out of the blue & into the black
anamnesis
write more, think less.
legless bird
fly all day
wingless lover
just waits

♪♬: led zeppelin : the girl i love she got long black wavy hair

12 : xo
coronary insanity.
i was drinking up and looking through a glass, darkly
weeping i just have to make it through this evening
pulled the curtains i heard them speaking in tongues
about a naive no-one who never tried who was barely more
than a twinkle in his old mans eye but slightly more than
a suicide who met a good listener with perfect words a
closed lipped ventriloquist heart all-a-slur either you
are still with me or you never were either you are still
with me or you never were either you are still with me or

♪♬: love : five string serenade

26 : xo
deciduous.
staring down
in disbelief
on an empty
world/wilting
before my eyes

it will pass
in part/not last

♪♬: sun kil moon : floating

15 : xo
one night on a clifftop a long time ago.
most written last yr, some last night. all deeply personal. to be added to, in time...

esc.
i truly believe[d] we'd stay
together always & burn-
out anonymous & beautiful
like two shooting stars
swallowing up the sky
undercover of daytime

razzorr
i'm torn between nursing a disappearing scar, almost gone. taking a clean sharp razor-blade, making a fresh incision right along the old one.

superglue
-mobile phone
-e-mail
-instant message
-fax machine
-livejournal
-carrier pigeon
-smoke signals

the more ways
we find to
communicate
the lonelier
we become

fornever
after two years & several months

what i remember of
her face & legs could

fill volumes,
what i have forgotten,
graveyards.

Dec 8 1943
we all forget Jim Morrison's birthday - everywhere except Paris, who hasn't moved on and spent the day locked away, soaking in yesterday's bathwater.

optimisto
i was born into the world on a rainy tuesday morning in late october 1981 and i'll die alone, in a dark house in the summer of 2007.

& her shoelaces [for [info]inutilezas]
i'd hire a plane and write "i love you" across the sky in the fluffiest red, but you're always looking at your shoelaces.

stamps
she sends me pieces / of herself / in an envelope / not fingers and hair / but pictures of oceans / found treasure & / her frilly underwear.

tulips [for two lips]
she dribbles a smile, as i watch her tiny feet bickering beneath the covers. sometimes i swear i know exactly what she's dreaming.

writing in the sand
alone
on my small square of beach

squinting, castaway

recalling the curve of your eyelids
each one blinking like the tide

rushing, receding

crash into me
this endless rain was finally slowing and the sky was receiving the colour back into its pallid cheeks, then i heard her song...

pause
he licks her armpits before they kiss. on his lips tastes sweat, reminding her of labouring so long for a love like this.

the hidden
she asks, why write tiny poems and not epics? i tell her, for the same reason you're my fuckbuddy and not my girlfriend.

mystery girl
to the young redhead whose life overlapped mine for a few shared glances this morning, who smiled like tiny suns and was gone.

cigarsucker
i read about Saddam & his alleged weapons of mass-destruction. i long for simpler times, such as Clinton & his weapon of mass-seduction.

23nerds [for [info]23words]
once i dreamt i was [info]boatmusic with no words, an oyster with [info]no_pearls, a [info]heddcold with no pain, an [info]orkid with no petals.

dollface
porcelain dolls hidden deepin disguise, only given away by the greyest angel dust eyes. for lies, pull the chord on her back.

cling-on
when i said goodbye
she screamed
"you barbed wire hearted liar"

this is a normal reaction
remember to never look back, my friend.

girl [in the flesh]
more beautiful than the marriage of sun and rain is the curvature of your neck and shoulders, your skin slips away into itself.

worrywort
she has this lumpy throbbing in her chest, behind her left breast. cancer runs in the family, as does hypochondria and blatant stupidity.

folie á deux
she neglects her piano.

she plays her gameboys
till they run out of batteries,
till she herself is a blank screen.

closure
close er
a glass stuck
to a coaster.

scallywag
bra-less white t-shirt, she was like a ballerina twirling on high heels, her nipples smiling at me.

condenser
i held your hairback while you threw up six dozen failed relationships. she's going to puke on my hush puppies, i thought.

alt. longer version )

♪♬: explosions in the sky | six days at the bottom of the ocean

14 : xo
you idiot kid.
last show ever setlist

keep you apart
deep in my heart
separate from the rest
where i like you the best


...

i only saw you live once that late december. your voice broke with emotion so often. you had to stop midway through a song, unable to continue. i can't imagine how many times you must have sung them, how you put everything into them. you made a joke, faked a smile. hid your eyes. sung another song & on & on, til you couldn't anymore. i'm sorry for you. fond farewell, elliott.

