March 2009
5 posts
dirty little pretty bruise
The battle scars one can be proud of. All over my
Body, the blacks and blues and reds convene and make their
Habitat under my bare skin. An honor one could gain by
Self-destruction and accidental mishap. The plot for the colors
To appear when least expected works every time. Every day is
Another discovery. Another discovery is an unexpected surprise.
If not on the arms, then the legs, then the...
a public relations nightmare
nuclear fallout
paranoia spreads like a disease
that ransacks small towns like the plague
people! run for your lives!
getting worked up over little things
doesn’t do one good for your health
people tune in on the televisions
straight to the all-news-all-the-time networks
that whore stories to death
beating the same trite facts into the ground
exploiting pain for profit and ratings
not to mention...
artificial nature
I sit under the sable mangrove of the night, surrounded by
spider lilies and sweet everlastings. The stars in the onyx sky
grow dim by the second as their bright potential fades before
they have the opportunity to observe another day. Pale
meadow beauties never live up to their name in the arctic
chill of the wind blowing in the night, withering one petal
at a time. The sign that the land of hope...
february 17, 2004
“Does it feel good being bad?”
He asked me this when I took a shot of whiskey and sucked the rough tastes through my mouth. Lips stained with red lipstick and saliva. Clothes scattered all over the floor of the seedy hotel room. He wore nothing but crisp, white boxers; I wore his button-down shirt, black fuck-me heels, and lustfulintoxication. I raised an eyebrow and said “Bad?...
countdowns can be so brutal and beautiful
forty-six more hours to go. the length of time needed for: - a package to travel from the humid climate of florida to the unpredictable weather of michigan - twenty-three showings of (insert title of movie with a run time of two hours long here in this space!) - the amount of time it has been since i e-mailed a response to a classified ad. RE: a position in fine jewelry. surrounded by...