Category: Questions & Questioning

  • Associated Ringtones

    My God. The joy of ringtones. I stalk them. I’m constantly searching for the ultimate ringtones. I buy them, I have more than I can use, and then am at a loss. I mean, if I apply a ringtone to a person, then the song gets affiliated with them and their deeds. And what if…

  • Wrongful Yelling

    I yelled at my brother because he wronged us, because he wronged me. My aunt is suffering through cancer treatment that will most likely result in her death, but the odds being what they are and her will to live being what it is, there’s no other option. I yelled at my brother because he…

  • Answer

    For her to feel our family are vandals carving indifference into her heart Not here   She doesn’t use these exact words Where are they? The answer is exacting hissing in the air around and between us burning into the walls and branding our skin every inch words smoking notherenotherenotherenotherenotherenotherenothere

  • Context Normalcy

    My friend says it’s perfectly normal in context   My lip swelled to the size of Angelina Jolie’s lips on collagen came close to anaphylactic shock but for severe allergies it’s perfectly normal in context   I can’t concentrate and I panic often but for being depressed it’s perfectly normal in context   I peak…

  • Found Out

    Most of the time, she fancies herself unstable but really, she is just incompetent. Really, she’s just a fraud. Really, she is just addicted to feeling sorry for herself.   Today, she would rather sit and stare at the stone-colored zipper on her fleece jacket than anything else, besides sleep. She thinks about how she…

  • Living Dead

    The doctors and I have an understanding. We say things like, well, your treatment options are narrowing or to mix things up, we tell her, we’ll have to wait and see what the test results say. We do not say, your life options are limited.   We do not tell her she’s more likely to…

  • Dueling, Dueting

    Here’s how on-the-same-page poeticgrin and I are.     poeticgrin’s email:   Medicated Lady.  This is the same conversation we just had.   medicatedlady: What do you like to eat? poeticgrin: Cheeseburgers. medicatedlady: I love cheeseburgers.   What are you talking about?     My version:   This was our conversation.   Him (yesterday): you paint…