Saturday, May 31, 2008

living on your own


-----living on your own is living--
---breathing on your own is hard.
oxygen tank me.
i look like a hero should look------
so listen fast for your entire life.
leading not following---
---------be courage. eat courage----------

Thursday, May 29, 2008

small cookies

We all think that we have it figured out. But I feel like that is only because we are constantly going from one phase to another, never having a moment to question our direction. More and more I am getting lost these days. And not in a conventional, don't know whether to turn right or stand in utter confusion way, but in much more frightening sense.

Everything is fine. Life is enjoyable. And then I find that there are only a few things in life that make me happy, and I can't get large enough doses of them. It's like having really good cookies, but they're super small, so you feel bad eating a zillion of them at once.

I need some direction. Perhaps northwest?

Monday, May 19, 2008

skinny love

come on skinny love, just last the year.
pour a little salt, we were never here.

i tell my love to wreck it all.
cut out all the ropes and let me fall.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Sister

What the water wants is hurricanes,
and sailboats to ride on its back.
What the water wants is sun kiss,
and land to run into and back.
I have a fish stone burning my elbow,
reminding me to know that I'm glad
that I have a bottle filled with my old teeth.
They fell out like a tear in the bag.
And I have a sister somewhere in Detroit.
She has black hair and small hands.
And I have a kettledrum.
I'll hit the earth with you.
And I will crochet you a hat.
And I have a red kite.
I'll put you right in it.
I'll show you the sky.

-Sufjan Stevens