posts tagged "personal"

wait, they don’t love you like i love you.

hehehe, creepy creep photos. 

actually, i wanted the universe to see my wolverine hair, but alas, out of frame. idiot!

okay. so. we were talking about high school the other day, and back in the day, it was so present in my mind, the fact that i’d never had a boyfriend, or that i’d never made-out with someone, and so forth. i used to feel like i had to avoid the subject, or defend my choices to not let people close to me, or admit that few wanted to be that close to me, and if they did, i turned a blind eye. i invented silent stigmatization by my peers in my mind. i highly doubt now if anyone cared at all. now, two years out the other side, i feel almost frivolous. the amount of energy i expended being concerned about that was preposterous. oh sure, i’m still a freak about relationships. largely because the fact remains that i’ve never been in one. i think they’re strange, and marvelous, and foreign. i have trouble envisioning commitment to one person, for an extended period of time, and them wanting the same from me. this probably springs from insecurity, and my own proclivity towards boredom and fantasy (see, the Enneagram definition of a Four). but the “Issue” of it has become smaller and smaller in my mind. of course it’s weird. of course it might run people off. but there’s no reason to fret and terror over it. if it truly upset someone, well that would just be their strange little problem. life has so much to demand of me than attaining a boyfriend, and to what end? “the world is so full of a number of things, i’m sure we should all be as happy as kings,” until the day comes that the universe is like, “cool mia, try this guy on for size.” in which case, we’ll fall on our knees and pray for minimal crazy. everything happens in due course, in due time, with the appropriate efforts and events. i have loved my life immensely. i have come out the other side of some really poopy pitfalls (most recently, see winter quarter). i have been given joy and relish for life back. i’m enjoying every hour of the day, and many of the night. i cannot wait for auditions. 

i’m nervous for summer. i must find a job, this is imperative. but there are ways to occupy time. there are ways to be productive and creative and ritualistic and joyful. 

rant over. a mild rant at that. i’m going to learn the end of hannah’s settle down/my body is a cage mash-up for corpus auditions. then, run the song. then, action viola’s monologue. after i type up a vocal mask. after i finish this coffee. after i take a nap. 

i was momentarily incredibly upset because i missed the may 4th deadline for the crab orchard poetry contest. i’m disappointed in myself, because i confused the deadline with a scholarship deadline and either way wasn’t prioritizing and on top of my stuff. however, i did enter the UC poetry contest on time, and even if i get nothing from that, at least i did that one. lesson learned. moving on. don’t be neglectful when it comes to things of this nature. be on top of your stuff, mia. 

kingdom come.

honey. angel. sweetheart. other euphemisms for remember my name in the morning

i just wish you’d call.

but not you, a variation on you, a transition in the thought of us, a play on the words
you and i
it’s not enough
it’s never enough to ask for things as they are
and don’t dream of them as they were
but as they ought to be
god damn the way the ought to be 
i can’t do what ought to be

i walked home alone tonight

third night in a row

the sound of my sandals slapping the pavement
the sound of my jewelry tapping against itself
you have to wear an awful lot when you’ve got ugly skin
and i ran into boys i love to love and love and pretend to adore
but the truth is

they’ve only just begun to taste the tingle of what’s beyond the pale
pale being the color, not only of her skin, but of your spirit
have some fucking balls, man,
i can’t don’t won’t pretend you’ve got it all figured out
when you can’t even figure the distance between my frontdoor and your
bedroom floor

is this too much for the modern ear?
too much for the contemporary spirit

jesus

jesus christ, who died for my sins and rose again
the rose of sharon for the sake of saving
all us lost souls

god i love you

god i ask you

how did it get to be this bad?

and not my bad, but the bad of the nations of contamination and condemnation and awful spellings of the word salvation

teach us to breath again

it doesn’t have to be this way

i know it doesn’t have to be this way lord

i had the most glorious day filled with sun light and sweat and mild sufferance of wild joy at the sight of a four year old spinning circles just so she could taste the sun

why can’t we just taste the sun?

and burn away the darkest dark of the melancholic lark that won’t sing around the park of souls who want to know if we can sew their sins into a tapestry of light

bring the light

bring the light

bring the light

there’re aren’t candles enough and excuses enough and allowances enough to explain

why the artist sells his fingers in exchange for rings
why the painter sells his eyes in exchange for lenses
why the actors sells his soul in exchange for celerity

 honey. angel. sweetheart. other euphemisms for love me after tonight.

i just wish you’d call

us

out. 

don’t you dare look out your window.

it’s a beautiful girl walking home alone

it’s a silly girl making a fool of herself

who will play the fool?

me, pick me, please, 

i’d like to be first for something. 

it’s a drag on a cigarette that didn’t light the first time

it’s the keys clacking on a keyboard

what are you spelling out?

