Finale, My Waterloo Days

29Nov08

IRIS retracts… Stinging yellow sunshine blends with blue pin wheeling circles mixing into acid green sparks. Combinations of coordinated colors explode and reflect on a solid black RIVER. A bridge burns… cinders fall into the Cedar… KCRR 97.7 streams a WAR OF STARS a SYMPHONY of crashes and booms that have nothing to do with [...]

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Siddhartha’s Dream

20Nov08

In Siddhartha dreams enlighten the dreamer to some greater truth, “when a man is asleep, he penetrates his innermost and dwells in Atman” (Hesse 1951 7). Siddhartha becomes restless when he realizes what he has become and his entire life sickens him. After a sleepless night he finally falls asleep at dawn and has a [...]

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Midwest Teenager

17Nov08

…Mum will soon walk in to bother me and ask what I am doing. I, of course, will tell her, home work! OK I was wrong, she just walked in. Her friend Nicole came over, fuck. Now she’s yelling at me to go bring the clothes in from the dryer… yes we live in ghetto [...]

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3 Odd Ends of the String

17Nov08

yo, another re-post. ha i just love keeping tabs on the lameness that was, is and always will be… me :] updates are in [these fuckers] enjoy… i am at odds with everything. my mum, my boyfriend, most of my friends, but mostly myself. i no longer take my medication for fear of becoming dependent [...]

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BLOGVOMIT

16Nov08

found another funny old blog, gosh the internet is fun :] conception: the process of arriving at an abstract idea or belief or the moment at which such an idea starts to take shape or emerge… i am not ever going to change but i finally realize this is a good thing. i am who [...]

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Tall Tale / Violent Keys

15Nov08

This is kind of a re-post because I made a video for one of my poems. I think it may have changed from the original so here you be: Tall Tale I scale a wall ten feet tall and curiously fall to the forest floor. Tree roots grab ankles, heels feel warm with moss growing [...]

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Aliens Foreign to ‘Beer Pong’

15Nov08

I was sent to Earth to cover the 2008 American Presidential Election by the great one of my home planet. I was to depart with a male version of my species and infiltrate the political processes of a Midwestern state. On Earth, mates live with each other beyond the necessity for child rearing. This was [...]

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Widow

15Nov08

A wedding ring slinks through the pipes of a crumbling claw-footed bathtub. I see you looking back at me in the mirror.

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Rock & Rule

12Nov08

Rock & Rule is a ridiculous movie that you should check out sometime if you get a chance. It’s set in the future after WWIII and everyone is descended from mutant cats and dogs and rats. It’s freaking hilarious. Here’s an excellent plot summary written by James Ellis: Angel, a member of a punk rock [...]

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Clementine

11Nov08

“Oh My Darling, Clementine” is an American western folk ballad usually credited to Percy Montrose (1884) though sometimes to Barker Bradford. The song is believed to have been based on another called “Down by the River Liv’d a Maiden” by H. S. Thompson (1863). The words are those of a bereaved lover singing about his [...]

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Never-Ever-Mind

11Nov08

I look around and love my world, I hate my life sometimes, no it’s not the same thing, not even close. I love the world around me, even the endless construction and trash I walk by on an ordinary day. I love the grey sky, I love the shitting dog… because everything else, everything living [...]

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Under the Feet of Jesus [book review]

11Nov08

Helena Viramontes’ novel “Under the Feet of Jesus” is a story concentrated with imagery and symbolism. I really connected with the way that Viramontes presents her characters and their setting. The quality of the images and symbolism she uses is what pulled me into the story immediately. I feel that the place she is writing [...]

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Faith

11Nov08

Whenever someone asks me if I am a person of faith I find myself torn. I am in the process of figuring out who I am by evaluating what I have been previously. Roughly from ages seven to seventeen I was active in Sunday school, church and youth group. I started riding the bus to [...]

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