poem #12 to elizabeth i know i’m a liar, and i regret the lying, but some truths cost everything and no matter how much i search, scrounge and scavenge beg steal and borrow, i’ll never find the silver to pay such debts i took 40 pieces for the flamed kissed tatters of my soul. now, [...]
poem #8 and #9 (or making fun of accidental racist)
April 8th, 2013 • by vinh
poem #8 jack and diane jack phan listens to hank williams and johnny cash, drinks evan williams and wishes he could fake a southern accent without sounding like a jackass as a kid, guitar town was always the song he went to when shit got too much, the only thing his deadbeat dad left him, [...]
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poem #5 and #6 and #7 (or vinh being self-involved)
April 5th, 2013 • by vinh
yes, these are all extraordinarily rough drafts. but hey, this is the most artistically productive i’ve been in years, so fuck it. we embrace what we can, when we can, right? also been feeling rather shitty, writing’s always been a way to remind myself that i’m more than my brain chemistry. which i forget, wallowing [...]
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poem #3 and #4 (or vinh being a dick)
April 3rd, 2013 • by vinh
poem #3 depressive brain state wandering biology can we get drunk now? poem #4 this is poetry? imma drop facts like bombs and explode yo’ whole world cause talking about oppression is better than dealing with my depression and see, i’m a poet and i want you to know it so imma rhyme all the [...]
April 2nd, 2013 • by vinh
… yeah i haven’t posted lately. life’s been, uhhh, interesting. ups down and all arounds, roller coaster and drunken spins performed in iowa recently for via-1. had a great time, met loads of beautiful, wonderful people. more about that as i process. oh yeah, follow me on twitter @vinh_hua. i’ll be posting quotes and words [...]
and i’m back
January 14th, 2011 • by vinh
and with a twitter which i use significantly more than i blog here, so go there. i’ve been told i should write more, that it’ll open up my upper faculties, and no matter how difficult that may be, it’s necessary. i agree. it’s strange that i’m so much better at rambling disconsolately when i’m emo [...]
December 3rd, 2010 • by vinh
i think i think too much. following thought strands up and down my brain, trying to make sense of it even as it tries to make sense of the world. how ridiculous doe that sound? everything makes sense, because it doesn’t. ill be jumping around. i’m sorry as a heads up, it’s just where my [...]
November 29th, 2010 • by vinh
my overpriced education has emphasized this difference between modernity and postmodernity. annoyingly so sometimes. and though the differences between are somewhat amorphous and ambiguolus, like the majority of human concepts, there is some critical differences. at its core, the difference between construction and deconstruction. i think the process of growing up, truly growing up, is [...]
another year, another (insert generic funniez)
November 28th, 2010 • by vinh
bloody hell i am inconsistent with this blog. i’m techinically a year older. it’s been more than a month past me birthday. thanksgiving has just passed and i think i may be going slightly crazy. or as my sister likes to say, i already have been crazy for rather a long bit. then again, it [...]
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it doesn’t rain but it pours
September 27th, 2010 • by vinh
i recently popped my rib, so i’ll be out of jits/the gym for the foreseeable future. which should mean i should get some writing done. then again, my computer imploded the same weekend, so that might not be happening. i prefer writing on the computer… mostly because i can’t read my own handwriting. but there’s [...]