night terror

cancer grew in her frail body
and i ate the cob like a greedy child
a painful crunch on my fallen K-9
my hand clenched hard to keep it safe
walking around lost and panicked

yanked from my roots
and before I knew it
i wandered with an empty crimson hand

stop shaking me!

stop this wretched twist you do at my wrist
the pull
the push
the spiral rabbit hole i fall
climb then claw
back on my mountain top again
now pull me back down
why dont you!
why dont you!?

push me

tinge of devil

i could wrap you in my cloak
but i swing it in fury
dance it at your lips
at the very fingers you reach from

circling your words with yours again

let us share what we both know
i am no pot of gold
we can say it out loud...

we expect failure and nothing more

lovely ladies will avenge my sorrows

September





October





All i need now is Miss. Brandi Carlile in November ;)

drum drama dram dumb

there is that drum again... pecking at my peg-legged drumstick. carrying on about its latest bass encounter. my feet seem to catch that proper beat.

AND

a nod of my head, i float to its vibration and get caught in drum drama. pitter patter, my heart goes thump. filling me with drams for easy feet and open legs. lets get going drummer boy in your dark chocolate skin.

be my dumb for tonight and i'll be your no-drama.

c'mon.. fishy fishy

I want to be the small fish

take this authority away from me

bind me and grapple this  power i have

let me kick and struggle my limbs away

i have the will to be will-less

the conscious to be left unconscious

a temporary defeat

a moment of pure sacrifice

...

you don't have it in you

the very rifle i'd use to kill

you shudder at it

and i stroke its barrel

...

but this fish has been wrong before.

drums, silence this violin

i've looked away from our sunny days
and taken a long walk through thorny trees
my clothes ripped, feet tired, mouth dry
a weak smile up to the moon
it smiles back and offers me a different day

Our coop makes it to sunny state, los angeles city

:) just a cute update on coop adventures

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This "nothing"

I miss the rothko chapel in a time like this. Getting lost in its silent black womb. Suppressing my soul enough to quiet my nerves.

Maybe it was the sunshine that I'd return to that would lift my soul. The green grass and large pecan tree field. Piano's museum gleaming clean..my first love affair with architecture.

This was my stop after the bus ride, but before my nude figure drawing class.



Now I ride the subway straight home. Something's gotta change.

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Call me a hater

Cause I don't mention in passing what I do...

what I do?

I drink

I smile

I love

I create

And I try my best not to grow bitter.



I'm a stripper... Not believable?

Ok

How about...

I'm a social worker?

Oh! That works for you?



Sigh... Hipster boys really need to stop thinking tight extra sagged skinny jeans is "hip".



-end of rant

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Lover's aching feet

I will stand by you through this.. My soft breath and gentle voice will soothe you.



There is a rumor that americans work too hard and don't enjoy life. I think the italians started it. Nonetheless, my lover has lost his way into a cliche.





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A tinge of sour grape

It was obvious she was allowed to dress herself that day. Yellow minnie mouse leggings, pink and white snoopy sneakers, green socks, plaid skirt, pearl necklace, white fur shaw and a red and white bandanna at her head. She accidentally grabbed at my calf when the train jerked, careless that she didn't know me. Naturally, my hand immediately fell to protect her faulty foot-work. She didn't seem to mind, being easily distracted by a burly man sitting down. We both looked at him for a bit. He was nodding off as I felt a cramp shoot through my stomach and the girls mom tugged at her hand for the next exit.

I think it made me wonder why she wasn't mine.

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point of not return

"i have to get my shit together" thought the girl as her heel pressed into her paying customers shoulder. go back to school. get that degree i took this job for.
a swirl and dip into his lap, noticing that the dirty bloke kinda smelled nice.
"ah, he's still sober" she thought.
i really do need to get my shit together.

my other element

as you know i'm madly in love with you
but sometimes i drown in it...joyously
like a bucket of water,
a bucket of your love pours over me
and i bathe in you
with sunkissed drops at my skin

8 years clean

I don't think i've ever really thought about it as a triumph, becoming "clean". Even the word clean is strange to me, as I'm still in a bit of denial that i was ever "dirty" enough. Heroine users go clean. Crack users go clean. Meth users simply aren't using at the moment. Maybe it's because I never used a needle in the entire 3 years.

When we decided to "stop", we did it as any meth addict would do anything...we over thought the process and we spoke about it for days.. we discussed the strategy thoroughly.
We'd previously discussed so many other things this way, none of which we accomplished.

