Thursday, April 24, 2008

Every Girl I've Ever Loved

Everygirl I've Everloved
When I was a boy I used to imagine a white expanse where every girl I'd ever loved or dreamed of loving would be. Naked. All of them. In a long line. The ones I'd felt more intensely drawn to would somehow have been pre-sorted towards the front of the line, and those who had been mere passing fancies, (soap opera crushes, girls in magazines) would be further down.

One day I realized that there would be too many of them.
There would be no way I could get them all into one room.
There simply wouldn't be rooms big enough.


And plus, some of them had surely changed since I'd fallen in love with them. Half of them I surely wouldn't even remember! Beautiful faces that I'd hardly recognize. The young girls could now be old and chain-smoking. Maybe even some corpses! Starlets of the Silver Screen, long gone, now dug and propped up decaying. I wouldn't want to see that.
So I dropped the idea.

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Hidden Talents

today is a day for revealing hidden talents.
i have a talent for shouting out the names of commonplace animals.


product placement
i stopped into the corner grocery for my meal of sobe and fritos
and the iranian grocer was playing the violin!
the violin, people!


the girl from the periodicals archive
in the library

was out running in the nice weather yesterday

Chick is fuckin’ HALT.

who knew?

like nothing else like it

my lunch lady in school

could make brownies from a can

canned brownies! in a light syrup! every third wednesday!


divestitures
sometimes it seems like plants in the city are just low-rent tenants finding place to live where they can, like unwanted relatives in the spare room, but then you remember that under the city is still the planet earth. next door is a curt little banker who I never see doing anything more than stepping in or out of his mercedes, and today he was digging a hole! in the ground! dirt, people! revealed! a gardener in our midst and I had no idea!


hidden talents


its game day, yay
everybody out there can play, (and i know yer out there playa...
hidden... wid talent... )
the game is to
reveal your hidden talent in 6 words or less
or shout out a commonplace animal name

I'll go first:

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Doug in, Again

From the milk-dotted window we watch the alluvion rain splattering the street outside. A calm and selfless pedestrian, soaked to the bone, holds his groceries in one arm, and fumbles for his keys with the other. The place was hardly snug, but at least its warm. Doug's apartment.

"Balance," Doug says reaching for his coffee cup, "I'm consumed by it. And once I find some and start to purview a new kind of manumitted joy, she goes and rips it all away." The neighbor drops his keys and reaches down to retrieve them, dropping his groceries too.

"You don't become somebody else when you fall in love," I say, dreaming of a vodka tonic and an ecdysiast I once knew named Libby...

"She just... got... everything right..." he says with more than a slight pang of loss, like a man reaching for something delicate in the dark and grasping a hot iron instead.

My buddy Doug is a scientist. One of my 'adult' friends. No matter how old I get I feel like I still calibrate a large portion of my interactions in my head as if I am still a boy and everyone around me is grumpy old and has-been. I guess we all feel like that sometimes. But Doug has always been an adult. I met him at a function at the University. We started talking and found we could respond to each other's uncompleted thoughts with almost a kind of foreknowledge. Sometimes disparate elements form bonds, as Doug would say. Our conversations were places where things really get said. I thought it would be cool to have an overly educated smart person around. The guy has integrated science into almost every facet of his life, but Doug started turning to me more and more as a sounding board for his love life, and so now we don't hang as often. I can only take so much of lovelorn rationality. He tends to make points quickly and then rehash them in intrinsicly detailed diatribes that sound painfully like mathematical proofs, and if you don't pay attention it all starts to slide by like the background loop of a Saturday-morning cartoon.

A plantpot in the window catches my eye. It looks like it was smashed against the floor and then meticulously glued back together.

"It was hers," he says with a singular solitude. The universe is full of bodies pulled by quiet inertias. I knew I needed to stop in today concomitant with my reception of a lengthy letter from him a month or so ago informing me his fiancé had left him, and he was free-wheeling towards a dégringolade.

