This smooth white one's alright they say ( Read more... )

Scrolling through somethings
Soft melody in my ears
When my heads on the seatback
Phones so close to skull
It can't help but be soothing
It can't help but be clear
Drowning all the crying
Hand-wrenching kleenex
Frayed and lost away in your pockets
So much anxious release
Or the same for your nose
Either way turned out on the weekends
Pulled away with the lint ( Read more... )

Spent years putting smoke in my lungs
And my name, right-justified on the top-most line
Just to delay this paltry inevitability
The summation of my days
Spent navigating the human cycles I loathe to perpetuate

There are some folks
That are just so defeated
You can see it in their eyes
- And an ironic smile
"I grin, that you'd capture this vacant face"
Life, an exercise in framing its exasperation
Every conversation a shot at proving up its worth

Its an argument, that contemptuous visage

Well isn't this just a new lifetime ( Read more... )

Isn't it something when ( Read more... )

I posit that vanity is, practically, negative.  That is, separate from the idea that vanity is distasteful and "sinful".  Vanity keeps you in front of the mirror for hours of your life when you could at least be asserting your beauty publicly.  Certainly, to a point, this fault is useful...if only to align your looks/personality with the social ( Read more... )

"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. Tell them they are being attacked, and denouce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and endangering the country.
It works the same in every country."
- Herman Goering
Hitler's Reichsmarschall (at Nuremburg Trials)

*Nod to Ryan

Don't act like I'm the first ( Read more... )

Will you stay with me tonight
Give you a month or two
To give a little meaning to my life
And then I'm gone anyway
Sooner to vodka and soft red lights
Then a conversation half worth your time
If you didn't remember my birthday every year
Its likely I couldn't bear to call again