tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67066611214385348812024-03-14T00:56:07.209-04:00FloccinaucinihilipilificationWe've come full circleSchrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-16496156884926003862011-09-11T19:00:00.000-04:002011-11-03T20:31:32.184-04:00Lies and Vaudeville, finding their way home.<blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Well, <a href="http://maybesane.blogspot.com/2011/09/revenge.html">it's a good thing</a> that <a href="http://spotlightonstageleft.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-was-too-late.html">that's worked out</a>, then. As much as I don't like revenge - it's a messy thing - there has to be an equivalent exchange. I try not to think about it too much, or else I'll have to think about something else to balance it out, when I would much rather be talking with The Lord or finding out why rain is wet - or if it is wet at all - or if it's raining in the first place.</div>
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Tea-time's at four, anyway, every afternoon, and you're all invited; do stop by some time. We'd love to have you, or at least I would; but I rather think The Lord would love to have you, too.</div>
</blockquote>Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-64884999326818600792011-09-10T23:00:00.000-04:002011-09-10T23:00:01.203-04:00Messenger's Report<div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
This is not going to be pleasant.<br />
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I’m here to report the death of Emma-Sofia "Kathleen Schrödinger" Mondegreen. She died...sometime within the past few days. Thursday evening is our best guess. As I’m sure all of you reading her blog know, she was being held hostage by a certain “Cheshire,” and he proposed a little “game” to determine her fate. Only problem was, he had five aces and he dealt us a hand of Monopoly money. He never intended to honor his deal.<br />
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Cheshire just sort of disappeared, and a few of our Agents went in after him to check out what had happened. They found a note in her apartment directing them to the cellar of a library…the same one, if I’m not mistaken, that Schrödinger mentioned in her post that <a href="http://simultaneouslymeaningfulandworthless.blogspot.com/2011/06/i-just-deliver-news.html">featured my own blog</a>. Funny how those things work out sometimes.<br />
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When the Agents got to the cellar, Cheshire was already gone. So was Schrödinger. They…didn’t find a body. Technically. I can still, unfortunately, report with all certainty that Schrödinger is dead, because while there was no body, there was still a head.<br />
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There were also bones. Bones that we’ve managed to identify as belonging to Schrödinger. Bones that…how do I even put this?<br />
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The bones were covered in bite marks. Human bite marks. I’ll give that a moment to sink in.<br />
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I’m not usually one to pay final respects. Sure I’ll make observations or post any final wishes that may exist, but final, parting words to the deceased? It’s unprofessional and it requires getting attached to the victim. But I guess there are exceptions for everything.<br />
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Kathleen, you made me smile. You convinced me that, no matter how dark things get, it’s possible to remain optimistic. You made me, and I’m sure so many others, curious. But they’ve opened up the box, and I guess that same curiosity is what killed the Kat. But you live on. If not in their hearts, then in mine. And for you to be able to impact someone who’s technically your enemy as much as you have? Well, it’s an understatement to say that you’ll be missed. No one deserves to go like this. But you least of all.<br />
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Blog's over. Move along, people. Nothing more to see.<br />
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-Don’t Shoot The Messenger-</div>
Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-26085733282564973242011-09-07T00:00:00.002-04:002011-09-07T00:00:00.795-04:00Outwitted<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm a businessman. I'm fair. So I'll put the slut's fate in your hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">How about a contest you all know and love?</span></div>
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One some of you have entered before.</div>
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One that's easy.</div>
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One that really shows off your true colors.</div>
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One that's fair.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If a predetermined number of people post <i>OFF WITH HER HEAD</i> in the comments,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Emma's life will end posthaste.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If a predetermined number of people post <i>SUPERPOSITION OF STATES</i> in the comments,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Emma will live on as is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If a predetermined number of people post <i>L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.</i></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>N.</i> in the comments,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Emma's former condition will be restored and all memory of Master wiped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Cast your vote below. You have three days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">-Cheshire</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaHbZqqxUQg">Because Jellicles</a> <a href="http://images.sodahead.com/polls/000202118/polls_queen_of_hearts_7_0839_735350_answer_3_xlarge.jpeg">would,</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaHbZqqxUQg">and Jellicles can</a></span></i><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaHbZqqxUQg"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jellicles can, and Jellicles do...</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div>
Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-35206375070272210082011-09-06T09:00:00.000-04:002011-09-06T14:47:28.082-04:00<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">
Last night I had a dream</div>
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We were inseparably entwined</div>
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Like a piece of rope</div>
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Made out of two pieces of vine</div>
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Held together</div>
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Holding each other</div>
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With no one else in mind</div>
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Like two atoms in a molecule</div>
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Inseparably combined</div>
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<span style="color: white;">he drew a circle that shut me out</span></div>
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But then I woke</div>
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From the dream</div>
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To realize I was alone</div>
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A tragic event, I must admit</div>
