and Persephone said....

from underneath, walks slowly to the surface, on dark pathways, serpentine twists and turns, up to the sun-watered plane, thinking of mother. there was never winter on her mind, no bitter frosts, no icy flakes, only dappled petals and baked leaves. hunger gets the best of us, sneaks up, trembles from the inside, undulating out, and we become the sullen marionettes we struggle against. she did then. juice ran down her chin. blood-red and sweet, barred the way, and she had no choice but to turn back, away from light. turns her back on summer, said good-bye to spring. her mother wept in blizzards.


juice ran down her chin.
"i am not my mother", she says, only once, as she walks the long way back, down under.


"babies will put things in their mouths, never heard of sin."

"Lord my God, judge of my conscience, is my memory correct? Before you I lay my heart and my memory. At that time you were dealing with me in your hidden secret providence, and you were putting my shameful errors before my face so that I would see and hate them."

Devils Muse

and now it's time for something else. i was thinking that today is a nice day, a fine day, a day like any other, when you get right down to it. all the same to you.

this week, so far, i have come across some very interesting quotes, as I do everyday. But these, these I really liked. for one reason or another. they all mean something, to someone, somewhere. sometimes.

"baby it burns to be your fire on the side.."

"is there nothing left to do this afternoon? is there nothing left to say?"

"and is it true that devils end up like you?"

"i wash the streets from your skin when you come home.."

"there's trouble in here.."

"the last safe place...."

"this is your life. are you who you want to be? this is your life. is it everything you dreamed of, when the world was younger, and you had nothing yet to lose?"

Couldn't see the forest..............

there is one thing. a light from the back of the room. your smile. a soldiers memory. in a room down the hall, someone's life is falling apart. voiceless ghosts. single candle. the wife that has no idea, and refuses to open her eyes. a monstrance. my vertigo. there is more than just one thing. snap to this. for all the trees.


"this is not hollywood like I understood.."

"Look, I'm breathing as if it were easy.."

"My dreams, they are low, they're sick and must be drossed.."

"Nobody wants to know your story, nobody wants to know you're even here..."

Silence must be heard and borrowed heaven...

completely. looks like a whole piece. a piece is just a piece, just that. part of the whole. looks like something, a bit of that cake. ice cream cake, eaten before it melted out of sight and out of mind. your little secrets litter sunspots like slivers, leaping seamlessly, livening sweet things. nothing, nothing. there is more in this room than remembered, thick in the air, bloated walls imposing themselves into the rest of the house, rude pushes. a cup, paper, compressed because of all that it contains. i need water. give me a drink, love.

"nothing's gonna change my world..."

"the stranger sang a theme from someone else's dream............"

"The glaring colours that, in showers, clash in your clothes with such commotion, in poets' minds suggest the notion of a mad ballet-dance of flowers. These garish dresses illustrate your spirit, striped with every fad. O madwoman, whom, quite as mad, I love as madly as I hate."

"O my god, what am I that these late mouths should cry open in a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers."

"This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary."

How Low or High I go..........

i said I'm through. i said I'd done with that. i said, this time I'll start over.
so i'm walking faster than before, not backwards.
i had turkey today. tasty. reminds me that it's almost time to give thanks where thanks is due.
thank you.
blue like you do.

"I'm not like all the other girls, I won't take it like all the other girls, I can't share you like all the other girls....................."

"I want to break your heart then give you mine.."

"all summer long we sang a song and then we strolled those golden sands....."

"angels smiling on my happiness.."

"smack my bitch up.."

"satan is my motor."

Waiting for my rocket to come........

Glad the week is through. the worst is over. now for the good stuff. it's all sunshine and apple pie from here on out. blast off........

"sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows everywhere........."

"I got sunshine in a bag, I'm feelin' happy, I'm useless but not for long, my future is comin' on....."

"Logic will break your heart"

BushWhacked!

consider:

various events, news flashes, opinions, facts, illusions, truth, patriotism, fear, community, sensibility, purpose, death, vaccinations, new discoveries, weaponry, star-power, avian miscellany, arsenal, money money money, magazine covers, black and white print, lucky numbers, my country tis of thee....


" I can't see New York as I'm circling down through white cloud, falling out, and I know his lips are warm, but I can't seem to find my way out, my way out, of this hunting ground..."

"And my country tis of thee to take shots at each other on the prime time tv, and why don't we just go ahead and turn off the sun, cuz we'll never live long enough to undo everything they've done to you......"

"...look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away."

"A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange a single hurt color and an arrangement in a system of pointing. All this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling. The difference is spreading."

my country tis of thee.

Ring My Bell

sun is out today. burns hot on me, feel a little like a pancake sometimes, in the afternoon. I could do a lot of things today, but maybe I won't. maybe I'll just sit and smile, perplexed at myself and my silly loud thoughts, or maybe I'll go down to the hamburger cart and have myself a hot dog, no bun please, extra mustard, and maybe I'll get a whole lot done today, like shine my shoes and change my whole life around so that I can see everything all at once, flip-side. I like that. I think so. hand me a cold slab of butter please.


pancake.


"I lost my lucky ball and chain...."

"She flashes her devil-grin, measuring you carefully. She will decide your place in this game she and her brother have crafted, a game of you."

"....for king lazy-bones like myself, because......"