May 2012
115 posts
“A man of words and not of deeds
Is like a garden full of weeds
And when the weeds begin to grow
It’s like a garden full of snow
And when the snow begins to fall
It’s like a bird upon the wall
And when the bird away does fly
It’s like an eagle in the sky
And when the sky begins to roar
It’s like a lion at the door
And when the door begins to crack
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No multitude of words could have been more significant than these moments of...
– The Awakening
She was folding laundry that wasn’t originally hers and sitting it under her open windowsill. As if she sensed my presence lingering, she calmly stopped while I stood under the arch of her bedroom, and turned, kissing me gently. “Tell me about your day.” “Nah” I shrugged, “I’d rather hear about yours.” We never got to that conversation.
Hours later, she emerged from bed in only my t-shirt and sat...
Did you eat something that didn’t agree with you?” asked Bernard.
The Savage...
– Brave New World
#7 was meat, a veritable cow cursed to live complexly like a boy, as in the...
– Dennis Cooper, The Marbled Swarm
“Does this darkness have a name? This cruelty, this hatred, how did it find us? Did it steal into our lives or did we seek it out and embrace it? What happened to us that we now send our children into the world like we send young men to war, hoping for their safe return, but knowing that some would be lost along the way. When did we lose our way? Consumed by the shadows. Swallowed whole by the...
BUFFY, ALL NIGHT
The boy saw the comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it...
Pisces Fact # 219
When a pisces has a feeling that something is going to happen, it usually does happen.