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[Sunday, August 17th, 2008
@ 02:15am
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This is not new, this, actually, is a pattern. I do the thing I know I’m not supposed to do, I get the thing I am not supposed to want [someone gives it, I give it to myself], the rush comes, the rushrushrush, the feeling is the same, the reaction is the same, the outcome is going to be the same, the layers are the same they always have been, I think about how wrong it is, I think about all the textbook definitions, I try to hate myself, I try to be ashamed of myself, I try so hard, I try to examine it, [rushrushrush] I think, why why, why does this feel good, why is this something I need, why is the outcome always the same [the same for me, different from most everyone else, big anomaly], why, right, why. I know the why someone can give me, but haven’t found the one I can tell myself. I don’t know. It’s good, I do it, so what.
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[Saturday, August 16th, 2008
@ 00:13am
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oh, SERENDIPITOUS, WITH EXCLAMATIONS!!!
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[Thursday, August 14th, 2008
@ 22:51pm
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I've said serendipitous!!! [very exclamationy!] like two hundred times today. It didn't bring upon serendipitous-happenings, though. I keep buying myself things. I refuse to feel guilty over it.
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[Thursday, August 7th, 2008
@ 01:44am
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p: So, there's that.
p: My subconscious, beating me over the fucking head.
s: Sorry to state the obvious, but
s: That's not your subconscious
p: sigh.


p: I am just expecting them to be more obvious, ?
p: and that's the wrong attitude to have?
p: yes?
s: Yes
s: I would say yes
s: Most everyone I know had more confusing ones than you did, in the beginning
p: SERIOUSLY?
s: Yeah
p: ... ehm.
p: and now they've all been initiated.
s: Now they're all initiates
s: That's right.
p: oi oi.
s: Don't take it the wrong way
p: no no! I'm not, seriously.
s: It just means you're really ...advantageous
p: ahaha.
p: It would have been great right then if you had said bewitching.
s: Uhh
p: Or not, whatever.
s: I could have said tempting
p: but that makes you sound like Humbert Humbert?
s: Oh go to sleep
s: Sweet dreams
p: haha oh my god..
s: You asked for it, Tifi
p: I know!!
p: Nicely!
p: I asked for it nicely!
s: Apparently
p: with halloween candy.
p: and pixi stix
s: Bewitching pixi stix
p: hahah
p: also. You have been cooped up in that room for too long.
s: Because I'm humoring you?
p: because you're humoring me, yep.
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[Monday, July 28th, 2008
@ 06:38am
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No one has ever given me anything old, I say.

That’s sad, he says.

What? I was lying. That was obviously a lie.

Alright, he says. Like he is consoling a baby tiger. The book on his right knee has a copyright date exactly twenty years older than I am. I want to ask if cufflinks are still in non-ironic fashion but I feel like that would not be appropriate, and so I don’t, since it is not the kind of inappropriate that is somehow more appealing than risky, or cute than offensive, or salacious than idiotic; the kind of inappropriate that is calculated. [That scene with the bacon and the eggs, you know what I’m talking about, she eats the bacon, right? I think so. It’s been awhile.]

-
I say, quiz me.
Pick a line.
Start it.
And I’ll finish it.

The idea should be for me to be showing off, which I am, which I do, but the real trick is, oh, what’s it called. Asking someone what time it is while they’re looking at their cards. Oh, you know. That way your mind searches through a mass of something to find the individual thing it’s thinking about anyway.


[is moving its slow thighs while all about it,
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.]

