April 2009
“It’s not like I’m a slut
Or that I really like to fuck
I just want...”
– Japanese Gum, HER SPACE HOLIDAY
“FIRST THOUGHT IN THE MORNING,”
– always the first thought.
“I want to write a staggering work of heartbreaking genius.”
– the boy I love
“IT’S JUST A JOB.”
– But it clothes you and feeds you and buys you pretty shoes.
“To him, this was a dirty city in poesis; a poeticized picture of mass culture. I...”
– My boyfriend is a Dean’s Lister
“I’m searching for a singular passion – eccentric vector – to snatch me from my...”
– Mazemapping
“We hammer the doors of silence,
bruising with words we could not speak.
How...”
– We Kept A Jarful Of Keys (Again, from Alunan)
“We shall grow
Continents of silence
Around your name,”
– -Merlie M. Alunan, Rosas de Piedra
(I am for Team Philippine Poetry)
“I’m in love
With the world
Through the eyes
Of a girl
Who’s...”
– Baby, let me be your morning after.
“I think it’s time to clean your car
I’m not home if someone calls...”
–
This is what the song says and this is what we do. I’m looking forward to another picnic in your room.
Here, baby. Have a little E.
“YOU ARE FORBIDDEN TO GET SAD.”
– This, I will remember, darling. I will try, I will try, I will try.
“the way water runs and fills the pail and wails of morning rushing—”
– (must wake up at six a.m. and yet here I still am)
“Because I am in love with a boy who makes me fall in love with everything....”
– (so I will never forget)
“Why are you so pretty?”
– (and I pretended I didn’t hear you)
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