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i'm not too sure how that midterm went. it was one of those all-or-nothing things. i think i did everything ok, but i've already thought of a few errors i made. and those TA's are not generous markers.

oh... i watching "dharma and greg" and the parents just buried a dead moose... and i am reminded of when rek and i were returning home after our hunt for breakfast on new years day, and we witnessed a car run over a squirrel. what made the moment more poignant was that there was nother squirrel on the curb, watching, and it kept looking at the dead one, and it looked confused. that was sad...

tonight we're going to a dinner with max, MINA!!!, helly, dusty, and some artist guy (they're would kill me if they knew i refered to him as "some artist guy).

i sorta feel like digging into mischief's archives, and pulling out some goodies. enjoy:

raping poetry

I was once in grade eleven English,
raping poetry.
I took away its innocence with
a half-dozen bold flicks of my highlighter.
And as I did so I wondered,
"What sort of spineless verse is this,
to lie down, be still, and let me?"
The tragedy is not that I am
heartless or a philistine;
it's the silent poem
that let me do this.

The horror in this world
is not a cold heart, but
a poem
with nothing
to say.


spaSm

i have no tears left to cry,
so i'll spasm instead.
if my eyes can't produce the fluid
needed to articulate properly
what my heart is screaming,
then let my whole body try
even if it means every muscle
and every bone
suddenly convulsing.

no mother can seal my soul,
no priest can absolve it,
no doctor knows to heal the hole
that this week has burned.

no lie nor truth can make it better.

and when even the spasms stop,
and my body is a used and heavy mass,
when i am once more lying helpless
- empty of tears, but more -
don't even try to come close.
you didn't know me in my triumph,
how could you know me in my fall?


viva la planet

viva la planet
upon which all of this
resides,
which not even the most
tantalizing curves of
industrial smoke
nor glorious
plastic contraptions
can make untranscendent,
which cannot be made
unvast nor unfragile
no matter how hard
they try.
viva.