But maybe not, right, what do I know.
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memoirs of a sort-of-not-really semi-post-tarantino generation, chapter 45 [Monday, July 21st, 2008
@ 00:28am
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Well, this is strange. Seth Gecko teaching Kate how to drink is still really absurdly hot to me? I don't. I uh. I don't know. It was really hot to me AWHILE AGO, and I should BE OVER IT, but. Really though, "slam it down"??? I am a sick puppy.
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i keep track of every cliche mean thing anyone has ever told me [even when they are not for me] [Sunday, July 13th, 2008
@ 18:21pm
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girl, he says, if what you want is someone old enough to drink scotch then you better be ready enough for the things he says while he does, alright?
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[Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
@ 11:02am
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a photoset: cages )
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[Sunday, July 6th, 2008
@ 05:51am
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like what, then, you'll come home to beige carpets and mix up a martini and she'll be in a slip with tv-glow on her skin and everything will be fine, is that it? is what what you're looking forward to? your little anthology of neat magic-marker Xes in individual boxes on the Shores-of-the-World calendar you won in an office party raffle, is that what they're all leading up to?
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[Saturday, July 5th, 2008
@ 00:56am
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When the inevitable question comes and I pick at my hands and stare at a not-quite-target spot on your chin and answer you, tell you I am doing the same, that I am feeling the same, and you half-smile forty-nine percent doubting and fifty-one percent pacified, I am actually not lying to you. The other times were lies and this is the truth, this looks to you like avoidance but it's a little tiny false breakthrough, I am taking the higher ground and giving you the truth, because otherwise I'd lie again and even if you couldn't tell, really, I would know, I would know and get away with it and you would make little notes, another antiphrasis for your collection, otherwise I'd just be running in circles, one falsity chain-linking itself to the long line of the others, [insert metaphor of your grabby little hands holding on and sifting through them all], but, hey, where's the honor in that, right? The honor is in being an honest person. I am doing exactly the same.
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polishing the brass on the Titanic [Monday, June 30th, 2008
@ 01:57am
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"Tyler on sort of a philosophic, political level, he definitely represents sort of a Nietzschean impulse toward the idea of nihilism as a practical approach; I mean he is a lot like Nietzsche's Zarathustra, the idea that nothing can change in a positive way unless a lot of old values are ripped down. What gets kind of explored in the film is the idea that nihilism is a very sexy idea when you're young and feel frustrated, but that becoming mature means recognizing the practical limits and in some ways the hypocrisies which nihilism lends itself to... [pause] Oh, I have a funny story about this scene."

Life Goal 9920479: Have a conversation with Edward Norton about nihilism. [And how 'nihilistic anarchist' is not ALWAYS an oxymoron, okay.]
This may/may not coincide with Life Goal 9920475 Birds and stones!

IN CASE it's not totally fucking obvious, blinking neon pink lights, these Life Goals here are a lot like the fortune cookie game, in that, you know, there are two words [five letters] that you can tack onto the end and it always, always works.
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[Thursday, June 26th, 2008
@ 19:22pm
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[ mood | nihilistic ]

ouch.

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I typed muscularity on accident [Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
@ 03:06am
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Had a stupid sort of realization tonight. Sometimes I don't handle axiomatic things very well. I mean, really, what's the point. I would much rather pick apart minuscule things. [none of this was the realization]
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this sums up me as a person [or not-person?] perfectly [Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
@ 00:45am
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guy at sometimes-awkward poker game: at first I thought you were, like, into me but then I sort of figured you were just real happy about getting all of my money, huh?



!(!(!(!!(!(

Sorry, dude, ineptitude doesn't really get me hot.
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[Friday, June 20th, 2008
@ 19:59pm
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It was a genuine lie, though.

Sometimes your contradictions make no sense to me.

It's because they aren't contradictions.

[Friday, June 20th, 2008
@ 01:35am
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they tell me about the place they are staying.
they say predictable things.
like this;
you know what it's like though, it's almost exactly like this-
oh yeah, right! yeah, this place we stayed at once-
yeah yeah, with the-
uh huh, these walls.
these walls were so thin-
yeah.
yeah, we didn't rent any movies or anything.
right. we'd just wait it out.
we'd just wait it out and our neighbors would rent them-
uh huh, they'd get two a night or something, maybe-

i can imagine it in my head. i say, i can imagine that in my head.
we like your head.
that came out wrong.
yeah. you know what i meant.
she knew what you meant.

i say, i know what you meant. it was sweet, thanks. if i steal this would you mind?
no.
no.
thank us in your book.
yeah, our real names.

[tweedle dum and tweedle dee jokes]
i tell them i don't usually ask. i tell them i am grabby and selfish, but they laugh like i'm kidding. i have a memory of the way one of my stupid ribcage drawings looked up on a wall next to one of their xrays, focused in the distance while their heads were blurry in front, too close, i have a memory of pulling at short hair until the gel went soft. things are falling apart. things are always falling apart. i feel lonely but heavy, not a weightless kind of lonely, just, something, something there.

here is a secret: i love the new colors and the way they form the way i love my garden, except there is instant gratification, there is physicality, there is proximity and it is all me.
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fourth in a row, sorry. [Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
@ 13:55pm
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it's the cool of the evening the sun's goin' down, i want to hold you in my arms i want to push you around, i want to break your bottle and spill out all your charms, come on baby we'll set off all the burglar alarms.

