born into this mess
Thursday, March 31, 2005
 
If I ever end up braindead, my god, please don't trap me in my body.
 
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I neglected to pay my roadrunner bill while i was on spring break and thus have no internet at home. i'm thinking it's good for me to detach from the internet, so i haven't been updating so much lately. there's abundant wireless internet, and it's been somewhat liberating to have more time at home not spent on the computer.

friday I ran a red light, late for work, and totalled my car. i'm getting a loan and will probably buy an old civic or something. i may hold off for a while and just ride my bike around. it's been nice not having to shell out 25 bucks on gas.

 

we hit concrete @ 9:12 AM

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Monday, March 28, 2005
  Poem for Monday, March 28, 2005






Walking Home Across the Island


by Jack Gilbert




Walking home across the plain in the dark.
And Linda crying. Again we have come
to a place where I rail and she suffers and the moon
does not rise. We have only each other,
but I am shouting in the rain
and she is crying like a wounded animal,
knowing there is no place to turn. It is hard
to understand how we could be brought here by love.



Burke's Book Store
1719 Poplar Avenue
Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 278-7484
www.burkesbooks.com
Winner of Best of Memphis in Memphis Flyer
for 7 Straight Years

 

we hit concrete @ 2:18 PM

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  I be cheffin' like a mofo
sushi party pictures.

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we hit concrete @ 1:21 PM

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Tuesday, March 22, 2005
 
prodigal


put a ring on my finger
a fat calf on the table
clean me up
and welcome me home.


around our feet
and under the table
memory growls like a dog
over greasy bones.

these are the things we will not say again:

for all the years I lived in shit
are the years you taught me I was a pig.
 

we hit concrete @ 9:19 AM

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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
  babies rule


Sherbert learned how to stand up by herself while I was on spring break, and when I was cleaning the bathroom I heard her gurgling and cooing in the hall and had to go hug her. 2 weeks with no baby is a long time.

anyhow, she pulled herself up and was standing in front of me, sort of wobbling between her wide planted leg, and then looked and me and grinned...

and took a step towards me.

 

we hit concrete @ 6:25 PM

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Tuesday, March 15, 2005
  bullies are just insecure
"If you thought the Americans were going to bomb you, wouldn't you bury this stuff, too?"
ny times

Dear W,

in kindergarten, someone who beats up the other kids, steals their toys, and won't let them have any new ones gets put in the Time Out Corner.
Have you ever been to Siberia? I hear it's lovely in the spring.
Sincerely,
Me
 

we hit concrete @ 6:32 AM

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Monday, March 14, 2005
  no sleep til...
miles driven: 1823
cities visited: bloomington, columbus, easton, philadelphia, brooklyn, manhattan
couches slept on: 4
friendships renewed: 4
rolls of film taken: 6
times i got lost: 4
anxiety attacks: 1
items of clothing lost: 1
speeding tickets received: 1
inchoherent phonecalls made from outside a terrible underground (as in below the sidewalk) bar in chelsea: 3


too overstimulated to write more. off to read my friend paco's book. eep!
 

we hit concrete @ 8:10 PM

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  Poem for Monday, March 14, 2005
Poem for Monday, March 14, 2005



Poem


by Bill Knott



A kite in the shape
of a map floats
over the land it depicts,

but at night no one sees
its roads at the end
of which a child feels

his hand tugged upwards,
disappearing
in salutations.



Burke's Book Store
1719 Poplar Avenue
Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 278-7484
www.burkesbooks.com
Winner of Best of Memphis in Memphis Flyer
for 7 Straight Years
 

we hit concrete @ 3:12 PM

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Friday, March 11, 2005
  up there glowing




the first time I read my name is Asher Lev I was 12 or so. since then it's been countless others, the willow tree, the fortress of solitude,hundreds of stories. all of them pushing me to one place.

where I want to be when I grow up has always been easier than what I want to be.

the anonymous come out at night and autograph the walls. here I am. I saw this. look at it. there's so much less anomie when one's name is embedded in others' optic nerves.

cast iron fences keep the trash cans from running away at night.

the korean grocery on the corner has better prices than the schnuck's back home.

stairsteps and peeling paint and cherubim perched on the rooftop corners.


never manhattan. never any longing to mingle with the sort of people who would spend a thousand dollars on shoes. no starstruck searching for certain faces. never a pull toward tiny pretty food or 10 dollar martinis.

but brooklyn. where I always thought I'd end up but never really believed it.

I'm here. it's like coming home after a 15 year absence.


I don't know how I'll be able to handle going back to Memphis after just two nights and a day.
I guess I go back and work my ass off to get out of debt and save up enough to start doing what I wanted to all along.


it's snowing.

 

we hit concrete @ 8:55 AM

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Monday, March 07, 2005
  things I have learned so far on this trip
bloomington is like athens, but smaller and more polite.

midwestern white kids can't dance. i couldn't tell you about kids of other colors, since i didn't see any the entire time i was there.

every small town between memphis and louisville has a seventh adventist church, a kingdom hall, and an lds church directly on the highway.

there were many barns, and many many water towers.

my face has changed greatly in the past three years. i couldn't tell you why.

is it true that one needs a license to busk in NYC?
 

we hit concrete @ 5:06 PM

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Tuesday, March 01, 2005
  thank you thank you thank you



a couple of exmases ago...



there's my mom and dad.

they totally rule.

thank you.
thank you.
thank you.
thank you.
thank you.
thank you.
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thank you.
thank you.
thank you.
thank you.
thank you.
thank you.
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thank you.
thank you.
thank you.
thank you.
thank you.
thank you.
thank you.

 

we hit concrete @ 8:23 PM

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  bastard out of carolina
It wasn't God who made us like this, I thought. We'd gotten ourselves messed up on our own.




We had all wanted the simplest thing, to love and be loved and be safe together, but we had lost it and we didn't know how to get it back.


It's been almost a week since I had any solitude, any time to sit alone and think and read. Got home from school and made a sandwich and curled up in bed to read Bastard Out of Carolina and didn't stop until I finished it just now.

Nothing like reading to make a body want to write.

 

we hit concrete @ 3:41 PM

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of you folks up in this mess

I'll lean on you sometimes.
Just to see if you're still there
These feet can't take the weight of one,
much less two, so we hit concrete.

How were we born into this mess?

Jawbreaker, "Kiss the Bottle"

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