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But let's not be overblown</div>
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I'm not trying to write a love song</div>
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Just a sad pathetic moan</div>
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And maybe I just need a change</div>
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Maybe I just need a new cologne</div>
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<span style="color: white;">heretic, rebel, a thing to flout;</span></div>
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Now I look at love</div>
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Like being stabbed in the heart</div>
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You torture each other</div>
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From day to day</div>
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And then one day you part</div>
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Most of the time it's misery</div>
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But there's some joy at the start</div>
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And for that I'd say it's worth it</div>
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Just use a blade that's short and sharp on me</div>
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<span style="color: white;">but love and i had the wit to win</span></div>
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If love is just a game</div>
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Then how come it's no fun?</div>
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he won't play fair</div>
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<span style="color: black;">If love is just a game</span></div>
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How come I've never won?</div>
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<span style="color: white;">we drew a circle that took him inininininininininininininininininininin</span></div>
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I guess maybe it's possible</div>
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I might be playing it wrong</div>
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And that's why every time I roll the dice</div>
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I always come undone</div>
Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-30414636650892308422011-09-05T15:00:00.000-04:002011-09-05T18:09:42.269-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And so on, and so on...</span></span></div>
Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-27131012898415658422011-09-05T12:00:00.002-04:002011-09-05T13:21:08.498-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Garret Patrick. Taken in from the streets by Emma-Sofia Mondegreen until his parents could locate and return him to his proper home. Was to be heir to an immense fortune formed in solid gold, until entire family was killed when their limousine was hit by a police car in the that was responding to a crash on February 29, 2008, Emma's twentieth birthday.</span></div>
Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-132644972958673782011-09-04T12:00:00.000-04:002011-09-04T12:00:01.368-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Seth Fitzgerald. Served in Vietnam for one year until he was taken as a prisoner of war until the last few troops pulled out, four years later, in 1973. Divorced his wife in 2000 and lived as a homeless man for some years until Emma-Sofia Mondegreen encouraged him to live his life the way he wanted to. Died when a taxi cab crashed into his bus on February 29, 2008, Emma's twentieth birthday.</span></div>
Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-66847859562258424892011-09-03T12:00:00.002-04:002011-09-03T13:25:05.491-04:00<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Esmeralda Mondegreen. Loving mother of four and eventual grandmother of Emma-Sofia Mondegreen. Diagnosed with melanoma at age seventy-four. Struggled against it for a grand total of two years, and then recovered. Died one month later while being transferred to another hospital when the ambulance crashed at the wreck of a bus on February 29, 2008, Emma's twentieth birthday.</span></div>
Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-61472650805412485352011-09-02T12:00:00.000-04:002011-09-03T13:25:14.347-04:00<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Sal Sigby. Bullied Emma-Sofia Mondegreen in school because she always had her dolls with her. Secretly wished he had the courage to bring his own stuffed animals. Died while driving his taxi on February 29, 2008, Emma's twentieth birthday.</span></div>
Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-481864726373752702011-08-31T12:00:00.004-04:002011-08-31T19:38:25.719-04:00We've come full circle<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You're sitting alone in your car.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
It's dark.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's cold.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It's really no place to be,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">but you were told you were to receive a package.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A man in a dark coat</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and low-brimmed hat</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">steps up to the side of your car</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and raps on the window.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You roll it down a few inches,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and he slips a manila folder through.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Inside are several envelopes,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">each labeled with a name.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There's at least a dozen of them.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Maybe more.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(It's a big folder.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Inside them are pictures.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dossiers.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Police reports.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You suddenly remember the names.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Recognize them.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">However unfortunate it may be,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">you've come</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://biweeklytableseminars.tumblr.com/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">full</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://simultaneouslymeaningfulandworthless.blogspot.com/">circle.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaHbZqqxUQg"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Because Jellicles are and Jellicles do</span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaHbZqqxUQg"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Jellicles do and Jellicles would</span></span></a></div>Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-8597297973806617262011-08-30T00:00:00.000-04:002011-08-30T00:00:03.503-04:00<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i>Her screams are like ambrosia.</i></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">001011010100001101101000011001010111001101101000011010010111001001100101</span></div>Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-71451964406933059172011-08-27T08:35:00.003-04:002011-08-27T08:35:00.592-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">he</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">he got me again</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and he</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">what would happen if he pledged himself to <strike>him</strike>?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">he was too curious</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">curiosity killed the cat</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">but he was</div><div style="text-align: center;">satisfied</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">and satisfaction brought it back</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">with a vengeance</div>Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-68847910936602130772011-08-27T02:57:00.003-04:002011-08-27T02:59:08.766-04:00<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Are you blind when you're born? Can you see in the dark?<br />