[Sunday, June 15th, 2008
@ 19:09pm
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Oh, journal. Last night I had this really perfect moving dream about this EXACT version of Tom Waits. Origami letters and garter belts. Etc. I have a good subconscious. I want to say it again for the record: perfect.
Logically [remember when I used this phrase all the time; "logically and all that"?] I know there have been for sure a lot more appealing-looking people in the world but when I think about it, a young Tom Waits is the most beautiful person I could ever think up, you know how that goes? uh huh.
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[Thursday, June 5th, 2008
@ 09:15am
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[Thursday, June 5th, 2008
@ 04:03am
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My bad rib is not letting me sleep tonight [or dance around to Tom Waits which is plan B]. I am exhausted all the time.
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on selfishness, part one [Monday, June 2nd, 2008
@ 09:01am
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start sentences with i remember end sentences with that's all i think. i hold these things in the palms of my hands, you know, pink and soft and upturned like dahlias but i will not will not ever open them to full capacity, to over-flow, to capacious bursting, to dribbling and trickling; i have these things to tell you but they never quite make it. down out in, away.

[Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
@ 08:04am
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[Monday, May 26th, 2008
@ 03:43am
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Apparently I still do those really embarrassingly remedial things when I have quote-writer's block-quote. Or whatever. workspace )
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[Monday, May 26th, 2008
@ 01:23am
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So since this journal is apparently me just rambiling about how creepy my dreams are recently, let me also mention the influx of PREGNANCY DREAMS. Is this a you're-almost-20-and-not-on-birth-control thing or a biological-clock kind of thing or a you're-just-a-nutjob kind of thing, or. What the fuck.

myself: I just had this dream that the zombies had totally taken over and people were kind of endangered like polar bears, living on this smallish island where we were all hunter and gatherer types, on this island of nothing but huts and stores with eggs and stuff, everyone was walking around with cloth sacks on their backs holding stuff, and I was pregnant. With this, like, you don't know him, this military type guy who was in charge of killing the zombies, with his kid--
my mom: wait, what?
myself: No, forget that part, hold on. And we were trekking up a really long hill of small huts and finally we got to your hut-
my mom: why was I in a hut?
myself: Because of the zombie apocolypse, mom. Anyway. And I told you that I was pregnant, and I was really scared, because except for the zombie thing my life was the exact same as it is now. So I totally wasn't into having a baby, right, I was freaking the hell out. And then I said, so mom what should I do, will I be okay? And you said, "well, honey, you're good with animals."
my mom: that's it?
myself: THAT is it, yes.
my mom: at least I was practical.