"Hey, I'm sorry. All this talking about me… what's new with you?"

"A boy I knew back home committed suicide yesterday," I say and immediately regret saying. "But I'm trying not to think about the long winters anymore. Just stepping back into my life."

"So's'it nice to be back?" he asks, thankfully not listening to a word I say. Absentmindedly dabbling a cloth at coffee stains.

"Yeah man. I love the city lights. I just wish all my nights could be days..."

"See, I'm partial to staying in. That was part of what I loved about her," he cuts in, and off he goes: "On, like, all temporal levels she could meet me on both micro and macrophytic levels." I imagine Doug talking like this to some poor girl filled more by curiosity and pity than anything resembling love or desire. I can see her gentle heart congealing quiescent and slowly freezing over. "…When I wanted to stay in and discuss the programmatic queries of group, she'd be all for it. Open up a bottle of wine and listen. Ask really good questions, you know, like I fascinated her more than the possibility of anyone else in the world!"

His hand shakes. Life's little reverberations, I think. Now that she has left him he's fallen apart, but was he ever really together?

"Failure is the most fundamental feature of biological, social and economic systems" he says, unsteadily spilling more coffee, this time on his hand, and swearing under his breath. I find it unnerving that this man is in charge of unstable and potentially unpredictable isotopic chain reactions on a day-to-day basis. He used to be a grad student. Now he oversees them. The world is a fluke of tiny cataclysmic physics.

"Sometimes she could be like ten girls at once. But my hypothesis is that all girls are like this. Unbidden complex theoreticals. My mother had enthusiasms that changed so often my Dad once asked her what her favorite book was, and in the time it took him to read it she'd decided that she hated books and refused to talk about any of them ever again."

"What did she do?"

"She was a conceptual artist, I only met her once. My father raised me. He worked as a chemist."

Doug, the result of a chemical reaction gone haywire. The rain outside slows and feeling that the recourse of despair lies in either comedy or alcohol, I suggest we go get a drink.

"Let's do the town!"

A door opens down a nearby street and we are greeted by the smell of sadness and futility. In all my agony I have smelled this familiar foul reak. Death, and last night's overflowed taps hastily wiped away on the surface but still stinking everywhere else. Ruined forms huddled against brass rails, falling into foul alleys and steamy darkness. The city within every city, the dark heart of the sun.

It didn't take long to talk Doug into coming out. Later, after a few shots he's opened up to the other guys around and I realize how disarmingly charming and forthright he is for such an otherwise modest guy with a really shaky view of reality.

"She said I changed after we moved in together," he confided loud enough for everyone to hear him. "Like I was some monster all of a sudden. I never would have proposed if I'd known that was how it was going to turn out."

"Yeah man. Marriage is terminal," someone offered. Once, a long time ago, Doug told me that we didn't need to invent computers that could think (A.I.) we just needed to create a program that could evolve. Intelligence wasn't a neccesity for survival, he argued, it was capacity to meet change.

The rain starts up again outside a dim window filled with the buzzing neon signs and I want to hide from all the draughts of life in a shadowy corner and die. Sometimes living is only waiting for dying.

Whenever the clouds tremble like this I am back in Minnesota and its raining. She is there angrily waiting as I stand obstinatly beside the house in a dim spring downpour. My T-shirt clinging to my scrawny frame as I shiver and reek to high heaven of cigar darmp smoke and spilt Wisconsin beer.

Until the rain becomes me

and I become the rain.

"It's who we are in moments of crisis that define who we are." Doug says. "Like how we can tell what gases are in a star but the colour of the reaction."

"The fires we burn!" cries the besotted inebriant.

"Yeah," I say, "Under the necessities of pressure, we all boil down to what we truly consist of. Who we truly are."

"When she was walking out,

I didn't do anything to stop her.

I just sat there

and didn't move.

I just watched her go."

My buddy Doug starts to cry and I scooch in closer and pat him on the shoulder.

