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Stupid hhead
I am very dumb.
The weight of all my failures
is crushing my heart.
It hurts. -
Day One
Im in McMinnville, OR which is a small city of 30,000 people. It's not far from where my friend Lajla and I are engaging our efforts and fulfilling our goal of working on an organic farm ( Read more... ) -
Friends Dying Young
They're not your family, your lover, your ex-lover, and sometimes you haven't really even talked to them for years and years. But they're better than acquaintances, more real than Princess Di, and even more real, though perhaps less tragic, than a body exploded in Baghdad; they were your friends and they died for whatever reason people die in ( Read more... ) -
ah memories
some favorite memories in my short tango life so far, and these are sarah-specific ( Read more... ) -
POEM #35
FIVE MONTHS AFTER THE DEFENSE, AN APOLOGY TO MY THESIS DIRECTOR ENDING WITH THE LINE FROM MILTON
Tony, because I’m an immature, American poet,
I chose movement over idea, the flag snapping
in the wind rather than the flagpole. I knew
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alas urban renewal
anybody wanna go watch them paint over all the neat colors at warm water cove park and sneer disapprovingly with an oh-so-hip-multicultural-acceptance-of-all-things-alternative attitude?
http://sf.funcheap.com/2007/07/25/warm-water-cove-graffiti-paint-out/
this isn't at the park, but it's on the same street eh.
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eyuck
anyone have antibiotics leftover?
I have tonsilitis and it feels like I'm getting punched in the throat everytime I swallow. -
rejected
woot i got rejections from Lyric and from Mid-American Review. Now I can put it into my spreadsheet.
also I just watched 28 weeks later and will have nightmares for the rest of my life. I feel like crying. goodbye. -
History is ironic, necessarily.
"You have sacrificed nearly ten thousand American lives-the flower of our youth. You have devastated provinces. You have slain uncounted thousands of the people you desire to benefit. You have established reconcentration camps. Your generals are coming home from their harvest bringing sheaves with them, in the shape of other thousands of sick and ( Read more... )
