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LJ Idol Season 10
It's a dark & dreary night. One of my room mates is trying to teach herself the accordian in the living room while another tries to sing along in Yiddish. I don't think what he's singing is actually Yiddish at all. I've locked myself in my room ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: Yes, Anastasia, Creeping Meatballism
Photograph of my Sister in the Garden
In a nightgown with an outstretched net
Running barefoot in the grass
Trying to capture white butterflies
Like Alice through the looking glass.
The hope the picture holds ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: Week 19: Que l'enfer, c'est seulement Canada
Pardon the blood on this letter. It certainly isn’t moose blood, despite moose being what Margaret Atwood, Michael Ontaatje, Miriam Towes, and I are currently tracking. It’s human blood. My own, actually. I was tying rope to a tree to secure our dollar store tarp over the tents. When I went to sever the excess length of the rope, my hand ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: Week 18: Cruising
There were two sisters standing in line at Safeway. One was called Louise and she wore a dress that looked like a doily that someone's grandma had knit many years ago. She held a plastic basket containing Smarties and M&Ms, maraschino cherries, and cream. The other sister wore a pair of brown corduroy pants with a grey hoodie. She held only a ( Read more... ) -
Week 16: “When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it."
Little Oedipus has wandering yellow eyes
that peer out of a smeared Picasso like
face.
Little abstract calico cat,
Your nerves push against your painted surface
But still
You are as stiff as a stone gargoyle
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LJ Week 15: Satisfaction Guaranteed & Call and Response
Topic: Week 15 ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: Week 12: Happy Place
I was thirty six years old when I lost my job at Walmart and the first thing that I did was buy a dog ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: Occhiolism
Hi. So a few things ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week 10: Hedging Your Bets/Streaming
Dorris found the head of customer relations to be intolerant and prone to temper tantrums at the slightest hint of unproductivity, but he listened right away to her entire story. Much to her dismay. To be fair, given the situation, it couldn’t very well be avoided ( Read more... )
