A Poem
I know that "walking away" is a cliched destructive term,
And it would be less than original to write that I died as her feet hit the pavement in the opposite direction.
But when those red curls bounced before my decomposing face for the last time,
Close enough to touch,
Smelling sweetly an armslength away,
I knew I was done for.
My life has been turbulent since that day.
Now sitting on the bank of an old sluggish river,
I can't help but think about the sound of her dollar flip-flops slapping, "Gone, gone, gone..." and crying through my next class.
It's all laid out before me at the moment.
The river constantly walks away from you, tripping over itself violently.
One ripple bouncing back mockingly into the ebb and flow of time.
There's no clapping of tastefully cheap footwear along this muddy shore,
But somehow it's all so clear in my mind.
The day she walked away.
So... I've been too afraid to do anything mildly artistic (let alone productive), but I'm tired of not trying. As for poetry, I'm always so unfocused. I tried write about one instant, and this is what came to me. (I really was at a river near my house, thus the mixed images. But, instead of crying through my next class, I actually went and got an honorable score on the American Mathematics Contest. *Snort* NERD! *Snort*) Not my best piece, but I hope I can remove the fear of suckage and get on with unlocking things locked within. So how is it?
With that out of the way, The Sleater-Kinney Concert was freaking AMAZING!!!!!!! I know no one cares, but here's the setlist:
Sleater-Kinney at the Crystal Ballroom on the 12th August 2006. Last show :-(
Setlist:
The Fox
The End of You
Wilderness
Jumpers
One Beat
Step Aside
The Hot Rock
Rollercoaster
All Hands On The Bad One
Night Light
What's Mine is Yours
Stay Where You Are
Modern Girl
Let's call It Love
Entertain
Sympathy
Words and Guitar
Encore:
Milkshake 'n' Honey
You're No Rock 'n' Roll Fun
Not What You Want
Steep Air
God is a Number
Oh!
Dig Me Out
Encore 2:
Good Things
Turn it On
One More Hour
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMOMGOMG!!!! I never say that, so it must have been good! Everyone should pickup either "One Beat" or "The Woods." SK Roxers my soxers off! (If only he weren't so shy... Sorry, Bad Joke.) Seriously, great musicalness. Unfortunately, they didn't have any good merch at the concert, or online. :-( Oh, and the specialness with it being their last show, Eddie Veddar of Pearl Jam came out and played an acoustic song, and then a Really cute Ukulele Song with Janet, the drummer of SK. Rad.
Moving on... still buying college stuff... um. Sad, happy, fat, sexy. The usual. I learned how to play Stirb Nicht Vor Mir by Rammstein. I've been really into them lately. Listening right now, in fact.. ;-) I think I wanted to talk about something else... but I can't think of it. Things are good. Bye peeps!
"...Ich weiß, dass irgendwann
Irgendwer mich liebt."
"...I know, that sometime
Somebody loves me."
Auf Wiederseh'n
And it would be less than original to write that I died as her feet hit the pavement in the opposite direction.
But when those red curls bounced before my decomposing face for the last time,
Close enough to touch,
Smelling sweetly an armslength away,
I knew I was done for.
My life has been turbulent since that day.
Now sitting on the bank of an old sluggish river,
I can't help but think about the sound of her dollar flip-flops slapping, "Gone, gone, gone..." and crying through my next class.
It's all laid out before me at the moment.
The river constantly walks away from you, tripping over itself violently.
One ripple bouncing back mockingly into the ebb and flow of time.
There's no clapping of tastefully cheap footwear along this muddy shore,
But somehow it's all so clear in my mind.
The day she walked away.
So... I've been too afraid to do anything mildly artistic (let alone productive), but I'm tired of not trying. As for poetry, I'm always so unfocused. I tried write about one instant, and this is what came to me. (I really was at a river near my house, thus the mixed images. But, instead of crying through my next class, I actually went and got an honorable score on the American Mathematics Contest. *Snort* NERD! *Snort*) Not my best piece, but I hope I can remove the fear of suckage and get on with unlocking things locked within. So how is it?
With that out of the way, The Sleater-Kinney Concert was freaking AMAZING!!!!!!! I know no one cares, but here's the setlist:
Sleater-Kinney at the Crystal Ballroom on the 12th August 2006. Last show :-(
Setlist:
The Fox
The End of You
Wilderness
Jumpers
One Beat
Step Aside
The Hot Rock
Rollercoaster
All Hands On The Bad One
Night Light
What's Mine is Yours
Stay Where You Are
Modern Girl
Let's call It Love
Entertain
Sympathy
Words and Guitar
Encore:
Milkshake 'n' Honey
You're No Rock 'n' Roll Fun
Not What You Want
Steep Air
God is a Number
Oh!
Dig Me Out
Encore 2:
Good Things
Turn it On
One More Hour
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMOMGOMG!!!! I never say that, so it must have been good! Everyone should pickup either "One Beat" or "The Woods." SK Roxers my soxers off! (If only he weren't so shy... Sorry, Bad Joke.) Seriously, great musicalness. Unfortunately, they didn't have any good merch at the concert, or online. :-( Oh, and the specialness with it being their last show, Eddie Veddar of Pearl Jam came out and played an acoustic song, and then a Really cute Ukulele Song with Janet, the drummer of SK. Rad.
Moving on... still buying college stuff... um. Sad, happy, fat, sexy. The usual. I learned how to play Stirb Nicht Vor Mir by Rammstein. I've been really into them lately. Listening right now, in fact.. ;-) I think I wanted to talk about something else... but I can't think of it. Things are good. Bye peeps!
"...Ich weiß, dass irgendwann
Irgendwer mich liebt."
"...I know, that sometime
Somebody loves me."
Auf Wiederseh'n