Once, there was a great dark bird, and he was the only bird like him in the world. He had winged his way across the seas and back many times. He was wise, but he was very lonely, for in his freewheeling travels, he had seen much of pain and suffering, but very little of beauty. He did not recognize he was lonely, for this was the only existence he ( Read more... )

Oh, polite smile. Is there anything more socially saving and emotionally awkward than you? You have saved my ass many a time, polite smile, hanging on for dear life about my lips when all I wanted to do was punch your recipient repeatedly in the throat. You are my level-headed compatriot, the one who keeps a lid on my sarcastic streak. No easy task ( Read more... )

Madness.

There was madness in any writer’s soul, for who but a masochist would want to write for a living? (Who was that one writer that said or maybe it was a poet) How could one do this-who could do this-accomplish this Sisyphean task of rolling the crushing boulder of an idea uphill through one’s mind? (need to get ahold of the girls) She ( Read more... )

That time is upon us.

I don't like to self-promote, so I will make this quick.

If you happened to like my entry for Week 1 of LJ Idol, feel free to vote for me.

The polls can be found here. I am in the 3rd poll/Tribe 3 ( Read more... )

The first thing I observed was that he was very, very ill. I wish I could say that the first thing I noticed was his cheeky grin, or the curious way his eyes darted over the crowd, but I can’t. The first thing I noticed was his hair. Soft brown, thin and wispy in a way that whispered of heavy doses of chemotherapy. The vivid curiosity of warm brown ( Read more... )

Here lies one whose name was writ in fire...There once was a famous poet who worried he would die without his words having made an impact on the world, that he would sink quietly into the easeful waters of death without so much as making a ripple. Thus, in the last days of his life, when it was clear his pen would no longer glean his teeming brain ( Read more... )