♪♬: elliott smith : going nowhere

4 : xo
resuscitate.
in the air you breathe
a wreath of slow clouds
hang above dead autumn trees
bejewelled eyes of sorrow fall
between the torn pages you
glued with no-one but me

..

feeling like i'm living under sheets, shaking off the sleep.

like a glass to a
wall you only ever
hear with one ear
& i won't speak.

often i'm riding the bus with my trousers riding my hips because i've forgotten my belt again.

♪♬: snowy white : bird of paradise

1 : xo
high expectations, long fall.
today i was walking home, a wreath of slow grey clouds hanging above dying autumn trees. my limbs felt heavy, i found it hard to breathe. a bejewelled drizzle of sorrow fell between the torn pages you glued with no-one but me. i layed down and went to sleep over & over.

i dreamt about once when i was four, i was helping my Nan in her garden. i plucked a thick green leaf and rubbed it between my fingertips, as it broke apart i watched as the juices spilled out onto my tiny hands. “look at this stuff!” i cried, my fingers dripping with the moisture of the aloe vera plant and then Nanny, smiling, said “you’ve made the plant cry”. i remember the wave of guilt and remorse that passed through me at the sound of those words. i scurried inside, murmuring like a heart and numbed my insides with ice-cream.
16 : xo
perfect 10.
three stories, for my train ride:
1| mark richard : the ice at the bottom of the world
2| amy hempel : in the cemetary where al jolson is buried
3| haruki murakami : sputnik sweetheart

six songs, for a headache:
1| portishead : roads
2| elliott smith : angel in the snow
3| don caballero : you drink a lot of coffee for a teenager
4| grandaddy : underneath the weeping willow
5| simon & garfunkel : the only living boy in new york
6| smashing pumpkins : hope

one girl, for a fuck:
1| that girl who winked and said i should get my end away, and all my troubles would fade.
5 : xo
the fallible fuck.
silent and serene
sit and spin
in a room full
of opinions

i never said why
i never said anything
the bus ride home
made my father cry
wednesday playing on his mind

i held him
but all hope
seemed to close up
inside me
like a flower
that would never
again
open

anything for the faintest
trace of a pencil smile
around the lips of my mother

♪♬: jeff buckley : lover, you should've come over

11 : xo
lighten up to darken down.
the ruins of the night behind me. a tide of insomnia washed up over me. impossible solitudes awaking deep within me. the muffled sounds, the shiver of the town skimming lies across the river. in this heat, i feel the kind of cold an only child knows. like you said, we're better off sitting in the dark and i'm holding onto the desultory fragments of a heart.

♪♬: arab strap : i still miss you

12 : xo
abandoned, like an empty glass.
heartache, hand-made
back pockets for rainy days
you and this fragile piece of me
folded up, tucked away
lovers make graves
out of everything

♪♬: wipers : return of the rat

2 : xo
nonce-case.
read my palm, written on my palm in deep red ink. i want you to strip me of everything that gets in the way. no more words to pass between. no more promises to keep. wandering in and out of dislocated days, summer rain needling my face.

♪♬: the thrills : one horse town

and how the rain comes down hard.. that's how i feel inside.
i ordered the cure trilogy dvd today.

memories of last years tour, sitting on the grass on that steamy summer day. wind-chimes and lipstick smiles and firework endings and nothing else matters when the sky is a brilliant splash of colours.





p.s. take a look at my [info]thecure community.
7 : xo
the best place to hide a lie is between two truths.
i was just watching the news and i thought of this cartoon...