Can you look at a king? Would you sit on his throne?<br />
Can you say of your bite that it's worse than your bark?<br />
Are you cock of the walk when you're walking alone?</i></span> </div>Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-28626491357952924592011-08-23T15:51:00.001-04:002011-08-23T16:03:30.674-04:00Light as a feather<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://takethemyth.blogspot.com/2011/08/house.html">We've</a> <a href="http://youpaywedeliver.blogspot.com/">arrived.</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And...there are lots of trees here.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Enough to feel...claustrophobic.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But they don't look threatening.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Not to me, at least.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The trees here...are softer, almost.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">As if they protect what they hide.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">No doubt there's treasure buried away somewhere in this great forest.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But I'm in no shape to go searching for it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I've not wandered about the trees, no, I'm not ready for that yet.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But I've stared out at them through the windows.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">At least, the ones that aren't broken.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It's cold here. They say it's always cold, and I don't know how they can stand it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have Frankenstein to keep me warm, though. A big ol' jungle cat for protection.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I used to be afraid of dying.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now that I'm basically a corpse anyway, I...</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">The <a href="http://oabyssofmonsters.blogspot.com/2011/07/thing-about-this-thing-is-that.html">boils</a> have appeared now.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Maybe that means it'll be over soon.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Maybe if I die, people will be able to stop fussing over me.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I've only been a burden. I'm no use.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm not brave, like <a href="http://takethemyth.blogspot.com/">Elaine</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm not willful, like <a href="http://spotlightonstageleft.blogspot.com/">Rachael</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm not even huggable anymore, like Frank here.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I haven't helped anyone.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Have I?</div>Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-21669124962917197042011-08-20T11:37:00.000-04:002011-08-20T11:37:00.380-04:00Fuego<div class="text"><div class="de1">It was a nice place. I wish it hadn't gone like it did.</div><div class="de2"> </div><div class="de1">The motel wasn't exactly a fortress, but it was out in the middle of nowhere, and that single fact gave off a sense of security like nothing else could. But senses don't translate well into reality.</div><div class="de2"> </div><div class="de1">At something like one in the morning, someone in the lobby, probably the receptionist, started screaming on the intercom system about a fire. We had known something could have happened at any time, so we were up and out the door within minutes. There were maybe two other occupied rooms in the whole building, and as there was only one floor everyone got out safely. There was more than one ridge of flame spreading across the building. The first fire had started on the opposite end from where we had been, but it wasn't long before more lit up, consuming all that was visible of the once-proud motel. The manager was the last out, carrying a registry, and he did his own headcount; I guess baked customers are bad for business.</div><div class="de2"> </div><div class="de1">He counted twice, nodded to himself, and sagged against a car. I was about to go over and comfort the poor man when I realized there was one head missing. A very furry one.</div><div class="de2"> </div><div class="de1">Frankenstein was nowhere to be seen.</div><div class="de2"> </div><div class="de1">I know I made a bad decision. I know cats can often take care of themselves, and get out of the worst situations. I know I could have gotten hurt - worse than I was, anyway. Or killed. But Frank was just barely not a kitten. And he was my last memory of Francis. I couldn't let him perish. I dashed back through the shattered revolving door and started to run in the direction of the room. I heard his mewling before I had even got my hand on the knob, and once I was back inside I saw him again. He looked fine, if a little scared. I ran to him and cradled him in my arms, whispering what I hoped to be calming words, soothing lullabies. Frank leaped from my grasp, clawed his way up the curtains, and tumbled out of the window. Then fire collapsed on my back.</div><div class="de2"> </div><div class="de1">Not a beam, not a plank of wood, but just pure fire landed on top of me, forcing me to my hands and knees and subsequently the floor, where I began to choke and cough from the smoke inhalation. It didn't take long for me to pass out.</div><div class="de2"> </div><div class="de1">When I woke up Elaine was looking down at me, and there were stars behind her head, or maybe in her eyes, or maybe there weren't any stars at all. It hurt to move at all for a while, but when the manager offered to call an ambulance I refused. When time enough had passed and I forgot how to feel the pain, I stood up, and Frankenstein barreled into me, almost knocking me back down. In the ashes of the motel, a dark, bulky figure was sweeping at the ashes. When he turned, he saw me looking at him, and in a strange twist of movement and with the slightest spark as if at a campfire, disappeared.</div><div class="de1"> </div><div class="de1">When we were out of sight of the ruined motel, Cheshire's voice came to me again. "Three left," it said.</div><div class="de2"> </div><div class="de1">Oh well. At least the cat's safe.</div></div>Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-15151694805860770482011-08-14T12:22:00.002-04:002011-08-18T23:41:49.550-04:00Old world blues<div style="text-align: center;">On Friday we ran into an old acquaintance of mine.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">An...an ex.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We dated for a while in high school,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">when we were young</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and innocent,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and thought we could rule the world.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">He didn't stick around long enough for a proper reunion.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">He saw me - like this -</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and he asked me how my cats were doing.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
