Wednesday, September 29, 2010

tomorrow i will go to the funeral of a famous actress

walking backwards,
running and shouting at the top of her lungs...

last night lying in bed my breath released. i don't know how else to describe it. i have had diaphragm spasms since i was a kid...maybe last night was the first time i didn't. there was air in there. space. light, just like my yoga teacher talks about. not holding on, to what, with what? it was in that moment that i realized he was never there and now he's gone.

i'm all over the place tonight.

flash of a mad genius crush i once had. we made a movie about two little children lost in the woods but it was really the two of us found, smoking and talking about metaphysics and sensory deprivation in his fruit-fly infested workshop. accolades and awards and years later, he has a fancy new studio and a nomination for a giant prize...the stakes have increased drastically as has the apparentness (that's not a word) of his insanity and his inability to function as a social creature - a balance of tension (his words) - the line between what it is and what it never was but might have been...

my heart hasn't been in it
and now, yesterday's news
everyone needs their evil twin
i can't have mine so i brought her hers
two little shadows
water sprites, to my surprise

i took this picture last week,
trying to catch the full moon and jupiter lined up perfectly in the night sky
(i had to leave before it was done)
no matter how satisfying
i guess some things are not meant to be had
the trick is to see what you have left,
made special by what you have lost

at least i know he heard me
sorry appeared, and it helps
but it's what he doesn't say that kills me
ironic
it's his voice that stole my heart

the change of season is upon us

i like the idea that maybe this is the bonus round, not a frozen bloom

Sunday, September 19, 2010

board of directors

it doesn't matter how much knowledge and self-respect and power and poetry you have
sometimes when your heart hurts
the only thing to do is go to bed

hopefully the kamikaze kitten will stop launching herself at the mirrored closet doors and i will get some sleep

Saturday, September 18, 2010

voluntary psychosis

i figured it out
the reason i always date alcoholics
is because men only tell me they love me when they're drunk

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

fearless

(my cat, not me)
nevertheless,
i will dream him tonight

Thursday, September 9, 2010

hey midnight

i'm now officially the crazy single old lady who lives alone with her cat

Friday, September 3, 2010

"our love was too intense"

"And in the grand scheme of things, you'll look back years from now and I'll just be a girl you knew in high school."
(my ode to 90210 on this special day)

sometimes it is simply better to keep things to yourself
(like the unintentionally dirty and very juvenile poem about the cocky anthropologist that just popped into my head)

sometimes i am way too clever for my own good

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

weiner

it's only kinda what you think
oh, the things we don't know we're repeating...

he didn't want me to write about him so i wrote to him but
he didn't like that either

break, lest anyone think this is about him
it's never about just one, for any of us

not sure who he really is
never knew
won't ever

think of spinning
think of little blond eyelashes glistening in the sun
close my own eyes and listen to him sing about shadows and light
think of ecstasy written on his face
pray that when it's time to trust the universe again
i'll know

yesterday and today i spent trying to learn to not care
then...
surround myself with allies
and shift

new life attitude, practice, presence
everything like it's the last time
when the bad things happen it might never be again
(that's hope)
and the good parts, well, they disappear too
(one day you're talking to your best friend, next thing you know it's over...how has that even happened to me more than once?)

marked by that ocean sun
now i have a tan and it makes me feel dirty
whatever, i have no pride...and pride is for the wicked, anyway

i will stop falling in love with sociopaths, i will stop falling in love with sociopaths, i will stop falling in love with sociopaths...

it is easier to breathe when you are not holding your breath (amazing, i know)

broken
silence
and dreams of roses...

this is the way the world ends
once upon

Deep, old magic of the dark,
Warrior balance of the light,
Teach that evil lies within,
Never in the day or night.