Tuesday, April 28, 2009
the sun comes up -- I think about you
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
woman like a man (just like virginia woolf)
when I can't sleep (want to, but can't, will force myself not to) I write. Go me.
I wonder what it would be like if I had been born a genderless human. Or more androgynous than I am. Because no matter what I wake up as, how I see myself in my mind and on paper, when I look in the mirror I see the face of a girl -- heart face and round eyes, blue ice and strange October features on a December baby. "you are mine" (michaelson 10). I hate waking up a boy because I feel it in my bones and skin. I dont' have boy pants, so I wear whatever pants I find and band T-shirts with a high neckline, black with sleeves past the armpits so people don't see the lack of shaving. I wear jean jackets and sneakers and feel my vocal range become husky and low. I see girls in the street. Today I was a person. I wore a skirt and a band T-shirt. I felt like a foreigner in my own body.
I don't know why this is happening to me, but I'll go with it. who knows? it might shape me as a person. every other fucked up thing has, after all.
Thursday, February 05, 2009
when I see couples down the street, I walk on by.
And of course i'm scared.
i'm scared of losing everything because of my selfishness or my independence
of my flakiness and I'm not willing to change a thing
"I, I'm a mascot for what you've become" (wentz 7).
because baby, I can't fight it,
and you, you can't fix a thing.
when you think about taking yourself out just so you can stop thinking, thinking about it all the time
and I'm a coward so I don't try a thing.
updating in hallways.
"It's horrid to see you again, so bored of being... alive, alive, alive" (molko at some point).
Friday, December 26, 2008
Thursday, December 25, 2008
brittle breakable girls
though the sound resonates through both ears
i don't feel anything from it
perhaps it's the meds that make me feel like this
or her, or anyone
because the world doesn't revolve around me
fuck your new year
and fuck your sunshine and open casket
I want a temporary death, so I can test it out
and get a refund if I'm not satisfied
guaranteed
ha ha ha, but nobody's laughing
and it's just me alone and the static
and your voice crooning in my ear. fuck your sunshine
fuck your glory days
these aren't mine
I won't peak
merry fucking christmas
Saturday, December 13, 2008
and never have I ever
i'm so sorry
but not really
because i'm all tears and crocodile wishes
all loves and lonely heartbroken words
and ways and clocks and ticking ticking time
i fail to rhyme to change.
"and i literally broke the english language"
sorry to hear that. i'm starting to look like you
i hope you know
i dont think i'm brilliant enough for anyone
"just because you don't like a person"
no, more because a person told me i was an not-genuine failure
why thank you
i know you meant it well
Sunday, November 30, 2008
maybe I would have been something you'd be good at.
And I finally realize now that I don't care.
I don't regret you. Not in the slightest. I just regret that you thought that way about me. And that it ended so badly. Two different people in different phases of moving on. So yes, I had forgotten about needing you by the time you "broke it off". I had forgotten what it was like to have the longing, the stupid aching feeling in the chest. You hadn't become insignificant to me so much as I forgot how to love you, how to want to talk to you. I'm not sorry about it. I just regret that you couldn't acknowledge the inevitable. I wish you the best of luck, really. And I'm glad it's weird for you, because it's weird for me too.
I'm not the bad guy here, you know? Don't make me out to be that. It takes two to fall apart.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
i don't follow anything
whatever it is.
you say you want things I could give you,
but I'm too shy to say
you're a wreck, just a soft, sweet wreck
and the conventions of this language can't
even begin to describe any of this
six months to this day and i would have gone for it
gone for you and the idea of you, I guess that's what I loved
and even after all of this, I cradle my head in my hands
and taste the same old regret, over and over again
just musky enough to let me know that it's weird for you
it's too normal for me. i can't say what I feel because I am blind
don't you even speak to me, because I am avoiding being an idiot and fool
and breaking off what could have been beautiful.
i'm sorry.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
i'm still trapped between the end and the means
I want to be you. I don't want this. i'm already gone in so many ways and it hurts to say, oh it hurts hurts hurts me to say this to you
"harsh but excruciatingly true" oh you would think that wouldn't you, tear me in two, oh my isn't this a funny little mess i've gotten myself into.