"Just breathe," I say as he sobs and sobs in the secret language of remorse and regret. "It'll be alright. It will. Just breathe." And after a minute or so he feels better, or seems to, and straightens up and wipes the tears from his eyes.

Looking suddenly sober he turns to me and breathes deeply. "We are all indebted to oxygen" he says, and I laugh at the scientist. Sometimes its the most serious people who can tell the best jokes.

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Demon

I was listening to Opera and he said "what the fuck is this?". Embarrased, turning the music down, he had already started fiddling with the broken backseat window, at the whim of his own insatiable intrinsic motives. The motives that would drive him to his end.

He lived next door to me for years.
My first solid memory of him was clapping erasers outside the school at the end of the day, in the second grade. He dashed out, Ms. Wilson comes screaming after him but he's gone, unfolding on a horizon I hadn't even seen before, and gone.

"Do you want me to go after him?" I volunteered. She just put her hand on my head.

Once we gave him a ride to school at 7:30 in the morning and he reaked of pot. Didn't say anything. Mom coaxed him into coming to church a few times that year. She said later they had talked about redemption. "Do you think I could ever be forgiven for what I've done?" he'd asked her on our doorfront, come over to ask to hunt on our land.

His class had a lot of bad eggs. 3 years my senior. Someone looked up and noticed. Changes were made. Too late. I owe a lot to the changes instituted by the provenance of that class. My first rejection, for instance.

His sister got pregnant I think and fell off the face of the visible earth.
3 other guys from that class have offed in the last year.
Unseen horizens.

Went to a girl's party after graduation and he was there, hanging with her older brother who was on parole and drinking beers in the afternoon. He half smiled at me, probably nervous to be recognized. We didn't say anything. Different worlds only Collide if they have to. Looked pale and thin, malnourished almost, patchy facial hair. A kind of just keeping above the surface desperation. The girls were ugly and you could tell they had been crying. The boys drove off to the woods to go shoot things. That was the last I saw of him.


His dad said he was doing good. His dad who had tried so hard. Worked years full of honest days work raising two kids single. Found a good woman and remarried. Said his boy had a girlfriend, a steady job. Was doing well. Had found an apartment. Said he was doing good.

Guess now he's done running.

Monday, April 21, 2008

Names on the Wind

Who are you Mr. Masked Man?
I am my will.
I am gone in plain sight.
I am In-Your-Face-Hamilton.
I am the confluence of brooding and fucked
the
midnight willpower switch-- good luck!
I am two lovers in a craven light pressed dockside and liplocked right outside a cold box warehouse at night. That warehouse is everything unsaid. That kiss is potential.
I am potentially anything you like.


Yes, but who are you Mr. The Masked Man?
Must I tell you again? I am languages you don't understand.
I am Smith-Thompson-Pauciloquent.

I am the blood in the shower you plunged away. We all wash away, such fragile creatures.

I am diabolic mysteries.
I am a crowfooted schoolteacher face ravaged by the disappointments of life.

I am quintessential folk songs rehashed.
Oh
Alamo, you are how I feel!
I feel the solitarily neurotic delusion of wanting to both live and die. Pray I'll do both before this night is up.


Who?!?
Thank you, thank you, I can be found in caves and subways.
I am
6am time floating on the wind of sleeping bitchy women.

I am blank photographs. Pictures of the water bill, notice.
No, I am overwhelmed
the city where I sleep. What's left, and what's right.
I am her emollient gift, wasted.
I am hope, but I won't say it. Walking out of your door like you walked out of mine.


Who? Who?
No, Please! Don't make me tell you who I am. I am slippery peak progress paradox.

I am hurtful on purpose.
I am helpful. I picked up the aspirations that fell out of her pocket when she didn't have the composition to collect.

I am a collect call.
The anemophilous bits of the charged conversation, "Why don't you want to have kids?" floating all over every city in America, echoing off gridiron walls.
Night clouds in half light.
I am the volumetric emptiness within a freckled breast. That callous minimalistic solitude for which there exists no field manual. Termagant unease together as we sniff in vaporous silence. What's that smell?
I am what you think I think of you.