[redacted: the part where she asked if her grandbaby would be blonde or not. How the fucking fuck would I know!]
[yes, probably.]
[shut up, mikey.]
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[Saturday, May 24th, 2008
@ 22:15pm
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what about "kinda cute, kinda hot, kinda sexy, hysterically funny but not funny looking guy who you could fuck" did you not understand?
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[Friday, May 23rd, 2008
@ 02:50am
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They call me up if they need a lie detector. Hold on a second, listen to this fucking shit right now, rustling of white-noise, the other one going on and on from far away and then closer, their hands passing the phone back and forth. Okay so what do you think, is he lying to me, if he's lying to me I'm going to kick his ass, [I'm not lying to you, it's all true, swear to god] What are you doing swearing to god for? What does that have to do with anything? I say, I have no idea if he's lying, you should know better than me, right, that's how this works. No, he only knows how to lie to me, he's shit at lying to anyone else. Oh, of course. So why don't you ask someone on the street. Somone on the street wouldn't Understand the Importance of This. Oh. [Now he's lying, I'm a great liar, I can fool anyone.] See, see what I mean, look what he just said, I got him to admit to lying. Great, I say, problem solved. So you agree he was lying? No. I think he's telling the truth. You said you didn't know! I lied.
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non, mesi [Monday, May 19th, 2008
@ 02:49am
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five blackwidows hiding in the garden in two days and my dreams have been in a different language since wednesday night, um.
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[Saturday, May 17th, 2008
@ 23:13pm
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inebriated. called j + m to sing bill withers songs with them but got too sad and just hung up. going to watch that autopsy show until i pass out or something. pathetic.
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[Sunday, May 11th, 2008
@ 20:50pm
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Yesterday at the book store I got in an argument with a total stranger. I was right, for the record. Paraphilia is absolutely the accurate word to describe what USED to be just generally "sexual deviance". It's seriously not 1974 anymore, people, wake up, dust off that B- you got in psych 101, yeah? I AM SMARTER THAN EVERYONE. [but not really] [but in this aspect, yes.]
What an awkward conversation to have in public though.
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[Friday, May 9th, 2008
@ 14:57pm
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Dear Tylor,
I had a dream that you were on trial and I was part of a team of defense lawyers for you, this weird lanky team of girls in really tall shoes and tight skirtsuits and then this one guy in some pinstripe suit and a red tie with one of those mustaches that we always used to laugh at? The satan-ones? The day before the beginning of the trial I had to buy the clothes for you, to make you look presentable, the way defense lawyers do. And the other girls made me do it because of our history. When usually it's a team effort, those bitches. And I only had fifty dollars, to buy like, weeks worth of suits for you. So I put it on a credit card instead. And when I brought the clothes up to you, in the little conference room of the prison, where you had four armed guards around you and two sets of cuffs on your hands going to that thing on your belt, and I had to take off all the blue-canvas stuff with your prison number on it and all the guards were staring, watching me dress you up like a doll? But all the suits fit really well and together we put them in order, made sure there wasn't any red or anything to shock anyone to remembering what you did, and your lipring was already gone because, uh, jail, and we did your hair so you looked about ten years younger. We talked about body language, about how you should try not to be so fucking tall [maybe that's why, the shoes? to make you look small? haha.] by slouching and everything, how you shouldn't zone out and just glare at people because it would be creepy. How to close your hands on your lap and sit calmly. There was this awkward moment of a hug when all the guards cocked their guns in that movie-noise of machinery clicking on. But in general everything was good and you didn't try to grope me or murder me or anything, you looked very presentable, and we obviously were very capable lanky lawyer women who didn't feel conflicted about defending this mass-murderer, obviously we were doing pretty well. But then you ruined it all because when the bailiff let you in on the first day of trial you were wearing YELLOW CONTACTS and you had just EATEN A POMEGRANATE.

So everyone was freaked the fuck out by you and then I woke up so annoyed at you, WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM.
-phoebe.


[edit] ps. Yes, yes, I know how much you hate pomegranates. [loathe?] But you didn't so much eat this one as maybe cut into it and smear the juicy red pulp all over your beautiful boyish recently-shaven face. Just to be an asshole. And yeah, I would look amazing in a pinstripe skirtsuit and pumps. Obviously. The familiar-sounding part is familiar. [and in a legal document! preserved for all of history!] I can be subtle too, see.

pps. MANACLES. Also, no. But then also, yes, a little.
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[Thursday, May 1st, 2008
@ 15:22pm
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photoshop-fu )
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[Saturday, April 26th, 2008
@ 09:00am
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Life Goal 9920475: these goddamn shoes. :(
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[Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
@ 06:26am
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Apparently after a day of fever-napping, midol*-popping, and sludge-that-tastes-like-liquorish-schnapps-downing, I called my mom at school to ask her to please ask baby jesus ["you said hey-zeus, though"] to bring home eight AA batteries because A GHOST drained the batteries for my speakers.



