Month: March 2012
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Sway
Why does everything to music sound so much better? Why does it have so much more meaning? I was listening to a Weepies favorite of mine “Can’t Go Back Now” and all of it together – the music, voices, words do so much more than alone. Isolated it seems so simple, without form or guts.…
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The Secret World of Alex Mack
Last night I bought new poet boots for $8! That means they are serious poet boots because poets are poor mostly and the fact that I can get something so wonderful on my feet for $8 is a miracle! They aren’t even my size, but fit which makes them more of a miracle. Here’s a…
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They made it to a blog!
My beautiful sister (I can call her that since she practically is) and her now husband had their wedding featured on the “Love Well Styled” blog. Not that that should mean anything to you, I’ve never heard of the blog, but THEY ARE ON IT! And I’m in the little yellow dress. Check it out…
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Things I want today:
1. A keyboard @. A Banjo 3. Eileen Myles’ new collection: Snowflake/Different Streets $. The hottest kiss from someone I love – with tongue with guts 5. Swan Dives ^. Money for a new tattoo 7. An idea for a new tattoo *. A new job 9. A bloody nose – it’s been a while…
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Past noon on a whatday
When I woke up this morning I wasn’t sure what day it was. My hope was that it was Wednesday because Thursday I’m getting a massage, but I still need to shave my legs which might be a two-day affair – one never knows. That’s why I didn’t wish it was Thursday. I’m sorry if…
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Fruit Salad
This is my mom’s new raft – an electric orange tangerine I hope to see bobbing down a river soon. My step-dad calls this photo “Fruit Salad.” Normally, if she were “en-route” she’d be wearing a mango-colored wet suit – only in the big waves, the little waves are relaxing and don’t require much work…
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There is comfort in a shot glass
I’ve been dealing with a very impersonal end to what was a meaningful friendship and love. The impact of this loss has hit me head on – my brain and heart have been painfully raw. I look in the mirror and a red-eyed ghoul glares back at me. I can feel my hunger fading, the…
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Poets are everything
mismatched socks on clotheslines, gold flakes around the rim of a shot glass, tattoos, car fluids, cotton dust orbiting like satellites. We are failures and mechanics. We are immense sneezes and skin biters. We are compressed pieces of cork crumbling particle by particle in life’s hands. We are crock pots. We are complicated. We pick…
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"The Secret About," Anonymous from theRumpus.net
“Like everyone in this world and out of it, I have a relentlessly complicated relationship with sex. Sex is my back-rubbing, silky-voiced soulmate who sometimes—more frequently than once a full moon—goes werewolf on my physical, psychological, and emotional makeup. Sex is my self-love and my self-hate. Sex is my pride and my shame.” “The Secret…