Tweeton some level we want to be guilty to have someone chasing us telling us over and over that all our fuckups mattered that in the vast ledger of life, a thick black book there was a notation made beside our names “this one right here; he was trouble.”
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Posted 06 May 2011
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TweetStanding in an underground railway station built alongside a highway in the middle of summer slippy-hot that falls on you like a damp blanket your mother had been heating in the over on the lowest setting to lie over you when you were sick the cars themselves are no better the air conditioning roaring helplessly [...]
TweetPacific Blue and Wild Blue Yonder Embrace the hearts of sea and sky. Seduction and passion Belong to Sapphire and Lapis Lazuli. Indigo possesses the soul of jazz, Before it becomes the darkest hue of Midnight Blue. Blue Bell and Periwinkle Are for innocence and flowers, Turquoise and Royal Are brave and empowered. Steel, Cadet [...]
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Posted 04 June 2010
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TweetWalking in the spring rain without an umbrella should be avoided by budding poets. It leads to writing little bad poems about walking in the May rain without an umbrella. I write you these lines as a note of warning. I saw that glint in you eye when it began to drizzle and I was [...]
TweetSitting in a corner of the tiny dance studio, I watch her every move, not wanting to miss a thing. I commit it all to memory, not knowing how long I have to view. Taking photos in my mind, I file it all away. Fingers gently resting on the barre, Not too tight, barely [...]
Tweet1. Half-price Easter chocolate tastes strangely of dusty bread and a hint of sour grapes. 2. and to tell the truth, I love you. and to tell the truth, when I say that I’m lying. 3. When you came on the television chopped off at the waist and speaking in tongues, I wanted to turn [...]
TweetHow far can one small warrior go? How much can he endure? How hot must be the fires To make the gold most pure? How high can the biker climb Upon the mountain’s height? How many rounds can the boxer go, Or the weaker fighter fight? How many times will each be downed, And choose [...]
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Posted 24 March 2010
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TweetI dreamed that I died. chalk boned carrion picked over the feast long gone gaping hollowed windows persistant half-opened mouths snarled a sufeit of emptiness it hovers the liquid melted sun an alchemy of rippled heat evaporation’s reflection once a bucolic scene now eclipses into stark barren godless stone burning glittering sand cactus stand on [...]
Tweet‘You’re like no one I’ve ever known,’ she says to me quite slow; ‘The way you think, the words you speak; your feelings ever flow. Seeing good in everyone, all mankind before your eyes, The purest light, the deepest dark- you, they mesmerize…
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Posted 17 February 2010
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Tweet Creativity tips and a pencil hits a pad, Originality spills and spews itself into existence across a blank page. Dream to shock the world with electric words, Capably strong in their conduction to restore flat lines to life. Coagulated pools that refuse to always bleed in unison, These clots increase the pressure to confide. [...]