If you hope to express controversial emotions in a conversational way without saying something you'll regret you should try The Pardon Me Approach ( Read more... )

We play on your terms. I am 'it' and you are 'not it' so I am doomed to chase after you for as long as we continue to play together. If I do manage to catch you, I will still be 'it' because if I wasn't 'it' there would be no game. We must play by your rules or we won't play at all. Isn't this a trick I showed you in the beginning? I pretended ( Read more... )

You said before that I knew just what to put in and what to leave out. You weren't like the other readers, the appointed judges, who found my allusions excessively unprofessional. They weren't pot-holes for you because you traveled on foot at a pace too slow to be bothered by the rough terrain. Those allusions weren't scary like the holes in the ( Read more... )

if you:
-hate the sound of your own voice
-love the look of your words in print
-are doomed to the over-production of both
-and obsessively discontent with that

please don't reply in person.

the kingdom comes down to a bath tub
a warm bed of water in which to lie
the place where some wait to be born
and many others have gone to die

here the nobility is humble
floating naked in that fortress
from a cocoon that cannot crumble
emerge wrinkled wings of solace

Just when I think it's all over, that all the mystery and adventure I live for is melted and burnt, I have ( one of those nights )

love is a treasure
life will provide
the pain and the pleasure
cannot be denied

let love be your pleasure
you don't have to hide
endless in its measure
your shame and your pride

( dervish )

i stopped avoiding me today, which was nice because i haven't seen very much of myself lately. i was blowing myself off a lot saying i was busy but really i just didn't feel up to seeing me. i had all these questions for myself but i knew i wasn't ready for the answers. it was unsettling to run into myself so unexpectedly when i thought i was ( Read more... )

however comical an analogy this is, my singing voice is a frog in my throat just like that bugs bunny show character who sings 'hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my rag time gal ( Read more... )