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Girl in the Moment
Boy says “hi” to girl. Girl says “hi” back. Boy retreats, so girl (with some chemical confidence) solicits boy (Hey you, where’d you go?). Boy replies his life is “GREAT!!!!” (he does not elaborate) and that he’s “kind of been doing [his] own thing. [He] studies and reads a lot.” Boy asks girl how she…
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Polish
It’s a goddamned shame. A single drip of pink nail polish wham-bam in the middle of your perfectly manicured nails, painted in a whitish-topcoat. Because what happens now has everything to do with smearing. Get the acetone. Get the q-tips. Get the cotton balls. Get what you can. It won’t matter. Perfection won’t be perfection any…
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Sacred What-not’s
It’s been another one of those trying times when I’m looked on with sheer alarm and utter pity by all those around me. Things I’ve learned in the past week, dear reader: Nothing is sacred. It is time to change doctors when the one you have effectively burns your what-not’s off. Often times, I am…
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Include But Are Not Limited to
There are consequences to living. The consequences include but are not limited to the remembering of the moments in which you became someone else: the doctor’s office, the dining room when you were 16 years old, the last glance at your childhood home (which is to say your last glance at home), his house,…
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that girl must die
Are you going to hurt yourself, he asks. I say no I think I’ve done enough of that. It’s so common I know but I hate knowing I’m unclean and having to tell to confess: I who knows better I who should know better than anyone I who wanted to please a man…
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Something Worse than Weak
I’m glad I got to see you Such sincerity She meant it Her eyes said she loved me Her eyes said she’d suffered Her eyes wouldn’t stop talking. In pettiness, I find grief, not just for her. I know I’m something more than wrong, I’m something worse than weak. I don’t think she notices.…
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Specifically Calling Out Poeticgrin aka Bryan Borland
I have been irrevocably offended. In a poem recently submitted to me for approval/critique/kicks, someone used two of the three word phrase I use in one of my delectable and entertaining poetic series. This violation will be worth a life time of 6’s and 8’s– never a 7!!
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Explore grief. Joan Didion introduces you to her world as her husband dies and her only daughter goes though intense medical crises. One of the best books I’ve ever read because Didion is plain-spoken and sharp-edged. She is brilliant at looping ideas to reflect the ruminations of grief/depression—not to mention it’s also a cool writing…
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Dear Medicated Lady
So from time to time I get questions from people about their lives and what they should do/deal with certain situations. As a result, I’ve decided to answer some of the most pressing questions on this blog. Please, feel free to contact me with additional questions or advice. Dear Medicated Lady, I am just…
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Lone Surviver by Marcus Luttrell
Gurglings of a conflicted mind, an exploratory post. I read this book, and it’s haunting me. It’s about a Navy SEAL team that went on a reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan. The team was compromised by local goat herders, who they allowed to live…to their own detriment. The goat herders presumably alerted the Taliban and…
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