Masked Man! Mr. Masked Man! Who are you, who are you?
Are you really making me spell this out for you?
I am nothing but a man!
I am thrashing and growling about the bed. Because I am frightened.
I am cognizant that something is seeping into all our conversations like some volatile gas we are delicately trying not to ignite.
I am a match.
I am a crutch. God is a crutch. I may be God
or weeping Dream Eraser, wiping dark ledgers blank for a chaser.
I am my strange phases. You have nothing to fear.

I am inexpugnable.

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Frequent New Days

 They say necessity is the mother of all invention.
Don't know who the father is.
Probably remorse.

-Red Green

Cat food
Rice Crispies
high noon sun
3 Bodhisattvas
Male Enhancement
Goldfish

Mornings are suicide.  Who am I going to be today?  Dewey eyes leaching sleep crusts and night sweats, the slowly-revolving world above her dreamy bed.  Fluffy voluminous sheets piled high to protect her from the single truth that is oh so cold.  Her eyes painted grizzly brown, everything evocative of heartbreak and nothing so heartbreaking as the strangest places I see you.  Sonic little coffeehouses and magazine articles on clinical psychology.  The world broadcasts unexpected whines and power lines.  Is this the best we can do?  Hint at it incessantly like so many poems never saying anything deep?

"Masked Man is that you?  What time are you going off to work?  Can you pick up a few things on your way back?"

Paisley
Hawthorn
Sage Chicken
The Yogi Speaks on the Patriot Act
Backseat Toyota Infidelities
Milk


"
Fear not my words," I tell her through brushed teeth.  Don't take me too seriously.   The illusions of youth mask only the proud.  I am a misfit among wannabes.  Now is the time for change.  Today.  The dawn.  Ok tomorrow.  Let's loosen our grip on reality, "Forget how much I care," I hear myself say as if I believe I don't belong here.  Your voice lies crestfallen on the line and I think of infinity and my own weaknesses.  Falling in love doesn't need to have a reason.  Manufacturing emotion to spin into her web.  Some days I can see beyond my own narrow perspective.  And some days I drop every egg I'm juggling, years and years of eggs, when you call.

"
Don't forget to get some eggs."

Brown Eggs
Fish Filet
Pelican dreams
Prudence
Grape nuts

At the end of the day my pen drips incandescent like the moon out your window.  Some words, like ideas, are audible only to babies.  I was bitter for a long time and now I'm trying not to be.  Wouldn't be too hard to sail into the mystic and savor each dying breath, the frightened fuck-up that I am.  Shudder drown, one fears the end and then the pain disappears and I rise gracefully to catch the next wave.  I laugh.  It's as easy as that.  When nothing is real, somehow it all is. More so.

"But what about me?"

Baby Powder
Organic Cheddar
Everything Good that's never been said
Train Tickets
Magic Alex Quotes

Your problem is that my God doesn't drink enough.  My problem is that He does.  I've seen more blurry days here.  Flowers have to grow through the corpses of their dead ancestors just to get some sun.  I love that story, your hair and flowers.  Be sure to wear some flour in your hair.  Why stay away from sugar?  Bake me a cake.  "What? You can't cook?"  I find the right flaws to prescribe to everyone.  Or the wrong flaws.  All the same, it's a game sport.

Popcorn
Whiskey
3 Plaintive weeks in a row


"
Know any good pitches, thief?"  You tell me "never" and I cough in dry explosions cackle-crack of relief.  "Have a nice day at work," I say as I move your keys just slightly out of sight to the right. I'm a jerk.  But I'm your jerk.  And sometimes I feel this makes you insurmountably low.  Well cheer up.  Don't think about it. There's no good way to fall.  And when you get sad as the universe just lay motionless in bed  and remember that each new day is held up by all those dead empty others propelled off spinning somewhere behind us endlessly around and around like a bubble in the park so round and perfect and pop on your finger gone if you're compelled to get too close.

