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mel, on the phone with her mother after ani difranco's wonderful pregnant 36th birthday show tonight:

"amazing. we were just in a place where we could openly love each other and be smiled at."

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in this (life) cycle, you will do something incredibly beautiful and extreme.
i love you so much. you are all i am. and beyond.
i am in awe and aware of your spirit and beauty.

it hit me today while rinsing out a washcloth at work that i am living in california.

shock,
anxiety,
exhilaration,
adjustment.

when we are in our happy places, all is perfection.
when tension parellels accentuated hormones,
reality begins to simulate death.

chemicals and energies.

years later i felt guilty for my childlike selfishness. she was not sleeping, not refusing to wake up as i yelled and climbed on her comatose body. they told me she was asleep, that she couldnt wake up, that the cancer in her brain was taking her away and all i understood was that she was more unresponsive than the morphine usually made her. gently ( Read more... )

the weather here is friendly.

they must cry because life was unfair. so vulnerable they feel in these moments, yet they are yearning for the ability to let go of this vain self-awareness. four down and two beers more to finish off the seven dollars and some change spent at the corner store earlier tonight. isn't it funny that they can manifest in seperate spaces during these ( Read more... )