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 and ever […]