Month: May 2010

  • Things I’ve Learned from Various Straight Men So Far

    • his thoughts weren’t worth my penny, I decided (much too late) • if you want to keep him, don’t let him take you to Hot Springs • I’m needy • I’m weak • I’m bull-headed stubborn • if you want to get rid of him, talk about your own problems • if you like…

  • My Life As Adam’s Beard: A Review of Sorts

    As Bryan Borland’s closest frenemy, I have of course not read or bought his brilliant new book, My Life as Adam. I have seen the artistry on the front cover. It’s very intense. I have lived Spammed and seen the coming of Adam in twilight technicolor. The way Bryan cuts through his butter bread and…

  • What Comes Next (Words on My Lips)

    “you know what comes next,” I say to him with a sad smile it’s a smile I think he’ll come to know well >>>>>>> on my lips a song from yesterday words not quite audible not quite decipherable the melody doing the work working the doing working the words slowly forming on my lips

  • splatter

    I awoke to screaming lips a sigh beyond teeth clenched with an image in mind blood plastered image on my mind blood splattered image on my mind

  • Down to the Quick

    In Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now,” one of the lyrics goes, “oh I’d rather feel something than nothing at all.” Well, then. Clearly, they’ve never felt the peace of feeling nothing at all because although not a pleasant experience, if you can get that numb, it’s something that one really would prefer at times, especially…

  • Dating IV, or the Statistical Analysis of Love

    The significant dates. Dates as defined by calendar days but might be construed as dates as in dating, though some of the “dates” were really just mindless fucking. Whatever. You decide the definition(s). In a month’s time, you have a choice. The averages don’t lie. • March 5-April 5, 2008: you had 12 dates down…

  • fresh

    there were bare bones of the newly-released-from-the-flesh sort fresh bones in a soy bean crop on the side of the road bare bones of the not-so-innocent kind guilty bones not that you’ll read about that in the newspaper bare bones but not deservingly so bare because the life that enveloped them was torn loose bones…

  • less sad =

    Less sad = happy, when sidestepping track progress with your tracks how far you’ve come since you’ve been less sad = happy

  • This and That, Tit for Tat

    May 5. Since she is experiencing a sort-of dissociative episode, this writer will refer to Medicated Lady in the third person for the duration of this post. It might be a dissociative episode or it might be a sign of mental stability that she is not upset about her work situation, which is shit and…