He knows I almost always have a cat or two around.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I told him they had...passed on.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Francis looked so genuinely sad when I said that.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">He promised to get me a new cat.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">He rushed away before I could say another word,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and an hour later he was back,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">with a little kitten.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Its coat was patchy -</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">not that it was missing any part of it,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">but there were splotches of brown,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">black,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">gray,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">white,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and he has the deepest sea-green forest-green green-green eyes.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Which fits, I think.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Considering the - the other two had red ones.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I don't know how he found out</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">but Francis confronted me some time later</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">with eight words:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Did that Cheshire bastard do this to you?</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I couldn't say no.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It's not in my nature to lie.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I bit my lip,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and nodded my head</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">almost imperceptibly.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">He nodded more vigorously.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ran off,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">hopped in a car</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and drove away.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Last night I had a dream.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cheshire was there.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Francis was there.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cheshire was laughing.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Francis was dead.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm so sorry, Francis.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm naming the cat Frankenstein.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">After its latest, greatest owne-</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">no. Not owner.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You can't <i>own</i> an animal, any more than you could <i>own</i> a human.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And what are humans but animals, anyway?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm naming the cat Frankenstein,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">after its latest</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">greatest</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">caretaker.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So much better than I'll ever be.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The scales are tipping so far in the wrong direction...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We need balance.</div>Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-18969720170263955282011-08-08T18:39:00.002-04:002011-08-08T18:40:45.877-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">And now...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://takethemyth.blogspot.com/">Elaine</a> has come.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I probably didn't look so good.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I might have even appeared as if I were finally dead,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">laying listlessly on the couch as I was.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But it didn't take long to leave,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">to head towards the one place</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">to meet <a href="http://spotlightonstageleft.blogspot.com/">the person</a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">that I've anticipated meeting</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">that I've dreaded meeting</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">for...some time, now.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Never feared.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">I never was afraid. Not of -</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">well.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">For all the soft words she's giving us,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Rachael is...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I can't say what she is.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">She intrigues me,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">as I assume I intrigue her.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I wish I could manage to show her the kindness she shows us.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But something...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It's more like a maze than a wall.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">More like a swamp than an ocean.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">There's something there, maybe even near,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">but getting there requires effort that could tire Hercules.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But never let it be said I couldn't complete a measly twelve tasks</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">for a man who hides in a brass pot.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ld-0na1mpI">Prepare, ride the lightning</a></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ld-0na1mpI"><i>It's not Hell or Heaven</i></a></div>Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-78922702434448603692011-08-01T07:00:00.001-04:002011-08-07T17:12:45.494-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://oabyssofmonsters.blogspot.com/">Killjay</a> is here.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">She's...done something.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">She...fixed this...thing Cheshire did to me.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I still feel like a corpse.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The last of my teeth fell out about an hour ago.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But it won't kill me now, if she's right.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And I trust her.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">She says she doesn't care about anything.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">She says she's not on anyone's side.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But I know this is important to her.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">She has to deal with this...Wasting thing too.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But...as soon as it was done,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
