My heart lies there on the table. A scalpel beside it. Walk to it and pick it up. With surgical precision, insert the scalpel into my heart. Make the incision deep, from top to bottom. Peel the sides back and pin them. Grab the magnifying glass for examination.
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A butterfly lights on a crumbling wall. Waves crash against it, taking with it the... Read More
I'm wide awake and searching, neglecting the task at hand. Choosing instead to waste away the time until it's the wee hours of the morn before I actually start the homework that's due in 2.5 hours.
Still manic. Still too many broken images inside my head.
Pissed off. I called Dave twice to say goodnight to my children. It's after midnight and four hours... Read More
Okay, let's try this again, shall we? Since the past few weeks this has been nothing but a bullshit sticky note, a real entry is in order.
Kids : Frick and Frack are getting so big. *SO* big. I can't believe Sis is almost five. She's so smart. She lives and breathes learning. Her favorite things to watch on TV are educational documentaries. She's... Read More
I just spent the last twenty minutes writing a real honest to god blog instead of a bullshit sticky note update and my hoodie sleeve brushed a button on my laptop and *poof* It's all gone.
I'm sitting here absolutely shell shocked. In a span of five days, three young men from my community died tragic deaths. Tony and Mark were 20. Cody was 19. I remember when Mark was born. I knew Tony and Cody since before they were in kindergarten.
Our community is so small. So very very small. And this makes five Riverdale students since March. Why... Read More