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Monday, April 14, 2008

Remember when YOU were young and gullible, doubting yourself and visiting Battle Creek Michigan

Remember when you were 19 and you wake up smelling like sex and cigarettes and can't remember why... or you do remember but it's fuzzy and you can't deal with what remembering may mean, and you take a piss and there's a butt in the bowl, and take a shower and brush your teeth to rid yourself of it all. You don't understand it, and the shower only makes things worse for some reason because
its just you
naked
sounds amplified and distorted by the pressured water
the past microscoping like a jet spray
and you knock over the soap bottle, and flash back to knocking over a beer bottle, cigarette dangling on a lower lip, her tits bouncing as you... into the wall...


No? Okay tear yourself from these memory, its all too painfull... Why did you ever sleep with her? How did you get into this situation? Is there any way out now?

Remember thinking about semantics of situations like

"I just got off and she let me and I didn't give her anything, does that mean its gunna be weird now?"

SuppleSextusCinString: anthropology doesn't just look at the past, it looks at the present, and speculates about the future....
SuppleSextusCinString: and the future, well, the future is a very big place man, a very big place....
SuppleSextusCinString: it is even bigger than the past, I mean, if you want to look at it like that
DMsqdMn17:
I think they both extend infinitly in both directions

What do we have to look forward to? The future? Empty as the sky, that yearning arrow to the sun. I yearn for the perception of all phenomena. Collect every stimuli into the shelter of my mind and regurgitate it into something tangible and helpful. To say that I am here and...
and...
Aw fuck I can't think about that now. I think I have some sort of rash.


Remember? Shit.
Like it was yesterday.

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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Blog 368- On Drowning Tigers

Even if I came over right now and knocked down your door and ripped off your clothes and did you right there on the floor until you bled and I'd finished I'd roll over sweaty and still miserable. Groaning. She speaks and the wind roared across a rant of graves. She sleeps like an infant, burning and freezing and shreiking and she doesn't even know any of it.

She sleeps when she speaks to me now.
She speaks in my head.
Sometimes

I walk through your old turf awash in the past. My how you have moved on, climbed out, always teetering on the verge of some torrential meltdown that you'd rain down on me. You moved fast, like a heavy summer cloud and I think back. You were always silver-paced, a regular Diana the huntress, never really wanting in, but pleased to toy with the invitations.
No clocks on any walls I see. My shoes are an anathema metronome. Tapping the little shiver of the poor here close to the wood and liquid fire. Oily walls dripping with acetylenic paranoia. I rub my eyes. This is a bar. These are my thoughts. Dredging them out like crystalline scimitars in a swampy sludge. Every time I find one it cuts me.

Shoot.
Shot.
She

rings against my ear asking where I'm going.
"
I'll flock to the darkest place.
"
"Will you at least try to keep warm?"
"
No, it's as cold as they get. "

How close can you really get to a person? So close they live in you and you cease to exist? A puppet loves their lover's hand up their ass. At least I can smile. People pass like gadflies and there exists in each of them a little unreachable soul and in that I find solace. How can I empathize with everyone and still go unnoticed... still not exist?
The wind off the great bay suppresses. As if all eternity were condensed against me, a tiny illuminate yellowed scrap on the ground, just trying to breathe. Sleepdriving. Drowsy feet. I've seen too much. I've felt too much. Now I lay me. Now I lay me. Now I lay me.

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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Retro Invite Only

Sorry Britney, there's somebody on the other line
Hit me baby, some other time, perhaps
-Alexander Graham Bell

The place felt like Brooklyn heights, someone said, but I disagreed having never been there, and decided to eavesdrop on someone else's conversation instead. This time the poet who I fear and despise. Mostly just fear. Tall, wide slanted green eyes, eating with her fingers and sucking both the meat out of the crabs and the jealous spite out of everyone nearby with her charm. They all hated her. The poser. The success story in a sea of Punk Scene Princesses who make up in mascara what they lack in social conformity.

