Dan: I don’t want to hurt you. Alice: So why are you? Alice: No one will love you as much as I do. Why isn’t love enough? Alice: Why do you love her? Is it because she is successful? Dan: No, it’s because she doesn’t need me!
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Follow Me
I’ve been dragging around from the end of your coat for two weeks everywhere you go is swirling, everything you say has water under it You know I keep your fingerprints in a pink folder in the middle of my table you’re the tall kingdom I surround think I better follow you around
Read MoreCartography
“Louise, in this single bed, between these garish sheets, I will find a map as likely as any treasure hunt. I will explore you and mine you and you will redraw me according to your will. We shall cross one another’s boundaries and make ourselves one nation. Scoop me in your hands for I am…
Read MoreWhy I’m Afraid of Flying
I prefer anticipated endings. I like them because you can say “this is the last time that I will _________”. And then you pay more attention to each passing second, to each grain of sand that slips through your hand. And you treasure it more. The pain of something ending becomes bittersweet rather than a…
Read MoreBlissful Ignorance
Sometimes I wish I were a simpleton on a farm leading a simple life with little to worry about but next years’ harvest and little intellectual capacity beyond the ability to raise sheep and cattle and pigs and crops. This vivid but meaningless life around me swells into absurdity at times and at others diminishes…
Read MoreI neglect my blog, I neglect my journal…
… but I found a poem that was interesting. My mom sent it to me: Entitled: cordyon & alexis, redux and yet we think that song outlasts us all: wrecked devotion the wept face of desire, a kind of savage caring that reseeds itself and grows in clusters oh, you who are young, consider how…
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…I listened to a song by a girl that sent chills up my spine. And I thought, one year ago, so many things were different…
Read MoreGeneration Zero
Two things I’ve read recently have really piqued my interest. First, an article by the NY times: In sum (for those of you too lazy to read the article) the economic trends point towards the way of America’s economy being something of a lost cause. Entire industries are being outsourced, factory jobs are permanently disappearing…
Read MoreHello, goodbye.
Such a little word And it’s something you can’t say. Just turn away – you can’t see me anyway. Not if you tried.
Read MoreQuel Trahison!
What is it to be betrayed by a friend? I’ve felt this before. A delicate apathy, shattered by a glance.
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