oh_me_ghost

when they came back home
from 25 years
inside a hollow bowl

they talked about

the impulse
of the soul
to be alive and well
in some dreamed up place

they talked about

the newly normal
sense of the completely preferrable
weirdness of the world

And if you weary
of the pain,
the pain will weary of you too

And if you weary
of the days,
the days will weary of you too

And if you weary
of a me,
I will weary of you too, yeah

- Floater

in the year 2809, i stumbled upon a
remarkable archaeological find,
the ancient book of laws
which saved our world from the ill effects of pron

i read the now famous phrase from the
original text that all the appropriate people signed.
and every image of a citizen
should not have certain unpleasant
characteristics

tears came
immediately to my eyes,
for i knew that what...
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no matter what the first cause
was, after 4,000 years, the only humans who are
likely to exist are those
who are motivated to have sex.

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the only problem with delusions
is that they tend to go away
and all you remember
is that what you
once thought was
better than an alcoholic
beverage was never really there.

I'm not a pixie. I'm not a paperdoll. I'm not a cartoon. I'm not a chipper cheerful free for all, and I don't light up a room. I'm not the color me happy girl (not miss live and let live) and when they're out for blood, I never give. So just say what you feel and don't be nice. Don't be nice. Don't be nice....
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Everything that keeps me together
is falling apart, I've got
this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over

- Third Planet, by Modest Mouse

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I want to live in the city with no friends or family
Im gonna look out the window of my color tv
I will remember to remember
to forget you forgot me,
Im gonna look out...
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cassandra redux
screaming about various things that are true
and not being listened
to by anyone.

except those
that already know.

9/17/05

Incorporated Earth

I think that business owners are human beings and so they care about people more than might be apparent, its just that the business model comes first, and the kindness part comes after. It's not a surprise. It's barely even interesting. The behavior is rational. Corporations that grow tend to be the corporations that put kindness second. This isn't scandalous. This is...
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i think the justice system is based on
the principle that if people
act reasonably
at all times, nothing bad
should ever happen to them.

the intercom clicks on.....

at ease citizens, as long as you
behave each and every day
like a reasonable sort of man
and think mechanically
like a robot fed by if-then statements,
we will let you alone.

She says to me this:

Why do women - in general
want a constant love
with a single individual?

Why do men - for the most part
seem to prefer a quick and efficient fuck
with any passing tramp?

Does the fact that love
is an evolutionary adaption
make it less important?

Does the fact that adultery
is an evolutionary adaption too
make it less...
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From Persona, by Ingmar Bergman
(A woman talks to her patient who refuses to speak)

Don't you think i understand
the hopeless dream of being,
not seeming, but being
in every waking moment aware, alert.
The tug of war-- what you are
with others [vs] who you really are,
a feeling of vertigo
and a constant hunger
to be finally exposed
to be seen through,...
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she says, there comes a point
when strangers pop in
and out of your life so randomly
that you adapt to the lack of closeness or touch
nobody stays, so you learn to adjust, and you come to prefer
for people to leave just as soon as they came.
hi, you don't say? that's great,
you're amazing, now please go away.