your name your number your sign

sequencial labels that do nothing for your spirit

honey i don’t even like smoking

there’s the secret

there’s the truth

we’re too good of friends to touch each other there

instead take my 

what

words sadness idiocy tomfoolery 

lover

i’m a poet

here to chronicle your happening

i’m nothing but happenstance

an instance you didn’t plan for

dear lord jesus the word known to all men 

isn’t lust or love or the lascivious way you smiled at her

so young and ready and wanting

it’s prominence

it’s promise

it’s all the tomorrows locked deep tight safe and sound in the holy

of her holies the saint of sodomy the tomorrow of yesterday

listen

i understand my function

i’m some level of a futile historian of things that have already happened to hundred of thousands of us us being the same version of twenty somethings that have existed since the invention of the cellphone

don’t speak to me in absolutes

don’t speak to me at all

signs and symbols and omens of ages that looked for the future in the guts innards livers of birds are what i lust after

i lust

actively

it’s a verb

i lust for these things

it

we keep talking about it

and what is it?

what is it?

what is the word known to all man don’t use my name and joyce’s in the same sentence he invented stream of continuity stream of contingency stream of malcontent 

now would be the perfect time to ask yourself

what does she mean

not nothing not nobody not never or no or how

god i really hate you but not you and it should be dislike hate is far too strong for anything other than a war front

sing the harmonies

it’s a beautiful girl walking home alone

it’s a beautiful boy you don’t have the courage for

or stamina

it’s the long silence between hand holding

it’s the last thought before a dream

who will play the fool?

me, pick me, 

i’d like to be first 

for the fall. 

got a new theme. got a new attitude. got a new pair of panties. 

get ready for the time of your life, universe. 

pennies and dimes for a kiss.

tech week. 


it begins today. costumes. lights. sound. set. theatre is magic. it’s the original rabbit out of a hat, and i can’t wait to share ulysses with the universe for one weekend. all my romantic ideals be damned, this show is gonna be something. a definite something. 

i’ve had a wonderful weekend. a wonderful week. now if i can just find an accompanist for voice lessons before wednesday, then life might just be smiling right on me. 

every time i sit down to write, i think i have some many things i’ve been meaning to chronicle or share, but i get in front of the screen and come up dry. i fell in mud yesterday. the earth was humbling me. mika’s coming on friday, my parents are thursday, and i simply cannot wait for that. 

also, a challenge. i think i write a lot of poetry as a cop out for stories and other prose. i used to write stories constantly. so i think i’ll challenge myself to write a page a day, of some story or other. i’ll find inspiration outside this computer screen and spin a tale. won’t that be nice?

tolloll. i’m off to re-hear. 

yeah, you would.

the things i’ve seen

are not many

they are nothing compared to what pieces of the earth have been

so anoint me

with the caustic oil
burn me with what’s purged from the light
the bits that burn
the scraps that smoulder

burn me

this is for all the nights i’ve waited to say,
love me

this is for all the night i should’ve gone to bed

the numbers don’t add up, angel.

the price isn’t right

don’t tell me things that aren’t true
tell me things that exist

tell me the last night you said,
no more
and the morning after when you
did again

i have only my words
and my eyes and my lips

it isn’t my vagina that needs servicing
it’s my spirit

so call your priest
write to your preacher
bring me a redeemer
of sawdust and soluble matter

i want to die a free soul 

it isn’t the darkness i fear
it’s the light of your ligaments
the brittle of your bones
the broken pattern of thought we all adhere to but advise against

i am meek

i am small

i am broken and ransacked and strong

stronger than the inability to swim against the current
stronger than the want for wanting
stronger

the things i’ve seen are not many

the earth bears witness to the birth of awful
or evil
of words worse than i have envisioned
of actions bellowing destruction

i have no capacity for destruction
what you do to yourself is your own goddamn choice don’t tie me
in the binds of your woes

anoint me.

i am tired and weary and alive,
birds on a wire
turtles after birth
mothers after conception
artists on a quest

these are the things i’m after

following, in succession, the noble procession of
previous life

who am i to be woeful
who am i to be sad

anoint me

drown me in the fragrant oils of things i’ll know at forty five
of children i’ll look square in the eye and say
go for it

it’s worth all the while

go for it

and fear not what man can do to you, dear child

the things man has seen are not many

the things man can do are not few

but this is no reason to not captivate an audience
this is no reason to not scream 

just be still with me.

wordsworth blasted , “the decadent material cynicism of the time,” in 1802.

king solomon knew, “there is nothing new under the sun,” between 971 and 931 bc. 

tegan and sara asked, “where does the good go?” in 2004. 

what’s the point being made here?

we know all too well. but pessimism is antiquated. depression holds no promise. let’s look to joy. let’s look to love. 

let’s look.