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those fine tattoos of living
Created on 2007-08-08 05:12:43 (#13550864), last updated 2009-03-21
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Basic Info| Name: | awkwardscansion |
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| Birthdate: | 1982-06-06 |
BioI just ended three years of adventuring in New York, and am headed to Boston to get my masters in feelings/writing/art/headshrinking.
I really like this poem:
"I want to erase your footprints
from my walls. Each pillow
is thick with your reasons. Omens
fill the sidewalk below my window: a woman
in a party hat, clinging
to a tin-foil balloon. Shadows
creep slowly across the tar, someone yells, "Stop!"
and I close my eyes. I can't watch
as this town slowly empties, leaving me
strung between bon-voyages, like so many clothes
on a line, the white handkerchief
stuck in my throat. You know the way Jesus
rips open his shirt
to show us his heart, all flaming and thorny,
the way he points to it. I'm afraid
the way I'll miss you will be this obvious.
I have a friend who everyone warns me
is dangerous, he hides
bloody images of Jesus
around my house, for me to find
when I come home; Jesus
behind the cupboard door, Jesus tucked
into the mirror. He wants to save me
but we disagree from what. My version of hell
is someone ripping open his shirt
and saying, Look what I did for you. . ."
.Nick Flynn, "Emptying Town."
Also: I am a Gemini.
I really like this poem:
"I want to erase your footprints
from my walls. Each pillow
is thick with your reasons. Omens
fill the sidewalk below my window: a woman
in a party hat, clinging
to a tin-foil balloon. Shadows
creep slowly across the tar, someone yells, "Stop!"
and I close my eyes. I can't watch
as this town slowly empties, leaving me
strung between bon-voyages, like so many clothes
on a line, the white handkerchief
stuck in my throat. You know the way Jesus
rips open his shirt
to show us his heart, all flaming and thorny,
the way he points to it. I'm afraid
the way I'll miss you will be this obvious.
I have a friend who everyone warns me
is dangerous, he hides
bloody images of Jesus
around my house, for me to find
when I come home; Jesus
behind the cupboard door, Jesus tucked
into the mirror. He wants to save me
but we disagree from what. My version of hell
is someone ripping open his shirt
and saying, Look what I did for you. . ."
.Nick Flynn, "Emptying Town."
Also: I am a Gemini.
ConnectInterests (54):
activism, adrenaline, arts and crafts, awkwardness, bad movies, beaches, being a student, books, brooklyn, brunch, cambridge, chaos, cherry ames, circus freaks, coffee, color schemes, cupcakes, driving, expressive therapies, fall, fiction, folk music, grammar, head shrinking, hutches, impropriety, jewish what-have-you, kitsch, lit mags, napping, new england, new york, not talking about feelings, office supplies, performance, poetry, postcards, public radio, public transit, pushing, queers, really really bad jokes, risk, roller skates, sarcasm, shoes, short stories, theory, tote bags, trauma, vapid celebrity gossip, whims, writing, young adult fiction
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Schools:
Mount Holyoke College - South Hadley, MA (2000 - 2004)Lesley University - Cambridge, MA (2007 - present)
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