October 2010
10 posts
Do you understand shyness? I thought that maybe once I did something, I’d feel more comfortable blabbing away to everyone else—as if everyone else had something going on in their lives that I lacked. But then I did some things, and I’m not sure I find it any easier.
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On Twitter I sometimes post excerpts from my correspondences. Here is a history:
“I will give her your phone number, passport photo, and status of your third nipple. (Dormant.)”
“Maybe it was wishful thinking: Radishes you could eat like apples.”
“Never date a woman without a pair of boots in her closet.”
“Feel like I’ll shut down one day and...
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A poem! CRW 101 by Diya Chaudhuri →
Have not posted a link in a while. This link takes you to a poem by Diya Chaudhuri which is the first poem I’ve ever read all the way through. (Not true.) (But almost.)
Is anything still moral or have we entered an age of immorality? Will I ever have a child of my own? Will I live near the ocean again? Will I have a book? What will it look like? Could I own a dog as a pet? Is there life beyond this planet? How much don’t we know about the oceans? How can I be a better human? What are the ways to not live selfishly? Am I strong enough to live that way? Will...
I started a library →
Essential stories, essays, interviews, and more, all available online. Will grow as I find them or remember them.
I am not a normal man and my relationships look like those weird cuts of meat you find at the end sections of small groceries and butcher shops. Recognizable as meat, but ultimately unidentifiable and oddly shaped.
The last relationship I was in—and it can barely be called a relationship—went something like this: I was in Singapore and a woman I knew from when I lived in Florida said, “Why aren’t...