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Nov. 1st, 2009

you don't feel that you could love me but I feel you could

well, it's over, and what surprises me most in the cold daylight is how many different kinds of hurt there are: I hurt that he won't be in my life, of course, but I also hurt for him - knowing that this is causing him pain too, but more so, hurting for him and his inability to fix himself, his refusal to address the sources of his pain, knowing the kind of awful numbness that he feels. frustration with myself for accepting subpar treatment and then feeling as though I don't deserve anything better, for not making this cut first - but I thought I could lift him up, and I can't do it, at least not right now.

First went wrong is hard to find
We’re paralyzed, we apologize
Our hell is a good life
Last went wrong, where’s my prize under the lights
Can we call it in?
We’ll be on the road
Can we stop?
When we stop my back will turn your face toward the fence
What I thought it was it isn’t now
All this weight, is honest worse
We’re moderate, we modernize
till our hell is a good life
All we know what to forget… how to do right
Coloring in the black hole
Can’t we stop? when we stop
My hands will shake, my eyes will burn
My throat will ache, watching you turn
From me toward your friends
What I thought it was it isn’t now
What I thought it was it isn’t
Punishment to stall what is done
What I thought was in is missing out
What I thought it was it isn’t now
There’s a pattern in the system
There’s a bullet in the gun
That’s why I tried to save you
But it can’t be done

Aug. 25th, 2009

where do I begin

I'd like to start blogging again - mostly in my real blog. But I don't know where to start! And my life is going well enough that I feel comfortable using exclamation points, ordinarily reserved for times of high drama and looked upon with scorn all of the rest of the time. I have another job and it pays a lot more. I have gross moths in my kitchen. I have friends and I have a boyfriend that I really, really like, much to my surprise, and the summer is ending and I can't wait to ride my bike again. One of these things first. Which one?

Apr. 2nd, 2009

not a culmination exactly

but I went to an orientation for volunteers for Capitol Letters and one of the videos of a local author doing an in-school workshop they showed was the one and only WILLIAM HENRY LEWIS, which made me want to go lay in bed with Annie and then drive around in the rain listening to Elliott Smith, which then made me think of Patrick Rosal and the only other class that I've ever had with a quote-unquote real writer, which brought me to the first poem, which brought me to the rest. I will post them in my real blog if I ever get my life together enough to resume writing there.

ein )
zwei )
 
 
 
 



drei )
vier )



Feb. 8th, 2009

an overly dramatic response to the failure of yet more small plans

Mayakovsky by Frank O'Hara

1
My heart's aflutter!
I am standing in the bath tub
crying. Mother, mother
who am I? If he
will just come back once
and kiss me on the face
his coarse hair brush
my temple, it's throbbing!

then I can put on my clothes
I guess, and walk the streets.

2
I love you. I love you,
but I'm turning to my verses
and my heart is closing
like a fist.

Words! be
sick as I am sick, swoon,
roll back your eyes, a pool,

and I'll stare down
at my wounded beauty
which at best is only a talent
for poetry.

Cannot please, cannot charm or win
what a poet!
and the clear water is thick

with bloody blows on its head.
I embraced a cloud,
but when I soared
it rained.

3
That's funny! there's blood on my chest
oh yes, I've been carrying bricks
what a funny place to rupture!
and now it is raining on the ailanthus
as I step out onto the window ledge
the tracks below me are smoky and
glistening with a passion for running
I leap into the leaves, green like the sea

4
Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.

The country is grey and
brown and white in trees,
snows and skies of laughter
always diminishing, less funny
not just darker, not just grey.

It may be the coldest day of
the year, what does he think of
that? I mean, what do I? And if I do,
perhaps I am myself again.


- Frank O'Hara

Do you want to know if I heard it first on "Mad Men"? Do you? Of course you do; of course I did.


Dec. 19th, 2008

(no subject)

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/wednesday-1217-john-mayer-thy-name-is-phi-kappa-tau/

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/thursday-1218-the-strange-tale-of-robert-barisford-brown/

Dec. 16th, 2008

(no subject)

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/monday-1215-like-you-and-me/

Dec. 2nd, 2008

(no subject)

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/monday-121-onward-and-upward/

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/wednesday-1126-things-for-which-i-am-a-sucker/

Nov. 20th, 2008

(no subject)

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/tuesday-1118-not-so-groovy/

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/wednesday-1119-animals/

Nov. 16th, 2008

(no subject)

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/11/16/saturday-1115-capsule-reviews/

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/friday-117-new-favorite/

Nov. 8th, 2008

(no subject)

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/wednesday-115-last-one-i-promise-for-the-night/

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/wednesday-115-its-2am-and-ive-played-eight-rounds/

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/friday-117-new-favorite/

Nov. 5th, 2008

(no subject)

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php?posted=374

Nov. 4th, 2008

(no subject)

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/tuesday-1028-somewhere/

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/wednesday-1029-stop-reading-jezebel-if-you-have-such-a-problem/

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/tuesday-114-its-not-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/

Oct. 27th, 2008

(no subject)

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/sunday-1026-the-starting-line/

Oct. 20th, 2008

(no subject)

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/sunday-1019-more-of-the-same/

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/monday-1020-clever-clever/

Oct. 16th, 2008

(no subject)

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/wednesday-1015-johnson-city-proves-me-wrong/

Oct. 13th, 2008

(no subject)

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/sunday-1012-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-love/

Oct. 10th, 2008

mo shallow mo blog

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/thursday-109-in-which-econ-110-has-not-proven-helpful/

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/thursday-109-the-other-reason-that-the-office-is-brilliant-etc/

Sep. 27th, 2008

(no subject)

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/friday-926-big-announcement-1/

Sep. 22nd, 2008

(no subject)

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/sunday-921-diamonds-on-the-inside/

I was tame this weekend, but it was fun - I miss Whitney and Marie a lot.

Sep. 19th, 2008

(no subject)

http://intrepidgirlreporter.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/thursday-918-not-the-news-you-were-hoping-for/

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