as soon as she had finished,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I heard him.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Heard his voice.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">He wasn't nearby, I think.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I could see his smile on the edge of my vision.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Five left."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://andhishorsehackafore.blogspot.com/">Sir Thighpiece</a>'s...<a href="http://oabyssofmonsters.blogspot.com/2011/07/thing-about-this-thing-is-that.html">contraption</a> did the job, though.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cheshire never actually showed up.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Killjay is leaving, now, I think.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">She has no reason to stay, she says,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">although I think she should relax.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But I see them everywhere now.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">The circles.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The circles, everywhere.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The circles of cats,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">of boxes,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">of swords,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">of smiles.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I hate them.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I hate those circles.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Such ordinary things make me afraid now.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The moon.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The caterwauling at night.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sharp shadows on grass.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Watches, clocks.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hearts.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Smiles.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cards.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Cats, even.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Rabbits.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Dogs.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Rats.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And circles.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Circles.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Such an ordinary thing.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And I should be meeting some friends soon.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Maybe I'll get a chance to relax.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">She got into my head.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">That's what Killjay does,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">but it didn't force me out.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I was...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">we were one.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">For but a moment.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It was the most</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">fantastic</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">and</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">frightening thing</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have ever experienced.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">That kind of intimacy is...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">probably not something you want to deal with.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Not that it's...bad?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But it's something big, on top of something huge.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We need to make some molehills out of mountains.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Not just keep piling rocks on top. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LBTH6XjwVs"><i>No matter what tie she's got in her right dresser tied</i></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LBTH6XjwVs"><i>I know she's watching that star - gonna twinkle</i></a></div>Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-30918874920503590472011-07-29T01:20:00.056-04:002011-07-29T01:41:07.872-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">if i may</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">i would like to take a leaf from a friend's book</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8YCSJpF4g4">ahem</a><br />
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<br />
oh well <a href="http://novatenebria.tumblr.com/">in five years' time</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">we could be <a href="http://thescarecrowexperiment.blogspot.com/">walking 'round a zoo</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">with the <a href="http://youandthestarsareone.blogspot.com/">sun shining down</a> over me and you</div><div style="text-align: center;">and there'll be love in <a href="http://fighthimuntiltheend.blogspot.com/">the bodies of the elephants</a> too</div><div style="text-align: center;">and i'll put my</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://hopesdreamslifeteenaddition.blogspot.com/">hands over your eyes</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">but <a href="http://therearemanycolorstoarainbow.blogspot.com/">you'll peek through</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">and there'll be</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">sun, sun, sun</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">all over our bodies</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and sun, sun, sun</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://exilisveritas.blogspot.com/">all down our necks</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and there'll be sun, sun, sun</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">all over our faces</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and sun, sun, sun </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://andhishorsehackafore.blogspot.com/">so what the heck?</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">'cause <a href="http://fall-asleep-tonight.blogspot.com/">i'll be laughing</a> at all your</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://worstjestever.blogspot.com/">silly little jokes</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">and we'll be laughing about how we</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://smokechokedroom.blogspot.com/">used to smoke</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">all those <a href="http://youpaywedeliver.blogspot.com/">stupid little cigarettes</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">and <a href="http://violetashes.blogspot.com/">drink stupid wine</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">'cause it's what</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://musicaloccurences.blogspot.com/">we needed</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://themorninghunter.blogspot.com/">to have a good time</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">but it was</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">fun, fun, fun</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://themadspeak.blogspot.com/">when we were drinking</a> it was</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">fun, fun, fun</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1654313138"><br />
