tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200996732024-03-07T19:19:21.362-08:00Alice S. Affonso in englishAlice Salles Affonso / in love with feelings.../ i love everything that has color, life and light of its own.../ "i've extended strings from field to field; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star and now I dance." Arthur Rimbaud and me/ i love ellipses.../Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comBlogger159125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-67066579776439107472013-01-01T21:03:00.000-08:002013-01-01T22:56:37.637-08:00Zero Dark Thirty Or 50 Shades Of Awesome<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I simply appreciate when a moviemaker does not push his or her political agenda down my throat ~</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Jessica Chastain being awesome</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I think of movies I think of unforgettable masterpieces
I later relate to whatever was happening to me when I first watched it and what
kind of “message” (for lack of a better term) I took from it, whether or not
the director, writer, producer etc. made the decision </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">consciously or not</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> to
embed the movie with any philosophical seeds or moral lessons per se. However, I usually find myself trying not too read too much into anything, after all, it's just a movie. I especially contain myself from preaching the message I took from the movie since the experience of understanding a film should belong to the viewer. Always.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I heard that some moviegoers and critics had decided to see
a lot of pro-torture propaganda in the latest Kathryn Bigelow flick. Some even
said this movie would not be a major Academy contender because of the somewhat
“negative” message, which prompted the question: are these people insane!? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I instantly felt I needed to see this one, as fast as I
possibly could, to try to understand why in the world anybody in their right
minds would make any kind of movie supporting torture in this day and age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Boy, were these folks wrong! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What I realized by watching this film is that these critics
were not only “reading too much into it”; they were experiencing a crisis of
perception. Really. When a movie maker states in the very beginning of the film
that the following story is based on nothing but first-hand accounts of facts,
all you really have to do – as a viewer – is to take the filmmaker’s word and
go with it. Clear up your mind, bro - you may learn a thing or two about the
perks of not being so uptight about every freaking thing you consume.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With that being said, let’s talk about the movie:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is a no-brainer, for me at least. Zero Dark Thirty is a
great example of what simple story telling, straight-to-the-point execution and
poignant performances can do to an audience. Yes, you guessed it, films like
that make people think. In spite of the lack of any character development, this
movie accomplished what Argo also did in 2012: it was politically neutral.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In a time when Hollywood has shown its teeth by ferociously
sticking with the Obama supporting majority, one would have guessed that most
movies being pushed into production would end up being one-dimensional,
politically speaking, but that hasn’t been the case with Zero Dark Thirty and
Argo. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Although I must say I’m impressed, I’m not exactly convinced
people understand the importance of this film’s neutrality. When Bigelow and
Mark Boel decided to recount the “greatest manhunt in history” without picking
sides, they did us all a favor by exposing the process in which the so-called
independent intelligence agency arm of the United States government operated
and how it continued to operate in spite of any “change” D.C. saw throughout
the period the movie portrays.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They chose to let us understand that, promises are only words
when uttered by politicians and that we are better off not letting our
emotional chunk take over when we are looking at facts and not some
cheesy soap that has been running now for way too long.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When an artist, be him or her a musician, a painter, a
photographer or a filmmaker, decides to simply recreate the facts of the period
in which they live without picking sides, they are making a strong and
significant statement, they are allowing the viewer the pleasure and full
responsibility of understanding their art (and history) their own way and not
letting politics (machinations,
maneuvering, opportunism, which are all definitions of politics) set the tone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Don’t
get me wrong: I like discussing politics. Current political affairs are a
constant in my social exchanges but I do appreciate when a moviemaker does not
push his or her political agenda down my throat. I like to think for myself and
trust those who feel the same way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now,
when it comes to what I personally took from this movie, I must say I learned a
thing or two about not overestimating obstacles, enemies etc. Yes, I did learn
by watching Zero Dark Thirty that, the solution to the problem was simple and
it was obvious but those in power decided to, wait for it… read too much into
it (!) and ended up making the manhunt a much more complicated puzzle than it
truly was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">SPOILER
ALERT</span></b>: <i>At some point of the movie, the big guy wants “tangible proof, like a
picture or something” of the big ol’bearded terrorist in order to act. Having
detailed info concerning an unknown male with a wife and kids in constant
contact with bin Laden’s main message carrier hiding in a fortress without ever
using a phone wasn’t enough! </i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>END OF SPOILER</b></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to seeing more subliminal messages in movies about governmental agencies than
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>So I'm 28 years of age.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was born exactly 28 years ago and what strikes me as the most astonishing of accomplishments is that:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One, I didn't get to be the rock star I thought I would eventually become and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Two, I didn't get to die during my 27th year of existence at the prime of my game...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Living is a weird thing, it takes so much time to get it and then it takes even more time to let it go. By the time you're gone, you forgot you cared but by the time you've realized you care, you find you care so much, it hurts to show...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I guess that's all I have to say about me, really. You see, I deal with myself constantly and to be honest, I'm just as fun as staring at brick walls when all you care for is the ocean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">Why
is it that having a hobby is healthy and being mildly obsessed with a band, a movie
star or a literature character harmful?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">Humans
have a funny way to categorize everything and make sure that, whatever it is
that is placed above or beneath previously traced lines, is crushed back to
exist within limits or expelled forcefully through the use of real-world
politics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">Yes,
I used the word politics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">Because
politics is exactly what one may find meticulously defined in the contents of a
dictionary: power struggle, machinations, maneuvering and finally opportunism.
