February 2012
22 posts
If i post another LOLcat the smart police will come and take away my ivory tower status
“If you’re not experimenting I don’t really know what you’re doing; you’re...”
– Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver)
(Is that last part strictly true?)
Lights Out
When the lights are out in the house
The phone is dead
Computer sleeping
Silence hums like cicadas
Hushed you talk in past tense
Stare with eyes three-quarter slits
Make hazy outlines of the flickering world
Look past the shoulders of people you once knew
To peer at candlelit strangers around you
You can whisper to me in this darkness
But I make no warranty I’m listening...
The light you see
Wind smells of cold metal and pre-dawn wetness
Light too bright on your naked 3am face
See three days growth
Smell the stale tang of cigarettes
Made more slender by sheer deprivation
But you won’t play off the circles drawn deep
Like a cartoon drunk
From where and how you forgot to sleep (you don’t know)
For the first time, you start to define yourself by what you have...
IF
If freckles were lovely, and day was night, And measles were nice and a lie warn’t a lie, Life would be delight,— But things couldn’t go right For in such a sad plight I wouldn’t be I.
If earth was heaven and now was hence,
And past was present, and false was true, There might be some sense But I’d be in suspense For on such a...
Forgotten Language
Once I spoke the language of the flowers,
Once I understood each word the caterpillar said,
Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings,
And shared a conversation with the housefly
in my bed.
Once I heard and answered all the questions
of the crickets,
And joined the crying of each falling dying
flake of snow,
Once I spoke the language of the flowers…...
I want to be different, just like everyone else i want to be like. I want to be part of the different crowd and assert my individuality with others who are different like me.
-john s. hall (king missile)
With my head cold, my eyes are so stuffed up they’re watery all morning. I’m going to start exclaiming “oooh, mee, ohh life!” and pretend i’m in a Garcia Lorca play… or Chekov… it doesn’t matter, you probably don’t read plays #noonecaresabouttheatre
January 2012
36 posts
Well, regardless of what you all (don’t) say I think I’m really, really funny…
If I’m saying mean things about you, it’s because I like you. Unless it’s because I don’t like you. But you’ll know the difference…probably…
K: “Yeah, if I’m running and people get in my way I give them the elbow.” J: “So, you’re kind of an asshole?” K: “It’s not my fault people can’t walk. J: “It’s not my fault you’re healthy. Use running paths, not sidewalks.” K: “Yeah,I’m not going to do that.” J: I’m putting you on...
Perhaps the thing to keep me sane is that my ex would get so much satisfaction if I went totally off the deep end.
Take heart people: there is a finite amount to which a morning can suck.
Except, possibly that’s not true.
Not if the universe is expanding.
Now I’m confused…
THE TRAGEDY OF THE LEAVES
I awakened to dryness and the ferns were dead,
the potted plants yellow as corn;
my woman was gone
and the empty bottles like bled corpses
surrounded me with their uselessness;
the sun was still good, though,
and my landlady’s note cracked in fine and
undemanding yellowness; what was needed now
was a good comedian, ancient style, a jester
with jokes upon...
i won’t be too scared i won’t be too tired
i’m becoming
hardwired
(Drinks Coffee)
I drink coffee, cup after cup, till my teeth are stained like old linen table cloths and the Canadian bacon tastes like citric acid, strangely contrasting like cookie crumbs ground into dropped ashes.
“What I wonder is if she meant to do it on purpose,” I said. I was crossing and uncrossing my legs. My knees couldn’t get comfortable.
She was perched on a stool, delicately balanced looking down...
i just put BBQ sauce on my antipasto. yeah. that was pretty good of me.
I neglect Tumblr like I neglect sleep
My tumblr account is like a contest to see who can have the most boring blog in history
say it and lose your power; don’t say it and lose your sanity; accept it and lose your ego #me
Hey all, big bird says tune in/log out for #SOPA on Wednesday 1/18/12…