He kisses her on her mouth
She says save it for the stage
Oblivion swirling in her cigarette smoke
the fools, the bastards, the women
fighting men as flames arise
such a juxtaposition, this life
with its invisible music, in visible blood
hearts lie all around
the mosh pit, dying.

I read on the wall. This is her party. Scrawling violent drip-ink splatter sketches on the minimalistic gallery surroundings and each with its own poem beneath. I've been invited because we once dated. Briefly. Not really. We made out. A couple times. So much of love is circumstance. She had asked me what the deal with the mask was.

"We all wear masks," I had said.

"Symbolically right, in the little white lie sense. But why are you actually wearing a mask?"

"Trying to get away from things, I guess. Trying to fit into the river of darkness. I just want everyone to be happy."
She took a strong swig of a weak drink and eyed me like I'd been standing by the door all night and just come into focus. I had. But that's how she had looked at me. And then her cell phone beeped and the ambient bar noises suffusing the air rose and howled like a train and I stepped out for a smoke in the solemn solitude of the cathedral black
city night sky. Half a million thoughts in my head. Which is more impenetrable, the directions of the unknown or the concourses of the human heart?

"Why are you here?" someone asks, ruining the remembrance of things past.

"I'm allowed." I say. I had again walked outside for a smoke. Life imitates flashback. Always, but tonight I'm afraid a look in her eyes would be devastating.

"I wasn't insinuating..."

"I'm card carrying," I inform her, "I have my poetic license. Wanna see?" I reach down to cup my crotch but she simply laughs plaintively and walks away into the luminous emptiness of the party. Me and my sepulchral party sense. Overhearing two women talking about their sons,

"The boys are getting so big... so much stronger. I hope they make it to the finals," and suddenly I have a vision of the world as a nuclear wasteland of both proud and slouching storefront mannequins all blank eyed and blindly going through the motions of their daily lives, not knowing that they're selling something (themselves) in the display cases of time.

"The problem with wearing a mask is that you want to be somebody else, and you fail to recognize that their problems may be worse than your own." A feminine voice like liquid steel; hot, wet, and burnt-egg sulphuric, "the kind of problems that leave you shaking long into the imperturbable nights."
It was
her. Come out to have a smoke with me. The girls within didn't seem to mind her absence. Easier to snarkily criticize her exhibition with her out of earshot.


I felt homesick and out of place. I felt a feverish heat venture out all over me in tiny little ringing waves.
She saw further into me than I was comfortable with, and I suspected that she could see further still, over yon mountain, compromising even my deepest darkestmost defenses, and I wanted out of the light. "Nice of you to come," she said, and kissed me.

I have kissed Brazillian girls, their tongues acting little forcible reacharound subterfuges.
I have kissed French girls, in tempestuous sweeps and whorls that are perquisite preludes to hotly anticipated nothings.
I have kissed Danish girls, and been carried away by by their intrinsic shifting surls and deep deadly twitters.
I have kissed Korean girls, light as a feather and softer than solace.
I have kissed Italian girls... sigh...
I have kissed South African girls, mutely mouthing endless words without meaning all the while...

...But her kisses were the epitome of elegantly crafted detachment. Her kisses left me parched and dry of free association. Her kisses you couldn't practice for; and it would split your heart to dream about them.

"You didn't call me back," she says.
"
Buy me a drink," I offer raggedly, pouring out the words like hiccups.

Gesture. Step. Smile. Together we glide back into the party. Everyone is looking at you. Everyone whispering scalding little critiques. You're with her, she looks immaculate and where did you come from? You look like a schlub. Speckled brown jacket. Horrible gray pants. Bad-mannered, not very witty. Say something witty!

"Tom Collins," I say. "Tom Collins is a dry drink. Billy Collins is a wet poet."

Lame. She doesn't laugh. She sits huskily, looking at me clear and pure, making me want to melt into the shadows.   "Still wearing the masks I see," she says, "what are you hiding from these days?"