Part of the reason why I hate politics so much is how aware I am of its
influence and how incredibly sensible I am about its effect on people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">Politics
push everybody to think like everybody and I have no patience regarding those
individuals who won’t let me be an individual. To constantly feel pressure to
make a good impression because, believe it or not, I might offend Joe and Jack
over there when they finally find out my radical and poetic visions regarding
my own self and my own preferences when it comes to whatever do not match
theirs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">‘Whatever’
is too much of an issue to deal with because taboo is a much easier thing to
fight over than, I don’t know, anything that is truly important. Because the
idea of fighting, after all, is overrated and blown out of proportions, which
leaves nothing to the imagination and everything to the shallow. To fight over
something is a luxury item that is truly available for all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">The
one thing we have in common: the capacity to argue over nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">When
one argues my “opinion” (note how I placed opinion between quotation marks)
offends them or outrages them or makes me less of the human I obviously am, I
puke a little inside my mouth but before feeling sick, I feel fine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">I,
in the end, know better while the pig that spits on my face knows only how to
be… a pig. That’s true politics, to point the finger at somebody for having
some ludicrous idea and mock him or her for expressing thoughts in a very
inoffensive manner. To create the idea in others that a harmless someone is not
worth any attention and to do so forcefully, through the use of a detrimental
and abusive approach… now that is politics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua';">Wow.
A post that started as a rebellious way of telling the world I do not like to hide
what I feel that finished with a rant about real-world politics… We haven’t
changed much since Columbus ‘came across’ the Americas and I guess evolution is
nothing but a faint notion of idealized humanity that mankind is simply not
able to wrap its collective mind around… and never will.<span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-15771827537251204892012-05-17T22:27:00.002-07:002012-11-12T20:54:21.187-08:00A poem that should have been more<br />
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You raise your voice and you <o:p></o:p></div>
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Speak – <o:p></o:p></div>
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some clap.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You fear they’ll take over<o:p></o:p></div>
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As if a cloud<o:p></o:p></div>
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Could cover up the skies forever or <o:p></o:p></div>
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The rain<o:p></o:p></div>
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Could wash up the Kamešnica<o:p></o:p></div>
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Away from this land<o:p></o:p></div>
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That is yours and that is
also<o:p></o:p></div>
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Theirs<o:p></o:p></div>
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For that is land for all,<o:p></o:p></div>
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For those who seek to live <o:p></o:p></div>
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Like animals instinctively
do </div>
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and just like we</div>
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also happen </div>
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To do</div>
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<br /></div>
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Like a child<o:p></o:p></div>
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You run and hide under your bed,</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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Like a child running loose</div>
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Without the presence of a sensible soul</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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You get your hands on the first heavy and</div>
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sharp thing you find</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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And you aim </div>
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At this imminent threat,</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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The made-up ghost<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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You raise your voice<o:p></o:p></div>
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And your cup<o:p></o:p></div>
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You drink as if there were no Tomorrows</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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No days to live as one<o:p></o:p></div>
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Like the humans we all happen to be <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Like one<o:p></o:p></div>
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Full of flaws but still perfect<o:p></o:p></div>
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For being<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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You kill<o:p></o:p></div>
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As if a heart were worth a sack of stones<o:p></o:p></div>
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‘For those, those I threaten<o:p></o:p></div>
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have killed my own!’<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the past<o:p></o:p></div>
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The remote past,<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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But the past, one may reason<o:p></o:p></div>
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Doesn’t run back<o:p></o:p></div>
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To the present<o:p></o:p></div>
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With foamy mouths and<o:p></o:p></div>
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Empty stomachs<o:p></o:p></div>
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To collect installments<o:p></o:p></div>
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On old dues<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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The past is not aware of<o:p></o:p></div>
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The pain or shame<o:p></o:p></div>
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One of your own<o:p></o:p></div>
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Has endured<o:p></o:p></div>
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So do not reenact the theatre<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of a war that is not yours to fight<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Be it with kindness<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Or awareness,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Learn to relearn. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Note that putting the gun down<o:p></o:p></div>
