love in the time

[paperhouse]

i read Love in the Time of Cholera (Amor En Los Tiempos del Colera) under office florescent light between the phones and clicking whirring interruptions, feeling like it was all wrong, like i had to make confessions to the quiet doe-eyed librarians or young Spanish girls on the bus. and when j. made that small sad noise after i mentioned my

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[black_eyelash]

Someone called 25to5 added me and I went to look at their journal/profile... No entries but a bio that boasted of having only the very best people on their friends page. I checked it and found you...

So I'm struck.

I like your images very much... And your poetry (particularly your dinosaur story-- reminiscent in some respects of Stephen Dobyns-- have you read him?)...

Direct declarative sentence: I think we should be friends.

[paperhouse]

yeah i really like dobyns , i didn't know him when i wrote that poem but whatever. he's great. i have something called porcupine kisses.

i'm no good at being freidns but thankyou

[harbours]

we are going to the lattimer's house for dinner. my mom made a cake with about a thousand pounds of chocolate in it. I'm going to write you an e-mail when I get home. xo

previously Ironchef8

[deusexbeginning]

Roaul.
In the time since you last updated this journal I've been reading poetry like crazy.
Probably 30 or so books of it.
From Bukowski to Shakespeare to Saul Williams to Kahlil Gibran
to several dozen others.
You just blew them all away again.

I'm glad to see you back, more than you know.
Even if it is only for this one time, that's more than I was expecting.

Re: previously Ironchef8

[paperhouse]

i'm hoping to be more frequent.

and shit, man, don't say those things ! ghosts are messin around here too much already. i mean i'll take on kahlil but...

[dsparklingb]

I'm so glad you're back!

I'm the new journal of darkpurple.

Have added you again, hope you don't mind. =)

[summerstorms]

besos :*

[paperhouse]

i cant wait for your romantic manifesto
xoxox