</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://drunkassbloggers.blogspot.com/">when we were drunk</a> and it was</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">fun, fun, fun</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://censorshipisfun.blogspot.com/">when we were laughing</a> it was fun, fun, fun</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">oh it was fun</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">oh well <a href="http://raceisover.blogspot.com/">i'll look at you and say</a> it's the happiest <a href="http://wearebelieving.blogspot.com/">that i've ever been</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">i'll say</div><div style="text-align: center;">i no longer feel i have to be <a href="http://slendermanmustdie.blogspot.com/">James Dean</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">and she'll say</div><div style="text-align: center;">yeah well i feel</div><div style="text-align: center;">oh pretty happy too</div><div style="text-align: center;">and i'm <a href="http://recordsofanimpossibility.blogspot.com/">always pretty happy</a> when i'm <a href="http://aloneamongthewreck.wordpress.com/">just kickin' back</a> with you</div><div style="text-align: center;">and it'd be</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">love, love, love</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://breezeinmonochromenight.blogspot.com/">all through our bodies</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and love, love, love</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://averyshadylady.blogspot.com/">all through our minds</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and it'd be love, love, love</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://searchingtxfiles.blogspot.com/">all over her face</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and love, love, love</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://moonphasesofsummer.blogspot.com/">all over mine</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and though <a href="http://listentothecrows.blogspot.com/">admittedly all these moments</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://universeinsidemyhead.blogspot.com/">are just in my head</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">i'll be <a href="http://indianaverne.blogspot.com/">thinking about them</a> as i'm</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://brightconundrum.blogspot.com/">lying in bed</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">and i know that admittedly</div><div style="text-align: center;">it <a href="http://whatyouareinthedark.blogspot.com/">might not even come true</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">but <a href="http://twentyseventhampersand.wordpress.com/">in my mind</a> i'm having a pretty good<br />
<a href="http://warpintheweave.blogspot.com/">time with you</a> oh</div><div style="text-align: center;">in five years' time</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bearingbadnews.blogspot.com/">i might not know you</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">in five years' time</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://takethemyth.blogspot.com/">we might not speak oh</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">in five years' time</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://livinginthehouseofusher.blogspot.com/">we might not get along</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">in five years' time</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">you might just <a href="http://thelondonlibrarian.blogspot.com/">prove</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://fateworsethandeath.blogspot.com/">me</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://theaflacduckisanabomination.blogspot.com/">wrong</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">oh there'll be love, love, love</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thescarecrowexperiment.blogspot.com/">wherever</a> <a href="http://therearemanycolorstoarainbow.blogspot.com/">you</a> <a href="http://youandthestarsareone.blogspot.com/">go</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1654313306"><br />
</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">there'll be <a href="http://livinginthehouseofusher.blogspot.com/">love, love, love</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://novatenebria.tumblr.com/">wherever</a> <a href="http://slendermanmustdie.blogspot.com/">you</a> <a href="http://exilisveritas.blogspot.com/">go</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">there'll be love, love, love</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://wearebelieving.blogspot.com/">wherever</a> <a href="http://aloneamongthewreck.wordpress.com/">you</a> <a href="http://whatyouareinthedark.blogspot.com/">go</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">there'll be <a href="http://raceisover.blogspot.com/">love, love, love</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://twentyseventhampersand.wordpress.com/">wherever</a> <a href="http://hopesdreamslifeteenaddition.blogspot.com/">you</a> <a href="http://fall-asleep-tonight.blogspot.com/">go</a><br />
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there'll be love, love, love</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><a href="http://violetashes.blogspot.com/">wherever</a> <a href="http://breezeinmonochromenight.blogspot.com/">you</a> <a href="http://listentothecrows.blogspot.com/">go</a><br />
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there'll be <a href="http://censorshipisfun.blogspot.com/">love, love, love</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><a href="http://recordsofanimpossibility.blogspot.com/">wherever</a> <a href="http://themorninghunter.blogspot.com/">you</a> <a href="http://bearingbadnews.blogspot.com/">go</a><br />
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there'll be love, love, love</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><a href="http://indianaverne.blogspot.com/">wherever</a> <a href="http://musicaloccurences.blogspot.com/">you</a> <a href="http://warpintheweave.blogspot.com/">go</a><br />
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there'll be love, love, love</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><a href="http://youpaywedeliver.blogspot.com/">wherever</a> <a href="http://brightconundrum.blogspot.com/">you</a> <a href="http://asuperpositionofstates.tumblr.com/">go</a><br />
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<a href="http://spotlightonstageleft.blogspot.com/">there'll be l♥ve</a><br />
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all the names i can't say<br />
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all the names i don't know <br />
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i'm sorry <br />
