December 2010
236 posts
I smell like hemp and lavender. I haven’t shaved in three months, and am all nice and hairy. I return to Seattle tomorrow, arriving to my best friend’s birthday party. I will be picked up at the airport, put on my requisite woven golden tassel party slut top and a velvet skirt with velvet shoes and a cape, head to the bar, then finally go to her party. I’ll have presents to give...
Itunes Genius knows me so well, and has pre-made me a ‘Honky Tonk & Outlaw Mix’.
I have longed to move away From the hissing of the spent lie And the old terrors’ continual cry Growing more terrible as the day Goes over the hill into the deep sea; I have longed to move away From the repetition of salutes, For there are ghosts in the air And ghostly echoes on paper, And the thunder of calls and notes.
I have longed to move away but am afraid; Some life, yet unspent,...
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating. Both of you are great light borrowers. Her O-mouth grieves at the world; yours is unaffected, And your first gift is making stone out of everything. I wake to a mausoleum; you are here, Ticking your fingers on the marble table, looking for cigarettes, Spiteful as a woman,...
Description of Her Eyes
Two teaspoonfuls, and my mind goes everyone can kiss my ass now—
then it’s changed, I change my mind.
Eyes so sad, and infinitely kind.
Franz Wright
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
Hermann Hesse, Demian
Please
Do you think of me as often as I think of you?
Richard Brautigan
