Cynicism101

"She said, 'I don't believe in the quality of mercy, and furthermore I don't want your number, I just want your calling card.' And he said, 'You have the innocence of terror, baby.' Written August 2nd..."

"The author apologizes to the reader for delibrately selling herself in the catchy title The author apologizes for energy spent elsewhere The author apologizes for lack of technical structure, the a..."

"Perhaps I don't really believe that truth and beauty deserve capitals and in the infinite shades of poetic feeling. Because, after all, we are living in a binary world, and I am a secondary girl. ..."

"I waste a lot of negative energy because you almost make me want to express myself badly and I give in because it relieves something in the place where there is no imagery, just a fierce concentra..."

"I don't like the image of the heart. And literature is distinct from reality. Written December 13th, 2001 © on Dec 13 2001 09:12 AM PST   18 • 0 • 1"

"There is no such thing as a sad cricket, even in your private zoo. Written December 21st, 2001 © on Dec 21 2001 08:02 AM PST   0 • 10"

"These are hard seas we're sailing on, dear. Crystalline, almost. And I can't sacrifice the comfort of my capitulation while the winds and sea monsters gambol in rhythm and rhyme. Written January 18t..."

"A little training in classical mythology is a dangerous thing. Are we prepared to find a balance or vary between extremes? Are we prepared to negate all our negatives those inhibitions and litter our..."

"Granted: perspective is swayed Granted: we must do the best we can Granted: we all want to live fully and be comforted Granted: we start to think we don't believe we can Granted: the pixels are too s..."

"Before you come to me with love in your eyes, consider selflessness, consider unworthiness, mine and yours. Consider repressing jealously. Consider idealism. Consider idealism, again. This time, liter..."

"I wanted to write a poem for Melissa, but realized I have the soul but not the expression of Leonard Cohen. I wanted to write a song for Melissa, but realized I have the soul but not the expression o..."

"And what is a good metaphor for fear? Seriously. What elegent, eloquent chairs can we force it to sit in? Let's skip the "fear is a box" and "fear is a cage" and believe, for the moment, that we're in..."

"The narrator smiles and starts to think: I wish I could star in, again and again, Something coherent that really makes sense, None of these modernist fractual images. None of these fragments of senten..."

"So, you admit that it's probably the springtime of that dirty back alley of your mind that controls what you like to call primitive mating urges. I love this admission, because it says too much about ..."

"So I suppose that you agree with me that there is probably no justification for anyone's actions. We've all sacrificed someone else's peace of mind; we all realize that's terrible. And for what? For ..."

"You're diffusing into my soul, and whether you're filling me out or filling me up or filling me in I like the weightlessness It's spring again, and even the sensible have some growing to do. Written ..."

"Borne thus in bruised and vanishing pacts, their love instead wraps hopelessly around the liars' catacombs and clichesA poetry.com magnetic poetry contest. Written April 12th, 2002 © on Apr 12 2002 ..."