*yes, my life is like THAT.
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[Sunday, April 20th, 2008
@ 04:46am
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Oh, bleh. I have either MONO [...] or STREP THROAT. I am FUCKING MISERABLE. I've regressed to the point where I'm expecting John Crichton to keep me company but he's, oh, well he's in space, which I can deal with, and we've officially arrived at CRAZYTOWN. Which I don't mind so much, you know, everyone should talk to the aliens in their heads and we're not all cool enough to wear Hawaiian shirts while doing so, but, like, I really want to cut my throat out. I was going to say: I want someone to bring me soup! But no no I don't. FUCKING MISERABLE. SOS.
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[Thursday, April 17th, 2008
@ 06:30am
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Says the girl to someone she once loved a lot, like totally way majorly a lot, if we both live to be old, to get old and then, of course, sequentially, be old, and you gain fifty pounds, seventy, hell! hell even a hundred, if you gain the weight of me when you met me, when we met like, hey hello how are you, and you have to wear pants with elastic in the waist, you have to wear them above the abnormal bursting ball of your stomach and you are always hungry, buying tv dinners in bulk, avoiding the eyes of strangers like they're the enemy, you, lonely with missing hair, miserable and stuffing your face, if you leave the fiberglass ultraviolet florescent light of your meager house and come out into the street for nachos or something and by chance I'm getting a burrito, old too, so old, having gotten old and am now trying to just be old, if I see you at any point, like this, or like any other way, I will recognize you because of your stupid bugs bunny tattoo.
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[Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
@ 01:31am
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visited tim's father's grave today. it is small and humble but clean, baby grass all around. he paid more attention to me, my superstitions and my silence. ['phoebe i don't know if i've ever seen you submissive before'] i didn't like it, little spotlight on my back out-of-place, but i let it slide. the sky was gray and low, everyone at work or driving by the gate's border, low riders and white t-shirts.
to leave he took the short way and i sighed, tip-toed and weaved around, got to his car much later. the same car he used to have. he touched my neck with clammy hands and tugged at my hair, said a jumble of things; when did you grow up so much, why is this so long now, are you okay now, why are you still so beautiful, what the fuck is going on, what about your father, huh. said like an angry man, a man-man, a much older man, like, well, you know. all at once like the my respectful silence was contagious but the second the headstones were behind my back and our feet were on cement he couldn't stop himself. i felt simultaneously too-old and too-young at the same time, a feeling i'm getting used to having all the time, told him to shut up, get in the car. kissed the top of his head, pretending that's a thing i'd do, thinking about what we would look like from some other vantage-point, another feeling i'm getting used to: that any moment of my life can be picked up, a tiny independent piece, a singular frame all alone, and be examined, that it'll tell this whole story that has absolutely nothing to do with the person i think i am. lies and fragments, but really any five seconds is all it takes, that's all it takes for me to learn everything i need to know about someone else, why shouldn't i think that way about myself? i think, this is not who you really are, this is just a fluke, but that's not true at all, is it. that's exactly what i am. a series of unconnected unreal actions, events, movements that can't be explained away, can't be justified.
[this is a selfish thought, to be having.]
[he can't look at the stone and the grass and the words, i can't think about the actual, you know, the d word, (oh, haha, both d words, huh!) even with everything that's happened lately, i can't think of it as a real physical thing, i can think about ramifications and psyches and ripple effects.]
[just so you know. i'm judgmental of everyone else,
but i'm not oblivious to myself.]
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[Sunday, April 6th, 2008
@ 23:57pm
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I am one-forth drunk and three-fourths acting, he's on the phone so it's like he's not real either, he asks, -do you separate us?, and even though I hear it and know what it means I decide to take it the wrong way, left not right, and I say, what do you mean, I could never be the thing to separate you, he laughs and says, boy-oh-boy you are D R U N K, and I think about slamming my wrist against the doorhandle but then remember I wouldn't feel it, so I laugh, but then the laugh turns into a mutiny of laughs, an unstoppable coup of guffawing, and he joins in with me but stops first, stops and says, um, are you laughing right now or crying?
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[Friday, April 4th, 2008
@ 23:36pm
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I need to stop falling asleep on peoples' roofs.
[unless I want to fall off]
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[tophats (cont)] [Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
@ 03:55am
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that's what a funeral procession looks like, he says. the house nextdoor is filled with platters of food in fancy color-coded designs. the block is filled with cars and people come out of them in black, except the kids who wear bright colors and spend hours playing in the pool. [we didn't know what to say but we offered the driveway, we're not using it, please feel free. if there's anything you need. we are genuine but clueless, really.]
i feel defiant and cold, my skin too hard in the air, i say, i've seen a funeral procession before, this isn't what they look like.
he laughs at me, i want to say not unkind, but there's this echo and that feels unkind. it's different everywhere, he says. don't pretend like you remember.
i remember. i completely remember. i remember exactly what i wore.
black, he says, that's not-
this black flowered dress that was way too small because i had a growth spurt, and i had to wear shorts under it, so it wouldn't be, uh.
indecent, he offers.
yeah whatever.
it's different everywhere, he repeats. look at their faces.
i don't want to, i say, don't tell me to do that. it's a weird feeling, being chastised and dared without being spoken-down to, with something sort of patriarchal hanging in the air, with all this little hidden history and the myth of time, you know, the way i really have nothing to say, in this shadow. in this shadow of.
no one is making you, he says. but you can tell me. is that feeling gone?
voice quiet and from a conspirator. what about that laugh everyone talks about, right? what about that, i haven't heard it yet.
i say, no.
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[Sunday, March 30th, 2008
@ 20:54pm
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On my TV there’s this woman in one of those vests, those ones that are textured and knitted, little hearts all over it, I was watching a program about angels [are they good! Are they evil!] but apparently I’m not, now, if my lip-reading is any good [which it is for some mouths and really isn’t for most] she’s talking about armor and swords and crucification. Earlier when I closed my eyes I thought about this park I used to go to in 7th grade maybe; I had two friends who lived a few blocks away from each other and this park was kind of central to them but we had to go through a strange housing development, I think it was condominiums, small and repeating, the street was all crowded-in and hidden behind some vines and the street had speedbumps and the curbs were those special curbs that don’t drop but instead will slope, everything was really winding and turning, snake-like, and then there was a basketball court and some swings. We didn’t belong there, but both friends took me there independently, these two friends of mine who didn’t know each other. I haven’t thought of that place since I’ve been there but now it’s fresh in my mind. I live close by now, I should go and see if I can find it. Nothing is ever worth the weight I give it. The boys think if they talk to me exclusively through text messages I won’t be able to tell which is which, but they’re wrong. I want you to put your hand over my face until I see stars. When I was a kid I took the bread-crumb thing a little too far and even left notes on trees or in the ground or on walls or wherever, directions for made-up or slightly circumstantial people to come find me if they ever strayed away; is it sadder to think no one ever found them, or that someone found them but didn't think it was meant for them? Nine, no eight, because one died, and six, tomato plants are probably way too many, alas. Black ones and yellow ones and small ones and big juicy two-pound ones. Possibly. Last night we saw a girl with legs and hair like yours but when I talked to her she was an idiot so we left her alone. I should buy some clay. [Does this part seem like a ridiculous thing to say: ] I want to do something with my hands that has no horrible ramifications. [yes.] When people take [borrow?] certain things from me on soulseek sometimes I am a little befuddled as to WHY, but then also shouldn’t I be more curious about why I had those strange things there in the first place? Curiouser and curiouser.

