December 2007
13 posts
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"with words like machetes; they cut to the...
and everything became clear once more. the sky, the sun, the moon, the desert. all became lucid as the day after a hard rain. i sat on the bench near the park, tossing bread scraps to passing geese, and lifted myself above the mountains, beyond the trees and the woods and the passing birds, high above the clouds that sat, single-file, in the azure, as if nothing held them from becoming one with...
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"You've got malaria"
“Yep,” the doctor continued, “that’s definitely malaria. You can tell, of course, by looking at your red blood cells underneath this magnifying thing right here.” The doctor motions to a microscope sitting on the table next to the patient. “You mean a ‘microscope’?” the patient asked, skeptic of the doctor. “Is that what you call that...
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Gideon and the Star
I don’t know yet what this will become… A silver flask sits at the edge of a nightstand in a stylish, high-end hotel near the west side of town. Gideon Nebuls tries to relax in a brown chair on his balcony. His room is on the 4th floor. It’s late afternoon and the sun has just begun its nighttime routine while the rain continues to fall from the mottled sky. Gideon listens to...
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A Revisiting (Part VIII) "111307"
this came about from a dream, actually… “…i want to be an astronaut. i want to go into space for a year and live on the space station up there with the other astronauts. we would do experiments like seeing if fungus could grow in outer space or if plants could survive or things like that. i don’t really know yet. i would sleep right-side up in a bean bag like you see them...
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A Revisiting (Part VII) "110807"
glass of wine/tin-can telephone/clouds never really follow me around/a sunset illusion “So…what are you doing again?” He asked curiously. “I’m writing a story, asshole. How many times do I have to tell you?” The other replied. “Shit i’m sorry, it’s just, I dunno, you NEVER write stories. Or anything for that matter. In fact the only time...
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A Revisiting (Part VI) "103107"
counting backwards from ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one… the heat permeates through the entire structure like lighting strikes. nonstop, failure after failure attack the systems, the controls succumb to the pressure, the flames pour into the circuitry, empty you bottles of wine, they flow like a river of the gods, pressure and fire throughout the entire level. this...
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A Revisiting (Part V) "102207"
hunger of a thousand suns Go. Now. Pack up your bags. Put away your things. Take what you need. Take everything you need. Take only things you need. Take that which you will need. Pack them all away. Remove the posters from the walls of your room. Put away those books on your shelf. Take down the clothes hanging in your closet. Take off the sheets on your bed. Fold them and put them away....
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A Revisiting (Part IV) "101707"
i dreamed of blackened sky. i saw reality for what it truly is. i only wished for the best. breathe! breathe, god dammit! don’t you fucking die! don’t do it! i swear to god if you fucking die.. the veins on his hands pulse and shake like the wand of a seismograph. he can’t believe it. after all these years this is what is has come to. a fucking joke. that’s what it is....
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A revisiting (Part III) "101507"
quetzecoatl dances in the fourth sun of teotihuacan as the earth quakes beneath rampant paws the python slithers in the tall grass of abandoned thought. and upon tainted hopes earth rises above the beating sun and python sinks to black marble beneath the ocean floor. tall grass stands now next to future events and sways within warm winds of the plumed serpant’s feathers. adastra waits in...
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A revisiting (Part II) "a beginning with no end"
Stars collide in the midnight sky And form matter transcended from dust.I could not discern between fabrics of timeAnd space befitting of us.Though suns when they shine may be bright for some timeThey play on illusion of sight.When bodies black out they leave us to doubtWith old photographs of light.The moon hangs low beneath blankets of blackSprinkled softly with points of white.And I think to...
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A revisiting (Part I)
i had written this for a girl, months ago, though we don’t talk much anymore. I was taken by a dream in my sleep the other night. I slipped into adeep slumber, remembering only the photograph on the mantle near the bed before collapsing into a total dreamscape. In this dream I am me,and I am reading a book. The book is no regular title and I cannot recallthe name of it either, but it is a...
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A Revisiting (Part N)
“The Murk” “Come with me, sinner, saint” said the Leader of Dusk, “Follow fast to the Land of the Sun. Where changes divide, Patterns forming from light, Where perception and life blend to one.” I stood in the Murk, raising eyes to the sky, A decision at hand to be made. But the Land of the Sun Is a place that you come To dispatch all your worldly brigades. “Don’t you see,” he...
A friend once said...
…that i wrote quite well. Well, here’s to that friend…