FRAGILE THINGS

What constitutes an alcoholic? I'll drink until my skin is full, and I will feel untouchable.(lyrics. not mine.)

Question: Do you ever get the feeling that as you age, there are fewer people around whom you actually want to have a conversation with? You get to the point where your IM contact list has expanded beyond your realisation, you find yourself scrolling down the list but drawing nothing out of it... where did all the kindred spirits over the years go? To even have a partner would be so precious and fragile. china in your hands. (if you're thinking of the country.. we're clearly not thinking along the same line..)

What do you *really* think of Justin Timberlake?

pa-papa-pah... who loves the sun... pa-papa-pah...who loves the sun... pa-papa-pah... not everyone....

The concept of "birthday" means so little when it has been superceded... Wherever you are, i hope you have cake. mm everything i say about this now feels so meaningless & hollow.

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the following are excerpts of a reading which, for all of its poetry, has made me want to blog them down to share:

STRANGE
There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sing, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken.
Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again.
Whenever it rains you will think of her.

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SILENCE
[...] and her feet hurt, day in, day out, from the high heels, but she can walk down steps with a forty-pound headdress in high heels, she's walked across a stage with a lion in high heels, she could walk through goddamn Hell in high heels if it came to that.

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