January 2012
7 posts
“Like most women, I currently live in a society where violence, harassment and...”
– Tiger Beatdown
December 2011
28 posts
“Today I found a scrap of paper where you’d scrawled your name. I hate the world for its traces of you. Don’t write me again.”
— Charles Jensen, excerpt from Debts
"As the Bruises Fade, the Lightning Aches"
As the bruises fade, the lightning aches. Last week, making love, you bit me. Now the blue and dark have gone and yellow bruises grow toward pale daffodils, then paler to become until my body is all my own and what that ever got me.
-Richard Brautigan
Michael Caine and Natalie Wood, 1966.
November 2011
11 posts
I have emotions that are like newspapers that read themselves. I go for days at a time trapped in the want ads. I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I’m yours ghosts and all.
-Richard Brautigan
“I’ve been numb for over a month now and the winter sneaked in with fast-moving clouds that colored the ocean that emerald-tinted, travel poster green (more like a swimming pool, really), but I was talking about the numbness— how it fashioned my days and held my hand, as the sunsets grew increasingly, predictably spectacular.”
— ...
October 2011
10 posts
Thinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone.
- Richard Brautigan