it’s a new year. oscar grant is dead. oakland burned. palestine and israel are burning. obama is about to get sworn in. cheery blog post neh? but as people, we take our pieces of hope where can find it, polish them brightly in the night and safeguard them, taking them out to light our ways [...]
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
i feel fat, don’t you think that’s sexy?
I hope everyone had a good thanksgiving. I definitely did, heading home, seeing the family, both immediate and extended. Eating. A lot. Which is one of the best things about coming home, the availability of food. As someone who lives by himself, one of New York’s many lonely, I just don’t have the same availability [...]
Tags: chapbook, hair, jits, thanksgiving
Monday, November 24th, 2008
remiss, a new poem, messages, jits
i’ve been horribly remiss with posting. and for that i’m sorry. things have been hectic and i’ve been running around like a chicken-clown, juggling a hundred balls with me head chopped off. if that’s not one hell of a mixed metaphor i don’t know what is. but i will do better. i have the ability [...]
Tags: jits, poetry, thanksgiving
Monday, October 20th, 2008
update: sweet relief, emo-ey goodness
so… i’ve been a little bit quiet recently, which is bad. it’s not a habit i should be starting. so i wanted to explain why i’ve been so quiet recently. up until this weekend, when i went back to boston to get checked, i had a chance of having cancer. that was obviously a damper [...]