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Is all one will be remembered for<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the end<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Put your gun down, boy<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I want to feel the kindness<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Dripping from the scent of the memory<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ll take with me to my grave:<o:p></o:p></div>
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The picture of your deep, grayish and<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
piercing<o:p></o:p></div>
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Blue eyes<o:p></o:p></div>
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Being kind.</div>
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<br /></div>
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I want to cherish you<o:p></o:p></div>
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As much<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I cherish<o:p></o:p></div>
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The ones you have hated<o:p></o:p></div>
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For far too long now<o:p></o:p></div>
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And for no good reason<o:p></o:p></div>
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At all<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Stavite svoje oružje dole.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s all you have to do,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oružje na terenu.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="PT-BR">O</span>n a day like this<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Days like that make sense<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In a moment of pristine<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And a moment of despair<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It’s true, dear, and so true<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Those days now seem<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not fair<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A reality I seldom embrace for I’ve<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Just learned <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The right side of my brain is<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Twisted and torn<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Never playing games, never<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Combining strengths <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">While the rest of the world struggles<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To find reasoning<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In make-believe separation, could it be that<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It’s our brain’s fault?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes and I <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">See, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The ocean won’t leave the shore but<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Shores will no longer shore be when<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ocean swiftly covers it all or will it<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Be <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That fire will blanket with its<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Reputable and wide hands the four corners of this <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">World of parsimony or<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Will it be that men<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Finally will<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Covet everything there is, the skies, and milky ways<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oceans of unsinkable stars and black holes hanging sideways<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Until all that could belong to a heavenly notion is nothing<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Another one of men’s acquisitions<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For the fighter in me wants to<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Conquer the fighter in you and<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fighting eye for an eye is old<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">News<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fighting tooth for a gallon of milk, well<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That’s more like it. ~</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><!--EndFragment-->Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-63903523053789517562011-11-07T19:17:00.000-08:002011-11-07T19:17:01.065-08:00home is you<div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.436187653336674" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">strange to think </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">what I know </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to be true</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">so deeply</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is what everyone </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">uses</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">against me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">they point out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">how crazy I am</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">or have become</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with time</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">so far away</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from all of that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">which once meant</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">home</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but what i leave out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">home was never</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">what home meant</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but the feeling</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i pursue</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that lives within </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and can only be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wild and free</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">once I feel I'm away </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from home</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">where another </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">type of home</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">breeds </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">more of the same</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">old thing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">folks used to call</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">love</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">or </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">serenity</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I call you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you are home</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the whole of what </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i've always known</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and others</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">always seemed so eager</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to shun away</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">as if what truly moves us</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">should be an item</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to be locked away</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">where all things shame</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">likes to claim</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">as their pride and joy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not I</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">home</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you and you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">alone.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span></div>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-59378784107727837572011-07-03T22:44:00.001-07:002011-07-03T22:44:34.490-07:00for bill<style>