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i'd Run if i thought i could<br />
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i'm not in any condition to do so<br />
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though if you want to come and pick me up<br />
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i'd be happy to get as far away from cheshire as possible<br />
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they're releasing me from the hospital in nine hours<br />
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they don't know i'm on the computer<br />
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they wouldn't want me to be<br />
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Corey brought me a laptop to use, courtesy of Sonia<br />
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whatever you think<br />
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of me<br />
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of anyone<br />
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whatever you know<br />
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whatever you see<br />
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just remember<br />
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i'm here<br />
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i'm smiling<br />
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i'm happy<br />
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and i love you<br />
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all of you<br />
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and that love is deep-seated enough that i can<br />
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that i can promise<br />
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i won't go down while i have that love<br />
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i can promise i won't go down without a fight</div>Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-57143787627640761452011-07-27T13:20:00.001-04:002011-07-27T13:31:05.382-04:00I'm going to start by saying that I WON'T be going on about how you're all crazy and this thing can't be real and blah blah blah. One of my oldest friends has been basically turned into a living corpse, is missing one hand, and just swallowed a bottle of pills. God knows how she managed to open the damn thing. Anyway, the point is, she's in trouble and I simply don't have time to argue about why. I know how that goes.<br />
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Emma is in the hospital right now. She's just had her stomach pumped, and the docs say there shouldn't be any residual effects, besides the psychological ones. What they're not addressing is why, after most of her hair fell out, she started losing teeth. Continuing with my not-being-in-denial method, I've been seeing the guy in the top hat around the hospital, though never directly. Always in a reflection or turning a corner, and he's <i>always</i> smiling. I managed to get one good glimpse of his face so far, and I can tell you two things: the first is that it is in fact Lewis, Emma's old boyfriend. The second is that his demented grin is something unnatural. It's not just a crazy stalker psycho-slasher grin; it's as if his face was stretched. At least he takes care of his teeth, although I can tell you, if I never see them again it'll be too soon.<br />
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The nurse says that the hospital is too crowded to allow Emma to stay here for very long, even with her obvious emotional trauma. They say that they can recommend a good psychiatrist, and she'll need lots of friends about her; and if we see Lewis again we should call the authorities, which I don't plan on doing. I know how that usually goes.<br />
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There's one more thing I should probably tell you, but I don't want to sound callous about it. I know how much Emma cares for her cats, and nobody's told her yet, but they're - you see? It's hard, in text, not to sound like an uncaring bitch. When me and Sonia showed up at Emma's place and found her laying on the bed with the bottle next to her, we found her cats. I won't disturb you with the details.<br />
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Look, I don't know exactly what Emma has done for you or what you've done for her. I don't know, either, how much you matter to her or how much she matters to you. But if you could give her some well-wishes, or say a prayer for her, or even just keep her in your thoughts, I, personally, would really appreciate it.<br />
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-Corey<br />
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P.S. And don't give me any of that bullshit about "walking away now" and "in over your head." Okay? I couldn't care less right now.Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-39931308896043106532011-07-26T00:00:00.000-04:002011-07-26T00:00:00.701-04:00A peek into another dimension...<div style="text-align: center;">There's a door, and you don't know where it leads.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Hello?</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">There's a door, and you want it to lead to Paradise.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> Who's there?</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;">There's a door, and it leads to Paradise, but you don't know that.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Can you see me?</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">There's a door, and<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;">and</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">i'm so sorry</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">i can't do this anymore</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">i can't do this anymore</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">i'm sorry</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">i'm so sorry</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">i can't do <a href="http://censorshipisfun.blogspot.com/">this</a> anymore</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">forgive me</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">please forgive me</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">for all i've done</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">for what i'm about to do</div>Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-49441681020105495062011-07-25T07:00:00.003-04:002011-07-25T11:13:43.321-04:00Because I Don't Know What He Does With His Half<div style="text-align: center;">Bala</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Balan</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Balance.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You get out of the theater early.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">A spotlight burned out,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and it won't be repaired for at least a week.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
