Last week a friend and I were going down the road, discussing so many things I don’t remember what led to our discussion of a post-Apocalyptic list.
The concept had crossed my mind, but here it was, in spoken form. Somehow the intangible act of saying something, translating thoughts and synaptic energy into audio, makes it more concrete.
Say some [...]
Archive for the ‘Abstractions’ Category
24 Jul
Love/Hate Relationship(s)
12 Jul
Driving
I ran over a mouse today.
I didn’t really mean to. Then again, I didn’t swerve to miss it.
It was presenting itself, pondering where to go, and I saw it, and I didn’t much think about it.
The car went on, as several-ton objects will do unless an equal and opposite force is applied.
I didn’t have to [...]
14 May
Compatibility
Some people seem unable to interact with strangers comfortably. They’re awkward in social situations, or can’t make small talk. Maybe they’re shy, maybe they don’t like relationships that are completely fleeting and casual, maybe they just hate the idea of people in general, until they know they’re not likely to be inundated with stupidity or [...]
14 Mar
I’m standing stock still
The pinpoint of sanity in topsy reality
My own touchstone
Constant
while around me is
spinning and vertigo
ing out of control
Centered
in a left-aligned,
right-aligned world
Fearing to reach out
I’d not pull others in
I’d only go circling out into the dark
what-I-cannot-see
Ending up in the orbit
of others’ reality
where they’re standing
Stock Still
not budging
in their own circles of knowledge
12 Mar
Do Hard Things
When my brother and I were younger, we often played sports or board games. I tend to be overly extremely fiercely, wildly, rather competitive about any and everything, and though the bro is less so, when we get together, we turn everything into a contest. Everything. We had to develop rules and word games to decide [...]
9 Feb
Lifer’s Block
In 09 I have more free time than at any other point in the past 8 years of my life. This is not a scientific calculation or anything, but a pretty close estimation. I have no school, just one main job, a few outside obligations, and nothing.
Yet I am getting less accomplished than when I [...]
8 Feb
The Vast Majority of Conspirators Disagree
I walked into the room and the occupants slowly, uniformly scattered like the film of water in a sink when toothpaste is spat onto the surface.
They hate me.
My hair is sticking straight up.
My bra is showing.
They read my blog.
No, none of that.
So they all hate me.
They must know something I don’t know.
I think I’d feel [...]
7 Feb
It’s Cold Outside
Numb is easier.
easier than pain
which drops the boulder on your gut in the night
driving you through the bed and the floor
constantly falling to you don’t know where
easier than happiness
which always brings that nagging feeling
of approaching sorrow
tiptoeing in behind the joy to suddenly suprise you.
Only you aren’t surprised
because you’ve been waiting for the sword to drop
the [...]
31 Jan
Exultation
Literature is saturated with the concept of heaven and hell, or afterlife in general, as are movies and TV. Whether you take it seriously (Dante’s Inferno and Paradiso), lightly (Charmed or really any TV show ever), sacrilegiously, abstractly (It’s a Wonderful Life), or from a childish viewpoint (ie how Wishbone always did the heavenly scenes [...]
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