and snap
pick a partner spin her ‘round
don’t let go she’ll hit the ground
if you’re sure now lift her up
dip her down like pouring cups
of coca cola in your mouth
that is what this rhyme’s about.
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new followers!!!
oh my gosh so many of you tonight. if you’re here because of unka glen, then wow— i just feel so humbled !! when he messaged me to check his page, i was just so … happy— honored— wowed.
i hope you enjoy and are encouraged by my blog. ♥
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sometimes she got lost
when he held her—
when he held her
made her wonder
did he know what he was holding
holding only a body,
skin and hair
arms and legs
and chest and skull
with two brown marbles
through which light could pass for vision;
but did he see?
her emptiness,
did he feel it?
when he held her did he hold her
like a nearly-lost balloon?
like he knew she’d be...
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today is the taste
of grapefruit not ripe
yet as i look at my
reflection i’m unsurprised
to find a sour expression
on my face as these
and these and these
and these old feelings
fill the space between
morning and night,
you know it’s not right
the way we walk with
our eyes on our feet
as if nothing is but the
ground beneath them.
if nothing is but the
ground beneath us...
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the girl collapsed like burning buildings in my lap
and i became an earth of arms enfolding her
unnatural disaster.
once an ocean of words i found myself speechless,
whispering cries and praying for comfort from one
no one can touch.
i am rockabyeing my darling goodnight, singing
God grants sleep to those whom He loves,
so sleep daughter, sleep; what else
could i have sung?
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i have currently never abhorred anything more strongly than i abhor this article i am supposed to write a critique of.
please excuse me while my brain explodes.
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every day
a slim sleek stone
gray and round
set down
before me.
God knows where
these go,
but i’m going
where they lead.
and i hope
there i find
all my hopes
and my dreams.
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you were like
one hundred goldfish
of a love.
something simple,
sweet and fleeting.
well you were lovely
while you lasted
but you were never
quite for me.
i never needed
one hundred goldfish;
all i need
is one whale
of a love.