slip slidin away

Obsequious and oily I look down at the floor and then through my eye lashes ahead of me, through the crowd wondering if I should say out loud what I am thinking. I think not and I don’t. It smells like wet rubber, crushed leaves and stale smoke mingled with cheap perfume and I am [...]

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Like a bad lover

Fall feels like that person you see sitting on the opposite end of the sofa at a party that looks charming and interesting but as they edge closer you notice they have bad teeth and breathe, touch you when they talk and their hands are all clammy and their clothes are dirty and mismatched. You [...]

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Captain Obvious

The car hums along, away from where I was before and the radio refuses to cooperate and play anything I can sing along to that matches the blank and vacuous mood I seem to be in so early this morning. Yakyakyak. Jocks spew on about gossip, sports-hockey strangely enough. No one ever talks about hockey. [...]

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Milk and honey

Being a creature of habit and repetition I tend to read the same books over and over again, listen to the same song over and over again in the car, watch the same movies over and over again, well you get it right? I am tedious.
That being said I think I am at a cross [...]

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Am so glad you were born

….but really sad you are gone. Happy Birthday Mommie Dearest, her nickname for herself, not mine. I love the picture you let me take of you doing your Cousin It imitation, I love that you knew all the names of the flowers, I love that when I asked you how old I had to be [...]

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Impossible

I am reckless and impatient. I am demanding and obstinate. I am quick-tempered and sensitive. I am shy and loud. Mostly I feel undeserving of such love and devotion from these tiny small people I made out of thin air and sex inside my stomach. I abhor a cliche and yet I am one. I [...]

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(insert some sappy-assed witty phrase)

Because there aren’t words to talk about it. Because it sounds stupid and predictable to talk about it. Because I hate all that crap. Because I think its useless. Because it doesn’t help anything. Because nothing actually helps it. Because I said so. Because I don’t have to. Because it’s a choice. Because it doesn’t [...]

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Housewife electrocuted by electric blanket, NEWS at 11…

Epic fail, (snort), blarrggh. sniffle.
Seriously, all that cutesy shit people write make me nuts. Don’t even get me started on emoticons. Its freezing and drafty and boring in my house and while attempting to assemble our wintery electric blankets for a cozy nights sleep the extension cord zapped me twice. And my nose itches and [...]

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I got your lollipops

I wear bad looking clothes,a uniform, of which on prinicpal I have never been fond of. I basically wear pajamas to work and while the constant exaltation of “wow, that is so comfortable…I wish I could wear that instead…” as they turn and walk away in a pair of fab high heeled boots, fancy [...]

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Trouble

For those of you not my friend on facebook… I will share with you a bit of conversation I had with my son over the weekend. Friday was a Professional Development Day for public schools in our city and the day spent at home was a joy for all to behold.
After a million exhalations of [...]

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