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Saving this LJ account...
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over a year
over a year
since my last entry?
And now, I write;
I am no longer afraid to pour out my feelings
on the page--
Though they are scarier, more pungent, less gilded.
I am more comfortable in my discontent;
I know the searing ache in my chest
well enough to sleep at night.
It won't go away before the morning,
and the impulse won't leave before I wake.
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Stasis
As much as I want to write and exposit, I just don't have words.
A heavy sadness is pressing in on me.
Sadness over the state of my life, mostly, and my seeming lack of control over it.
It should be so easy -- almost tangible, as if I could physically reach out and grasp my own fate.
And every choice would be clear.
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Neologism
Coining new words to fit one's current state/emotions seems to be a full trend nowadays. I've been thinking about how fast-food commercials started doing it in full force to market sandwiches (BK's TenderCrisp, Wendy's Baconator), Where did the trend that confounds spell-check come from? Sometime in the '90s, we began this habit of smushing words ( Read more... )