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Thought 2
I do small deeds of good not for the bows I receive but because it makes me feel good and no longer anonymous. -
Thought 1
Only someone who has the need to cling would stay with me. I do not want to be with someone who clings. -
Coming to This
We are done with what we wanted ( Read more... ) -
Final questions
No one wants to hear the poet wax about love ( Read more... ) -
Him and her 4
Him: Introverts aren't to be trusted in bed because they lack the expressive energy to please.
Her: You think you're an exception?
Him: Yes.
Her: Oh. Well then. -
Two friends
We are returning to history, the Chinese with their nationalism, the Russians with their pride, the Persians and their sense of worth and just deserts. Everything is perched on the precipice awaiting the final nudge. There are Sarajevos on every hotspot in the map, in Taiwan, in Iran, all up and down the Crimea. One little nudge and we're all gone ( Read more... ) -
Sometimes listening to classical music
makes my heart cry. This is a cliche, a bad cliche, a bad, very bad cliche. Bad on me. -
Voices
Someday I want to call a collection of poems and poems-prose "Voices." But there are so many. Whom to listen to, whom to include? Margo, perhaps. Stephen. Jameson. Arlene. Anja. I made up names just now. Only one is a real person, but in this space, on this canvas, it's not really real, not really. -
A crisis of faith explained
How do you not believe ( Read more... ) -
Vignettes about the ugly
Episode 1: A man who wants to wear cool expressions doesn't realize he looks uglier when he tries. The DiCaprio eyebrow-scrunch is particularly bad.
Episode 2: A man dies because he believes he's better than the girls he should be dating. One of them kills him after he gives her his theory on prostitution.
Episode 3: Sleep, perchance to dream.