You get home two hours before you normally do.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You knock on the door,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">get buzzed in by the receptionist,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">take the elevator up to your apartment.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It takes you a little while</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">to find the proper key.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You can hear people talking from inside.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You wonder if there's a party.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Could it be yours?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">No, your birthday was two months ago.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Could it be his?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">No, his birthday isn't for another two months.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You shove the key into the door</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and drag yourself inside.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">There he is, sitting on the couch,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">kissing some girl you've never seen before.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It takes you mere seconds to understand the scene.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You drop your bags and run,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">tears running down your face</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">nearly as fast</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">as you run from the wreckage of your heart.<br />
<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">You run and run and run and run<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">until you can't run anymore.<br />
<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">You run so long and so hard and so fast<br />
<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">that you get to the end of the Earth.<br />
<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">You stand there at the edge,<br />
<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">staring over the brink,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">waiting at the place</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">where the sidewalk ends.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You trip,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">you fall,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">you tumble.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1233215365"><br />
</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">You wake up.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You look around.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Just a bad dream.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Just a bad nightmare.<br />
<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://raceisover.blogspot.com/">Just a bad memory.</a></div>Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-43036878177966085342011-07-24T17:43:00.001-04:002011-07-24T17:44:32.764-04:00I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.<div style="text-align: center;">Balance.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You're being interviewed for a job.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You're not in it for the money,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">but for the experience.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The interviewer is a short man with a bushy beard<br />
<br />
and a dimpled smile.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">He looks like he'd be a nice guy to work with.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">While you're waiting,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">a man dressed in rags and Mardi Gras beads</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">enters the room.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">He's muttering to himself.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Something about aliens or demons or -</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">or something.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">He gets called in first,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">since they're going by alphabetical order.<br />
<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">He's only in there for about ten minutes,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and then you get called in.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Over the course of an hour,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">you feel like you've impressed the interviewer</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">with your extensive resume</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and interesting personal skills.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Your great shining smile seems like it encourages him,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">and he smiles back.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">You really feel like you've got this interview down pat.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">When all's said and done, you leave the building,<br />
<br />
thinking you'll get the job.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">After all, there are only a few applicants,<br />
<br />
and you're pretty confident in yourself.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Eventually you receive a letter in the mail with the news.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">No, you didn't get the job.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://livinginthehouseofusher.blogspot.com/">Guess who did?</a></div>Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-40315064209913278062011-07-20T15:32:00.001-04:002011-07-25T20:06:50.839-04:00A friend of mine is here to type for me because I can't. Not after what Cheshire did. He just let me go when he was done with me, and I don't know why. I think he's done something to me. I keep throwing up every time I try to eat something, and my hair is falling out. Luckily my friends have been with me through thick and thin and it doesn't matter to them as long as they can help, and Sierra and Mab don't care about appearance as long as I love them and take care of them. Which I try. I've tried ever since I got them. But I just don't think I can do that anymore. I can't give them away. They're too young, and Sierra still hasn't recovered completely. It's not that I can't afford them anymore, but I'm scared that Cheshire will hurt them like he's hurt me. Or worse. He could hurt me so much worse, but he's saving his anger. "Six left," he said. So if a finger was one, and a hand was two, what's three? Four? Five? What happens at zero? I'm not a cat. I only have one life.<br />
<br />
There's something I need to confess.<br />
<div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Kathleen </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Schr</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">ödinger isn't my real name. When I became an actress I took up a pseudonym that was more interesting than who I really was. I figured nobody would want to cast Emma-Sofia Mondegreen. But that doesn't matter now, does it? I won't be acting again any time soon.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">I'll be back up to snuff soon. I hope. </span></span></span></span></span>Schrödingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10198773770839504080noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706661121438534881.post-76154453354931688972011-07-18T00:00:00.007-04:002011-07-18T00:00:06.167-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x429/Schrokat/P7160010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x429/Schrokat/P7160010.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x429/Schrokat/P7160010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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