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.

“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”

“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.

“You must be,” said the cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
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[Thursday, March 20th, 2008
@ 05:41am
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j: i think it's the most beautiful thing you've written
j: possibly ever!
p: UM.
j: seriously.
p: like...
p: um.
p: :x
p: it's four paragraphs
j: Yes!
p: and none of it is technically mine
j: yes!
p: and I wrote it in about ten minutes
j: yes!
p: and I think only mythology nerds will understand it
p: ...and I don't even want to think of who else.
j: yes!
p: and there's projectile vomiting.
j: yes exactly. erotic mythological vomiting.
j: it's the most perfect thing you've ever done
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of mortality, part one [Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
@ 02:18am
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I have a stupid thought: we are so hungry. if you left us alone soon enough there would be nothing left.

[Friday, March 7th, 2008
@ 14:31pm
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sits next to me on an iron fence, i'm barefoot and in white, like i'm seven again, at my first official recital, that old white house with squeaky wooden floors and oak trees and a graveyard behind it. [me being the only ballerina-wannabe brave enough to explore there, you can have my granola bar if you run over there and back without getting scared. okay, no problem. ripping my tights on a stranger's tombstone.] tophat left on the filagree, the spear of a flour de lis [my stupid, stupid literal brain, filing and sorting], skin and glow-bone hand on my knee like a question, like i'm gonna give an answer, like i can ever answer anything straight.
they're all around you, he says. whats it going to take to get you to listen.
i have no idea. i'm listening, really, i just don't-
push my back out and fall down, let my legs catch on the slope, hang my arms down so all the blood rushes to my head at once, stupid long hair touching the ground, almost, vertigo like waves in my ears. [monkey-bars and monkey-jokes, out-twirling any girl on any playground, hands coppery and filthy all day like a battle wound, like everything i've ever done well is just a step toward some prize, some proof.]
-you never did, he says. you pay attention to them but you think you're-
i say, immune.
he says, good word. [i'm always offering up good words. at the library on saturday i helped a little lady describe the slippery books who kept sliding out of their shelf. they're escaping, i offered. and she said, why yes! of course. good word.]
untouchable, also. irrelevant.
i don't know about that, he says. but untouchable for sure. nobody's asking you to take it seriously. all'a the merde in front'a your pretty face, crows and bettles and broken dishes.
you, i say. also.
he lights matches one-by-one like lightning.
you ain't un-touchable, he says. [and i want to say, yeah so prove it. but i don't.]
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[Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
@ 09:45am
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I feel like something else bad is going to happen.
No, really.
No I know what you're thinking
but really.
Been waiting for it to go away but it gets worse instead.
! I wanted to say "petty dread" but I don't want to be pseudo cutesy.

