Month: March 2012
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Sneeze, please
I’m breathing on half a nostril right now. What I originally thought was spring spawn flitting through the air ducts at work has manifested into a head cold. Either that or I’m allergic to douche bags – there’s been a lot of those around lately. It’s hard not to suck other people in when you…
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Poliça "Wandering Star"
This makes me want to be in a band. Too bad my doppelganger is much cooler than me.
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The Nemean Lion Ate My Wish Years Ago
Your first star, little love, was Venus. I didn’t have the heart to tell you your wish was lost orbiting our sun’s falling reign. They say stars die years before we ever know — yet their light remains. You wish anyway. Our neighbors’ windows look like black spines in dark matter. I feel your small…
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I'm new at this – don't watch
I got my favorite “letter in the mail” so far last night. From a poet named Matthew Zapruder. He talks about fear when writing and how it’s supposed to be there because when you write there’s the chance you might change who you are and there’s a chance you might change who your reader is…
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A wing trapped in dirt
I can’t stand that I’m here right now in front of my computer. I want to pout and hate myself and throw every awful thing I think about my work, life choices, creative abilities. My jacket smells mildewed, water-logged and dried. There are too many times I wash my clothes and leave them for days…
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The B-side is scratched to hell.
I’ve been brain numb for a while kicking meds out of my body, half in and half out. Move too fast and I fizz, hear car wrecks before they actually happen. Some part of me wants to pluck my eyelashes like a dog licks a raw spot. I know none of this makes sense to…
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Dragon Tattoo intro sequence
I don’t know how many of you have seen the movie – the book uh huh is better – but I have a crush on Rooney Mara now and it all happened in the first 2 minutes of the film. Seeing this on a computer screen doesn’t do it justice – it needs to be…
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Lily Kiyo – One Week Old
She’s not 10lbs yet, but she’s doing damn good for her first week in the world. Some women just know how to fight.