Tag: clouds
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Logic
takes into account any particular train of thought that your brain might have, whether you’re imagining a woman in a white dress with her back to you in a field in Kansas, waving at clouds overhead, or a poetry mentor in a sleeveless white t-shirt eating sardines with you in his office, it rides along […]
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Well
On mornings like this one I’m worried about the fact that I don’t seem to be worried about anything. “It’s too early to worry,” I tell myself, while pouring another cup of French Roast. I’m like a sailboat of ease floating into a sunset underneath white linen clouds I can’t salt or pepper with adjectives […]
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Wall
Did you know that guy who draws, that that guy you said you loved imagined himself to be the grieving parent of a castaway floating out into hopelessness? I guess others have supported me so often that that’s all I want to do now. But that’s also why happiness can’t break through me like sunlight […]
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Hot Air Balloon
The perfect girl for me in my grandmother’s head she used to tell me would someday find me and whisk me off into the Swiss alps via a hot air balloon, had a parking place in the middle of an alpine field where tiny lavender flowers pushed against a background of golden grass as far […]
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Vulture
In my vulture covered chest there is a maelstrom inside which God’s Walkman plays the sound of the sun. I’ve tried to weld it onto my sheet-like head, but it just won’t melt properly. Maybe I should go get the H-bomb and jump into Turkey Pond with it, volcano into the air, and pop tart […]
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Peanut Butter & Jelly
Is this face smiling some potion of endorphins and gray matter peanut butter and jellying me onto two slices of Time, one slice for the future’s pie hole, the other for the past’s, both connected by some shared colon sphinctering me out into a practically unbearable present? I’m sure the secret to understanding what it […]
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Cloud III
Being abused has its warm spots. You develop a superhuman sense to detect danger and an intimidating ability to observe subtle cues most people miss or prefer to forget. I first noticed this when I was 7, where, upon returning home from school I knew my mother wanted me to proceed to the bedroom and […]
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Cupcake
This new article had come out in one of the nation’s top magazines about how interrupting others is healthy for the new consciousness attention deficit disorder had helped to create, ironically. As a result, you couldn’t walk down the street without someone getting in your face and making you stop whatever it was you were […]
the real subject is always you 