"I like telling people I've read books that I haven't. Saying I went to better schools. You know..." The world is a big place. There should be room for all of us, both who we are, and who we wish we could be.

"I thought you didn't finish school..."

"Yeah, well..." I think back to one of my own poems:

I'm neck deep (in water)
"Is it love?" she asks
"Is this the Ocean?" I retort
I just can't tell anymore

"...I just can't tell anymore."

When one door closes, fuckin' reopen it!
- Fergie

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Thursday, April 03, 2008

Stavekick Hungerstall

You've stopped whispering
and are asleep. I go on listening

li-young lee

We lay on rumpled sheets
chests heaving,
I'm hungry, she's dreaming about work. I can't shut off my brain. I'm hungry. Everything I do makes me feel blue and dying. Dark thoughts crawl like ivy. Lately I feel like whatever song I'm listening to is narrating my life. My head feels like an indissoluble channel of feed static and I'm afraid the buzzing will wake her up. I go to the other room.


Vast white walls

frame my life. I do this a lot. It's called consideration. She does it too though. I can see her while we drive somewhere… in a maze of her own random thoughts, lost on a mental summit and trying not to project any of this activity onto me. I have my own quiet spells, and she respects that now. She would talk. But I encourage silence. At least until we cannot maintain it.


I encourage communication

also.
Just not in the middle of the night. How about a midnight snack? I'm hungry. Or, why worry about calorie intake when you can eat nothing and save yourself the trouble of adding it all up? I'm hungry. Not even thinking semi-clearly now. Thoughts just aren't coming to me right. Can't pick up the tempo. How about checking the internet?


Dood, everyone knos that Starbreath Foxsky journyed to teh astral plane in
1784 in an dirigible. Oh, and Emily and I hooked up today and it was superlative!


Dungeons, thieves, warriors, etcetera, etcetera


Haven't written in this journal since my mom died. Let me tell you about it…


I'm Narcissitic, I'm Pessimistic, Obsessive, Insecure, and I am so afraid of
intimacy that every one of my relationships is a journey of self-sabatoge

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Everyone is just recycling pain.
Everyone
fighting their own private wars in mini-epic struggles.
My sites are a reservoir of useless information. Log onto the IM and there's my old friend 'Slicey':


SliceOGringo:
seriously my new job is fantastic dude
DMsqdMn17: great
SliceOGringo: i get rewarded for being artistic!! oh and check this

SliceOGringo: Amanda got an agent! and a illustrating gig that pays like really well

DmsqdMn17: yay

SliceOGringo: we're thinking of moving into a bigger condo
SliceOGringo: your up late… how are things in your neck of the woods

DmsqdMn17: Awesome! Just Awesome!
DmsqdMn17: With Awesomecake and Extra Fucking Awesome Sauce!


Close the stupid computer. Close

that stupid dark personal trainwreck I call my life for a while and
try to straighten things out. Laying up thinking is a virtue. Why worry about the big picture, I figure. There is loads of time for us to grow old and die, until then I'm choosing sadness. Because life is simple and unbearable. For a while. I'm hungry and I don't know what to eat. I choose to breathe. I'm choosing to move away part by part. An hour a part. Empty hours filled with silent prayer to nothing. Artists as a whole are pretty unhappy people. Headed for an ominous perceptual shutdown. Toss and turning, living in black and white and screaming yellow.


So angry at everything,
and also feeling mild

like everything on my horizon is being swallowed by a soot black hole and what's the point?
There's an old book I don't want, I can't afford, and I buy it anyway. Just to remember what the light is like? Maybe the path to freedom is uncertainty. Patience. Stoicism. Morning is coming. Morning has come. All

obstacles eventually yield.

Guess I’ll just be the best Masked Man I can be. I'm hungry.


Well all of that rambling
brings me to this: Last night she made a suggestion.


So sunrise
shines out in a blaze of rhymes and I am blind

Walking to the maildrop at dawn to slip in an empty envelope

Addressed to myself: marked;

"Return to sender"

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