and it's only you who would expect so much of me. how kind. how generous. how considerate of you. I don't fucking care. This is a place for florid poetry and pretending I'm smarter than I actually am, but right now I'm just really fucking mad. I never realized that there was any color in the pture at all, I thought there was only dust and sepia. not even sure how to pronounce sepia. (see-pee-a? seh-pee-ah?) I don't know, and I can't be sure, and I can't say I want you because I don't know you . I don't know a lot of things. This is a surefire place for repetition and it's boring and I hate myself for things I don't even know about. What is my swing state? What is the color of my rain? Why does the sky listen, not listen, throw itself before my feet and laugh in my face?
why is there such laughably bad handwriting in this? It's not as though I haven't tried to fight it. I really have, honest/. I'm being good. I'm not even bothering to correct this and it's rife with grammatical errors and my fingers hurt and this is not even a grammatically correct sentence and i don't care what you think as long as it's about meeeeee... oh I love quoting horrid lyrics. I can't spell, but the thing is I really can.
I just want to be told pretty lies. I want you to treat me like I deserve to be treated. I want you to not tell me how a relationship should go, that I'm wrong when I know that I'm right and you're just being a bitch.
Love me, love me, say that you love me. Ha.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
turpentine kisses and mistaken blows
and the ruins of my name be the father, the son, the holy spirit, and all that catholic bullshit they feed you under the frames.
take me down and make me whole again.
repeat me on and on
but you wouldn't, would you?
cryptic city, no party for a sad sad soul.
Monday, September 01, 2008
you can't recall, well neither can I
lying in this field of broken glass,
the moments passed and you said,
"you could be my boy if you only tried"
and how am I supposed to feel about that?
where am I to go when there's no holding back?
and what did I do to veer off the tracks
you said, "now that the world is something..."
girls will be boys all torn up inside
and boys will be girls with nothing to hide
and I'm in the middle, just 'cause I lied
and said, "I need to let it go"
Thursday, August 28, 2008
love is
the poor and the wise all know the same tricks
and here I am
weaving charms through the hair of old wives,
gypsies, men of distortion/distinction
they wear converse and speak in tongues
beards and all, I love them and their urban smell
i still feel so unclean and tainted by their world
"as the statues cry
and the buildings crumble side by side
at least we'll know now who was left behind
shattered through the halls
with your arms spread wide to love it all
I'm not sure if I can break these walls
trip on icy stairs/stares
my whole world is burning, I don't care
because you're not here
breath on jaded glass
we all knew that this would come to pass
but will I disappear?"
Monday, August 25, 2008
life (spare) changes
i'm blue and floating, a different face in different water, time changes, fish slowly drying up on beaches and hurt life no other
(dreaful sentences, "you can't wirte you can't think anymore")
and every word I remember, because it's only you. hurt me and take me with you, but fuck all if you're taking my soul.
Thursday, August 07, 2008
and all the hurt you call your own, you know, you know (nobody's ever you)
don't wait up for me. let your mess and fairy wings fly you away. I can't find the words I want to express the image and the moment. I want your smile, your voice, your face, your eyes. I would make the perfect freak baby/child/woman.
want me I am all yours for the taking
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
when the lights went black
repeated letters and phrases, over and over again
though I did, I really did mean it in the end
I recognize the song in your headphones, in your heart
you look lost and I feel that stretch
between seriousness and playing it off as some fun
and my mediocrity shines through like no other
like crystals set in gates, like china trapped in glass
and really, my skin is disgusting, I want to unzip myself
and walk some great distance for you
I stay away from the specifics, but I want someone to hold my hand and mean it
oh can't you stop me from thinking so much?
Saturday, July 26, 2008
itrwywfm v 2.0
and we are lonely planets, constellations, missing links and half broken pieces. I can't imagine you underwater, but it would be nice if I could.
x out the numbers. I want you to notice me though you wouldn't. it's sad and pathetic but perhaps I have surpassed you in the vague category.
definite. not defiant. not definate.
ridiculous, not rediculous.
why can't anyone spell?
