j: heaven is worthless without the people you love.
we watched it burn from the roadside,
the hills alive and snarling, paper claws sweeping at the
galley of faces turned towards
the malformed skeleton of an apartment complex.
we wondered how midnight could be so bright,
the begging moon rose as we opened our mouths,
but no words came out.
without meaning [...]
It seemed like a good idea at the time but one can never be too certain, pulling back the velveteen blue curtain at the freak show and watching him saw off his limb. He looks up and explains to me, “These days, they want more, another inch off my leg and another hand sown [...]
Oct 20 Friday night youth group. Anna’s BDay Bash @ v2o.
Oct 21 Focus @ Russel’s w/ James, Willis, Amy, Naoko.
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Imagine you are in a prison. Inside this pastel cell of persimmon pink and lilac lamps, there is a porcelain toilet, spotlessly white. You must escape, you feel oppressed by this [...]
She remarked on the weather. Nostalgia, she said, for simpler times. How it’s all in the clouds, watching autumn drift in and I believe it, that these clouds took all those years to reach us and they were the same as they were then. But oh, doesn’t it feel like the end [...]
There’s strangeness I have yet to comprehend. The past nights since my return, I have lain in bed with a book; I am reading voraciously, devouring each page as if starved for literature, but just as the clock ticks 10 PM, my mind is suddenly overcome by heavy mist. Utter weariness. My [...]
Searching for evidence on another continent,
You come across two elderly men sitting on
A concrete bench in the middle of a loud
Promenade; it is noisy, thousands of people
Are talking all at once, laughter, festooned tourists,
Street performers brilliantly painted in uncanny poses,
Gold, silver! Vendors hawking green maps,
Women in red dresses, singing,
Lean boys smoking against the brown streetlamps.
You [...]
Home has a nice ring to it.
Our connecting flight from Chicago to Los Angeles was delayed by four hours due to a problem with the ignition. As we clambered aboard the plane, the pilot announced over the PA that the maitenance crew had to perform some last minute repairs. Don’t worry, he said, [...]
Sitting in the airport terminal, I am glad the restrooms are clean. This is probably the cleanest airport I´ve ever been in, very bright and airy, lots of space. There´s even this funky colored internet terminal from which I´m writing from. It costs only .10 euros per minute; pretty cheap, but I [...]
I lied about the last post bit. Last night we tried to attend a flamenco show but it was sold out. We semi-befriended the bartender with our foreign antics and broken speech, he’s a funny guy, reminds me of someone but louder. We attempted to go again tonight, and as it was [...]
Madrid is a dream. We are staying at Cat’s Hostel, a renovated palace with a beautiful interior, old style wood paneling and all the trimmings of royalty. The outside is not much to see though, embedded in a dark alleyway just a stone’s throw from the main streets. Unfortunately, it is just [...]