I WANT TO BELIEVE

♪♬: antarctica : full crescent crusade

1 : xo
june too soon.
rain-drenched sundays
and hopeless mondays.

this summer is a lickety dog.

sunburnt and cold.
3 : xo
sleeping in yesterday's clothes
that faraway look is
never lost to me and
in me you see

                         outside

it rains and rains
my heart swells like
the walls, around you

♪♬: leaves : epitaph

1 : xo
dancing toward sunlight.
all violets push through concrete to breathe, only to be stepped on, in time.
1 : xo
morning pours the ocean deep, into the hollow of my sleep.
the lover who surgically cut you
leavings anaesthetised with 'fuck you'

irreplaceable
irreconcilable

devilboy, horn-glued
somewhat i'm not

dangerous friends make you feel again
dangerous friends make you feel again
dangerous friends make you feel again?

♪♬: red house painters : cruiser

something salvaged from before..
the purr purr pouts / and sucker punches / and suck him in / hop in / your cheeks are blistering / but the water's not hot / so sink to drown / with dying / forget-you-nots / and uncrackable whips / and self-involved toys / and poppable girls / and sleigh ride boys / and carsick blues / and sleepsick shakes / and heart-carved hate / crescent-shaped scars / and wintry suicides / ornamental stars / raw last goodbyes / forever reappearing / disappearing together / down drown down / in never / we'll fall / from their eyes / into a vast love song / be my final swan song / you wear see-through blue / i'll wear a sunshine smile / you'll meet me by the pier / we'll ebb and flow out / at the end of the rain / beguiling tide / i'll meet you by the pier...

♪♬: terje rypdal : mystery man

relinquishing strings.
wrap around and hold tight as the boy holds onto the strings of a kite, he's launched into a storm and the night.

♪♬: the swans : the golden boy that was swallowed by the sea

1 : xo
frozen orchards of helplessness.
in silent, in decision
hold in, un buttoning

everytime you undress

i feel
i feel
i feel

i feel your loneliness

♪♬: my bloody valentine : you made me realise / honey power

onto the tracks.
love; love is standing on the underground, waiting for that train home. people wince and brace themselves for that warm gust of air as the tube pulls into the platform, it's so easy to be swept away.

♪♬: shostakovich : the tsar and the poet

1 : xo
x'll mark the place.
toe-tag

you and i are
a crime-scene
cordoned off
from view only
friends posing
as experts see
thru sifter the
ruins glazed over
eyes searching for
whys & hows of
what went wrong

♪♬: radiohead : where i end and you begin

3.
for the girl on the train heading nowhere [with the nicotine laced veins]

non-smoking
kiss
heart-tangled
liquorice

...

for the lover made out of toothpicks

i watch you sleep
a chaos of hair
your shadow sketched
against the wall

...

for carly

shattered
indecisive
tiny glass
feet dancing
up, upon the seat

♪♬: phaser : life and illusion

2 : xo
when i said / i..
..never knew you / what i meant was / i regret knowing you / and there will be / many more wasted days / to regret my own / imperfect ways

♪♬: elliott smith : jealous guy (john lennon cover)

anhedonic.
nose to nose until eyes close, too slow, too late and deep blue dive and a numbness too numb to try. eyes that won't dry, wet painted smile and i can't stop feeling the tackiness, can't stop pegging my hope on a washing line, along with a pair of bum-ripped jeans and her lucky black underwear. i'm playing hang-man, hanging myself out every time.
once only and once again.
let's lose
we've lost touch
don't touch
dig a hole
deep enough
bury my words
bury your head
bury the shovel
you dug the hole with

♪♬: interpol : stella was a diver and she is always down

first [info]kiss.
front cover.


  • polish suicide doll [1920]

    instructions:
    -wind it up for a week
    -it gradually winds down
    -kills itself next month

  • a felix the cat, tab of acid.

  • i forget what the other tab was, sorry.
  • ♪♬: slint : glenn

    1 : xo
    webcam

    shh
    if i should never find you in this life, let me feel the lack, once glance from your eyes and my life will be yours.
    trustno1