[this next thing really is unrelated to that]
I do not at all like the smell of rum but I am happy to smell like it [FOR NOW] because it was for Legba and not for me at all.

Except I guess in that simple way any act of any kind of devotion is more therapeutic than we'd like to imagine, and I understand this is a fraction of what they say when they describe the difference re: sacrafice, offering. I want to be a girl that gives, you know, not all the time. But when it's right.
? how simple, right, how fucking stupid, that's what everybody wants.
That and reciprocation.


Fuck, I talk about things and just belittle them.
Why can't I just live through things
why do I always have to fucking explain them.
ugh, phoebe, you fuck.

cryptic notes to myself:
crow,
kali,
green glass,
flashlight,
porn folder,
background checks,
chopsticks [bed bath and beyond],
a mirror.
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[Saturday, February 9th, 2008
@ 03:26am
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p: I had to stop writing it
p: for a few days
j: why?
p: like.
p: I forgot what the five senses were.
p: and I didn't want to look it up
p: I told myself I'd remember, so I'd feel smarter at least, and then the longer it took me to remember, the dumber i felt.
j: you aren't dumb phee
j: your superpowers just make it harder to remember what it's like for the rest of us.
j: it's not called the SIXTH SENSE for nothing
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[Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
@ 03:20am
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I just watched SLC Punk and feel so literally-lonely that it's actually more of a physical pain than a petty emotion. It'll go away though.
Here are some things I've scribbled on spare paper and stuffed in a notebook,
they're sorta recent, kind of, maybe, at least from '07, I don't remember most of it.

// -- out in a wide-vast dry desert or a crowded-sprinkled dewey jungle, clothing to match. buzzed heads. helmets in the crooks of their elbows. usually there are two, and they kiss, and nothing happens. etc, etc, nothing blows up and nobody stands at attention. does it count as intrusion if it's all fabricated, etc. //

//-- hombre [mujer] que debe su exito a sus propios esfuerzos. //

// -- is 'soft flare of imperfection' a flowery, corny thing to say? yes. i don't like any form of, [scribble], no matter what. flare sounds really dirty. ???//

// no one's really going to hug you and be your friend suddenly. a few weird kids might ask you odd questions like, what were they wearing when they died? or when did you last talk to them, what did you say? and some kids, the biggest majority, will ask you, quite simply [and often] [and without much variation]; hey man did you - pause - do it on purpose? usually they'll say it again but steadier, did you do it on purpose. //

// -- was in the middle of telling me about the house, saying it was shaped like an L, but the other one cuffed his neck and forced his big shoulders between us and said, no it wasn't. a conversation about big-l's and little-l's. he says it was an i. //

// one million empty hearts, sign your name on the dotted line. //

// -- do contact lenses really kill rainforests? //

// YOUR BEARD MAKES YOU LOOK GERMAN
???? //

// hairy legs of tarantulas
and sprouting teenage boys
the white of waves
anywhere in the ocean

!
and of course of eyes

---- good thing i don't write poetry. [scribbles] //

// found shaving cream in a diner bathroom. the creme vs cream debate continues. //

// options:
erasing, enfolding, covering?, removing, disassembling, splicing-open? //

// - the wingled-boy has light blue eyes and skin the color of sand. he has white teeth, they shine and flicker when i help him find the right page in his used textbook. we partner up for the next oral presentation and the boy without a mouth glares at me like he's offended. -- // *

// - a warm june when Pancake is seven will be the first time his classmates try to trick him into eating with them at IHOP. he won't cry, will hardly be bothered, he won't tell her. he's gonna consider it a glitch until he's ninenteen and in therapy. // **

// -- wants me to know he doesn't use THAT WORD but yes he does. why does everyone want to take back what they've already said. it's a good word. not the best, but it's pretty good. it does the job.

note: two days later,
he said it again, twice.
he says it still doesn't count.
"I also sometimes call myself Daddy, and we pretend like that doesn't exist."
which is a valid point. //

// -- wanted to say, wanted to say here's what i'm thinking; i'm thinking of wanting, of wanting to reach over and touch you because you look soft and damp, but if i move the sun will be in my eyeline, which will be painful, oh and also everything else is going to come crumbling down, but that's metaphorical, and possibly not true at all, like maybe you like being touched, i don't know, but i can't really risk it, i can't, i don't i won't, and it's so fucking hot, and so. conversations about mick jagger, etc. //

// found a red bucket in the woods. am reminded of a movie. for sure. but which?
they dared me to touch it.
should i not have touched it? //



* oh this was a good story, aw. I should do something with this.

