The most delicious fodder for the idle mind are the irrelevancies in other people’s lives. The errors other people make; these are what gives us the most vicarious of pleasures. Growing wise, at the cost of living life secondhand; with the collateral damage limited to any life other than our own, and safely […]
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Posted in Journal, Music, Transpositions on May 17th, 2007
Your resident philosopher is back.
Where have you been? I feel bereft without your emphatic anonymity. You should see me now; ambivalence clothed in fatigue, left shoulder leaning against a headboard, arms stretched tensely out, palms flat on the edge of the table, fingers, rhythmless, tapping the keyboard, brows furrowed in concentration, my soul […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2007
Am I the same person who rose up early this morning?
When I’m sitting down, engaged in the nature of the passing minutes, or simply composing my soul to catch a thought, am I the same person who fumes at being held at a red light while the old lady who just cut me off at […]
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Posted in Music on May 22nd, 2007
I never knew you, never heard you sing, when you were alive. Now that you are gone, I hear you singing in my sleep.
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