Cheers to you my loyal servant On this night we call ours for the parks outside are shouting with fireworks and trashy concert music you and I are proud to get away from. Let them celebrate our silent communion; I with these cheap canned beers, You will the juice of my nearly unpayable electric bill. […]
there are these waking hours when your to-do list eludes you like forgotten keys or prodigal sock pairs or vanishing combs such that the fire of your morning brew leaves your fingers cold and your screen (or paper) empty and your imaginary people whose lives you are destined to chart sleep in their locked VIP […]
Once, they told me, I ate a lizard’s tail. My flattered ears overcame the suddennessof my once overcurious infant tongueand thought I was destinedto conquer great wallswith my astounding sense of balance,reptilian flexibility,and a strong gut for all things disgusting. But I didn’t become a gymnast. My cravings for the wayof the video game warrior […]
The stars charmed your heart like a child but it is like a child with ears shutfrom the truth that not all of them are.For you they are only flowers burning in the sky,the names that burn with themirrelevant to the way they lit softlythe emptiness you shelter away fromin the comfort of your laptopunder […]
Silent were the cherry blossoms when they shed out the lifelessness in petals pink and vibrant against the Tokyo sun loud was the welcome for the employee rushing to his bleak office building need not seek warmth in his coat against the resting breeze of a once frozen city and the beggar may now breathe […]
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