It's hard to come to terms with people praising us on our stopping. I wish I knew what made us stop. i wish i had more to say than "we just made the decision to stop".

milk man anyone?

awakened by the cat's meow i lay in my empty bed
its 8am and he's at eliza's house and I've requested a donut. his voice happy as he comes in. i rustle out of bed to greet him i feel his eyes stare me down in my nudity.
I begin to think about how madly in love i am with our peculiar relationship. Knowing that he's hopped up on a bit of blow. knowing he's mostl likely shared sexual thoughts with my dearest girlfriend. how we mantain ourselves seperate and together.

an hour later we lay panting and all i can think is.

you're so cool
you're so cool
you're so cool

Or maybe my eyes

My memory and wits about time fail me these days. As i look at people on the train and think they must be someone else, someone i know. The girl across from me, Krista. Of course its not really her. It's been 5 years and she looks younger than I remember. But at second glance, it might be as I watch her eyes scan the NYC tourist map. I ponder calling out to her. Krista?
Can't be her. She would be about 40 now and this girl isn't even in her 30s. Time sure has played a mental trick on me today.

i promise

i will treat myself better

written for the first time.

old stone..

looking at him with weeping eyes "ill help you jump!"
as her own body fell beneath her own feet.. through the concrete into the cold air between water and stone.
her voice seemed tot carry only but an inch
her eyes and body not paid wage to
and alone her hand slipped his
he stood stoic with a smile
that bared no resemblence to hers.

let's do this!

hoot!

2010

with my hair in rollers, a bride-to-be at my side, and a ghost looming over me.
That's how it began.
it continued with careful footsteps
that escalated to a flutter by the spring
and danced furiously in the summers heat
my sunshine was too bright for our fall
and the winter blues never came.

Happy new year to all..
(heart) teamlove

looking back

i started sharing my thought online four years ago. first it was a "journal" then the blog. it was simply a way to write again. I'd stopped writing in my paper journals and thought it might be easier via blog/typing. Four years ago today i wrote this via Journal Home:

12/6/2006 - all down hill
well finished the most relevant final of the semester....STUDIO JURY.

this is where students present work to a panel of architects and they tell what you did right/wrong.

so after not sleeping for three nights, i present, and a big shot architect tells me my design represented mush. mush in the sense that i could not make a desicion on what i wantd my architecture to be. the other two jurors liked my desicions but said the project lacked conviction. so this was not a good jury, to say the least. very bad actually.

the problem: i was too aware of what other students were doing all semester and not allowing myslef to become my own architect. i am talented, i was 1/15 people accepted to this institute, so why the hell did i sell myself short?

common of me to do this, but usually i analyze and repair, so next semester i will enter with conviction!

nice to know in two semsters i will have a masters, i would have never thought.

its been a long time

..since i posted that song.
since the dent on my couch was made
since i pushed two keys for rewind

every intimate listen.
evey close aqcuaintance,
...i give it thanks
i give it my growth, my heart, my love

i give it every knowledge
every thought i knew
cause until it
it seems i knew nothing.

my ballerina's cave

my hand rested on her knee at a Bedford cafe
and we felt embraced by Silence
through the awkward moments and strange discomforts
the year had given us our love
"there are only a few people i share this dreary with" she said

realizing that we were in this together

get into my head please.
pull these thoughts out!
buy them steal them use them sell them
fucking take them!!
they make crazy
i lose myself

i...

blank.

simple words from a simple girl

I've always thought my writing was "simple". I never use big words and I'd like to believe my sentences are usually coherent (enough).

The winner of this years "The Bad Writing Contest" was...

"Judith Butler, a Guggenheim Fellowship-winning professor of rhetoric and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley, admired as perhaps “one of the ten smartest people on the planet,” wrote the sentence that captured the contest’s first prize."

The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.

WHAT!?!?!

..continued,

and as my fingers trailed my belly's skin my eyes lightly fluttered open and the lips of my husband pressed at mine. and a long smile crept over my face in relief. He was still here. Making dinner as a matter of fact.

A few things...

I've learned about myslef as of late.
1. I'm overly self concious of annoying someone in random conversation. I tend to speak about random things in a story-like fashion, but without a climax or punchline ending.

2. I don't do things for myself. I've been meaning to: get a massage, go relax at the russian bathouse, take a yoga class and finally of course a live model drawing class. I need to make a list of these. Priorities are a bit these days.

3. Grey hair. I have them now. A bit superficial, but they are a bit depressing. :)

4. I'm awesome. This may seem self consumed but for a person that has thought as herself as average, "nothing special", and "a dime a dozen" , its a big step for me in self "love". Not to be mis-communicated as a lack of confidence. This is a realization that I am who I am becuase of me, not because of luck or the people I surround myself with. I've made some of this, i've made some of "me" happen and I'm happy for the signs that have shown me this.

5. And bartendars seem to enjoy my conversation on slow wednesday nights.

Cheers

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all is worth keeping

The idea of being abandoned is not a pleasant one. It's enough to make a kind person call the friends they cherish, hug the people they love, and pour their hearts out to the few they wouldnt be able to live without.
It can make a selfish person do the same.
Our office has been working on a secret project for an abandoned subway station. In the meantime I am enjoying the architectural and social moments of being deserted with an embrace.

..continued (short thought)

The goal tonight was a small one. Wash one load of dishes and one load of laundry within the first hour of arrriving home. With the habitual act of turning the key to my gate and the key to my front door,  the warmth of my home embraced me. Immediately thereafter, came the shedding process. The thoughts of washing dishes and doing laundry tossed to the floor with the very clothes I wore. The office work, the deadlines, the cold aura surrounding me left in a trail behind my naked body. ...