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"Every time she sang, she died a little. That's how much she gave."
You get points if you can tell me who said that about whom. How many points, you ask? Well, in tangible terms, you get the 2 credits from commenting, I guess; intangibly, well, you get some kind of personal satisfaction … -
my beautiful whirlwind
Sometimes, it is all that I need, to let myself be picked up by it, spun around, and dropped right back on the couch where I began the day melancholy and in the second--no, third--day of back pain. He blew into town yest… -
I thought this week would be easier than this... and hell, it's only just turning Wednesday
Monday, the Man Who Is Away was in an accident. He wasn’t hurt, but it was a serious accident. He was pretty shaken by it, though he had calmed greatly by the time I saw him after work (an almost unheard-of occurrence wi… -
A restlessness and urge to write --
What are you, nagging thing, tugging at the corners of my mind but refusing to show yourself? I had errands planned for this morning, but some strong need to find some calm has me sitting in my living room still. You res… -
You're breaking my heart
I wasn't faking it or trying to be more dramatic when you lit yet another cigarette outside the movie theater before we went in. The disappointment was real. You've been "quitting" for more than two years now, which has … -
It doesn't get to be called a poem, but the thoughts just didn't come out in sentences.
Seems I've been waiting for something beautiful to happen Been biding my time, hoping That the clash and the clang, the resonance Would shake out the impurities leaving a strong metal That could melt to fuse our dreams t… -
If you're boring, and you know it....
March 26: I am boring. (See also: lacklustre.) Some days, I can't seem to bring my emotions to the surface. It hurts me to be this way. It hurts to ask, "Am I boring you?" and to have him answer, "Yes. Because you're … -
Party of One! a few meandering thoughts of a single lady
For the first time since college, I spent a whole year in one place. A little more than a year, actually. Well, now I'm moving a few buildings down, in the same apartment complex. This time, I'll be living alone again. M… -
Things are gonna happen, naturally
When I call late and ask if he's already in bed, he replies yes, but that he's been awake thinking about the speed of light. It's kind of attractive, listening to his tired rambling about the "esoteric" book he's reading… -
...and I'm back.
In some way, I stepped out of the world for three weeks, and yet not at all. I mused a little this afternoon about how foreign my own apartment appeared, though my muscles remembered how to navigate it without requiring …
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