** this one too. but with red pens.
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hello my cowboy this entry is for you [Monday, January 28th, 2008
@ 01:50am
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It's a bad sign when you dream about red hands, right? Or no? At the bridal shower I told my aunt to bring Julian along next time so I won't be the youngest anymore, and she said yes I would but he wouldn't wear a dress, and I was quiet for awhile, us in our overly-serious-but-joking bubble, and then I said, he'll wear a dress if you tell him it's a cape. But he's over batman now, he's tired of the pointy-eared dog he named batman, he's into starwars now. So, a robe! I don't know what happened that made me like the kid now. I guess because he thinks I'm awesome. I'm easy like that. We ban together and roll our eyes at the adults behind their backs. I almost feel bad for not liking him so much, but then I think about him trying to barbeque little dogs, and I don't know how I feel. But then I think about how he fell asleep on my arm that one time and drooled all over me, and, aw. Watching a biography about natalie wood. Who told me she died three years after James Dean? somebody told me that once and I believed it for a long time. 81. Okay, remember. I look at her as old as she got and wonder if I'll age like that at all? but no. the older I get the less I look like her. So yeah, sudden sympathy for little kids, what's up with that? I know what's up with that, though. Whatever. Remind me to never befriend orphans again. "befriend", yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. Adults who are still little kids, yeah yeah yeah. One day I'll write an entire book about them and then this won't feel like such a, --- a, what does this feel like, it feels like getting attached to someone who's already attached to someone else, like I'm nothing but empty and wanton, like I'm one of those lame people who hangs out around area 51 with hand-printed pamphlets. ??? That metaphor did make sense in my head. Go from sex to aliens, okay. I should write that down, give it to the smart one. You Guys: me :: Area 51: Weirdos With Mullets. Boy likes tests. Button-downs and dirty jeans. I want to bite the fuck out of someone's neck? I really wish I would have made a wish on that maybe-falling star, maybe-falling-plane. I guess I made one but it was too late, it was already gone. Wishes are important. That doesn't even sound like something I'd say. Earlier when I said wish-for-a-wish, I wasn't trying to be cute or funny or anything, I was really being that dumb. I want a baby fox.
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[Saturday, December 29th, 2007
@ 21:11pm
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Thoughts on dreams. Fever dreams are the only ones I can't really control. I think, what's that word for it, for things that-- you know, if something is idle for so long, one it's finally free it's that much stronger? Well whatever that is, that's what it's been like, sleeping this week. A million hands reaching up at me and all these not-completely-right faces, like they skipped a stage on the convayer belt, like there's a giant eraser somewhere that took a little bit of them away for awhile, everybody with something to say to me, and usually I'm so good at blocking it out but not this week. Ash-white hair and too-deep cheekbones [like I could fit the pad of a finger there, like,] and thread-bare dark-ocean blue turtle neck, your fucking pale hands reaching for me. I don't want to be reached for. If I wanted to be reached for I'd have made a spot for you somewhere. I wouldn't have been working on preservation since I was little, you know, when I was little and you were the same, same sad expression, big black net if you come reaching. Anyway, I'm better now so everything's fine. Bring on the new year.
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i know we are not new [Monday, December 17th, 2007
@ 07:12am
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he says, you are just like him, the fucking two of you, all you ever care about are fucking details of everything, like it makes a difference.

like it makes a difference, a half-ending I like, so I write it down and he knuckles the corner of his eye, shuffle of air in the back of his throat.

[have you said that to him? I want to ask. because I know what his reaction would be, I know what he'd say to that, I know how he'd twist it around and get you exasperated, too. but it's just a lot of thinking and no talking at all.]
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[Thursday, November 29th, 2007
@ 22:11pm
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-- let me be vague here, but. Let's say I wished for something very seriously when I was a kid, like I'd free up ten minutes a day and just sit and wish on this one thing, and then I forgot about it once I got older and changed, but then recently, like last night someone said something [vaguely vague!] that triggered my brain and made me realize that this thing I had wished for about ten years ago is suddenly right infront of me if only I would figure it out. If only I still want it, which is, well. Let's just say all that and wow isn't that weird.
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