i turned off my tv two years ago and haven't looked back ( Read more... )

we sat on a log and watched the moon rise over the water.
geese floated by - looking for bread and then moved on.
she leaned against me and listened to the water lap the shores.

we debated the fullness of the moon;
we gazed at the orange glow in the sky -
a sunrise without the sun -
as the lights came on and the streets remembered how to sigh.

i had a dream about you today ( Read more... )

i've been writing again.

let me know how this reads as a spoken word. I've got Ani in my head with her rhythms and intonations as it moves.
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i pushed myself so hard to bend i put myself into an emotional coma.
the effort of pushing this mountain of my mind that just won't bend was too much in the end
and i have fallen into the blissful ( Read more... )

my heart is heavy and my pockets light
i sit in a world that is waiting for me and do not reach out.
instead i lay in my mind and breathe;
allowing the emotions to engulf me, surround me.
i revisit old conversations.
i live in the memories of my past life
while my body goes through the motions of the world;
keeping up the pretenses of an occupied vessel.
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today starts two weeks of living in the moment ( Read more... )

hook suspensions. lots and lots of hook suspensions.
and this tiny little girl pulling a 400 lb. man out of his chair by the hooks in her back.
ho-ly F*#CK.
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"i did it for him", "i did it for me", "i did it for god".
every red color i see today reminds me of the blood.
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one thinks i shouldn't always be as much of a smart-ass as I can be, but it just ( Read more... )

we are naive when we criticize without actually seeing the person we are rejecting:

"While Democrats temporized, or even dismissed the fears of the white working class as racist or nativist, Republicans went to work. To be sure, the business wing of the Republican Party consists of the most energetic outsourcers, wage cutters and hirers of sub- ( Read more... )

i. am going to PDF ( Read more... )

halfheartedly ( Read more... )