Archive for April, 2007

Warning: may contain nuts

First, a pre­amble. My apo­lo­gies that the fol­low­ing is going to be one of those entries that undoubtedly ends up as noth­ing more than a bit­ter, vitu­per­at­ive, slap my hand to my brow in exas­per­a­tion attack on all things blog and web-related. Some tar­gets, how­ever, are too obvi­ous to res­ist. Indeed, some tar­gets pos­it­ively beg […]

Holy war

I let the angels and dev­ils fight it out. Perched on oppos­ing shoulders, facing each other across the cav­ern of my con­fused and rap­idly evac­u­at­ing mind, they pull the split strands of my hair and pinch my ear­lobes, bite my neck and dig their fin­ger­nails into my flesh. I flinch as they kick me repeatedly […]

Things to do at 4.00am #2

I’m like a child. Enter­tain­ing such a silly and child­ish notion. I don’t want to sleep until it gets dark, until night turns blacker than pitch, because it’s not right. It’s still day­light. It’s not right. Don’t send me to bed without any sup­per, feel­ing scol­ded and hungry and aching for a dream that will […]

While you sleep

All I can do. I shall sit here, barely mov­ing, barely breath­ing, hold­ing your right hand gently between my cool palms, feel­ing the del­ic­ate lines of skin that form above and below the joints of each of your fin­gers. It’s true that I am impa­tient, always impa­tient, and that such impa­tience makes me reck­less, bothersome […]