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<div class="MsoNormal">I know</div><div class="MsoNormal">There’s something inside of you</div><div class="MsoNormal">A little rock of knowledge</div><div class="MsoNormal">They never really cared to</div><div class="MsoNormal">Love</div><div class="MsoNormal">A brick of understanding</div><div class="MsoNormal">Too heavy </div><div class="MsoNormal">For anyone else to carry</div><div class="MsoNormal">Too bright to be</div><div class="MsoNormal">Just part</div><div class="MsoNormal">Of the foundations </div><div class="MsoNormal">Of any given monument</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Unless you build</div><div class="MsoNormal">Your temple of importance</div><div class="MsoNormal">In a place where the soil glows </div><div class="MsoNormal">More than that of which</div><div class="MsoNormal">Shines bright</div><div class="MsoNormal">By the crowning of</div><div class="MsoNormal">A full day </div><div class="MsoNormal">In the end of the road</div><div class="MsoNormal">You travel</div><div class="MsoNormal">The bright glimpse of that</div><div class="MsoNormal">Star</div><div class="MsoNormal">That happens to be the center</div><div class="MsoNormal">Of everything</div><div class="MsoNormal">We know</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">What is it that turned into</div><div class="MsoNormal">The thing we care the most and</div><div class="MsoNormal">Can’t quite put a finger on?</div><div class="MsoNormal">The countless hours of traffic</div><div class="MsoNormal">Of frustrating work</div><div class="MsoNormal">We give away to</div><div class="MsoNormal">Those</div><div class="MsoNormal">Members of a society</div><div class="MsoNormal">So useless, and yet</div><div class="MsoNormal">They think they rule</div><div class="MsoNormal">The world,</div><div class="MsoNormal">Who don’t really</div><div class="MsoNormal">Bother</div><div class="MsoNormal">To mind our prickly presence</div><div class="MsoNormal">Here and there</div><div class="MsoNormal">And acknowledge our importance</div><div class="MsoNormal">Everywhere</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I know</div><div class="MsoNormal">This life isn’t worth it</div><div class="MsoNormal">And you said it</div><div class="MsoNormal">But you said something else</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Life is</div><div class="MsoNormal">All there is</div><div class="MsoNormal">For it’s one</div><div class="MsoNormal">After millions of them</div><div class="MsoNormal">Have allowed such clarity</div><div class="MsoNormal">In</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">An imagination</div><div class="MsoNormal">Playtime</div><div class="MsoNormal">Ground zero</div><div class="MsoNormal">For wonder</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I get it</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I really do</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">But all I really cared for</div><div class="MsoNormal">Was for you to know</div><div class="MsoNormal">I get it and that I</div><div class="MsoNormal">Really do</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">There’s nothing else</div><div class="MsoNormal">But a growing fear</div><div class="MsoNormal">In my heart</div><div class="MsoNormal">No one will ever</div><div class="MsoNormal">Feel you</div><div class="MsoNormal">Like I do</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">And to that I say</div><div class="MsoNormal">Yeah,</div><div class="MsoNormal">Oh no!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Someone turn this light</div><div class="MsoNormal">Low</div><div class="MsoNormal">I’m about</div><div class="MsoNormal">To take flight</div><div class="MsoNormal">And you know</div><div class="MsoNormal">How it goes</div><div class="MsoNormal">I can go high, but</div><div class="MsoNormal">I might end up going</div><div class="MsoNormal">Really,</div><div class="MsoNormal">Really low.</div>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-89379742906564635572011-06-16T21:27:00.000-07:002011-06-16T21:50:51.288-07:00that day in june<style>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">~~ It was an atypically cold morning amidst spring but he didn’t mind the weather. His phone was off and as it was expected of him, the bed remained undone and untouched. An empty glass on his desk, lamp on, windows wide open.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">On the predominantly bright and white screen, one single sentence written.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">That was everything.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">The gaunt look on his face, the dark circles around his eyes, the quiet despair.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">With the presence of a night crawler, he walked to kitchen and meticulously searched for something of interesting value in his messy living environment. Deception was clear until the moment his dog discovered something stuck under the front door.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">- A… letter? Really?</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">The crumpled pages were printed but there was a handwritten signature that caught his attention because of its similarity to his own. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">- Who did this? Ah. - He had a lucky guess.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">As the sun pushed the night away, he sat and read what was carefully placed on those pages only for his eyes to read:</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">***</span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Hey there Mike, I hope this will find you at the right moment…</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></div><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">First and foremost I must apologize. I was way out of line in my last message. Part of me thought that question would sound ‘cute’ only to realize it was actually stupid shortly after I clicked on the ‘send’ button.</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">With that being said I must also let you know I’m writing this to tell you why I like you so much or in other words, why I think I like you so much and what liking you means to me, right now.</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">It’s entirely your choice to stop reading this letter at this instant if you don’t like to be thrown into the thoughts of somebody’s sweet/deranged little head in the middle of the night without any previous prep time…</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Still here? You were warned.</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">My relationship status as we speak is ‘caught in somebody’s limbo where I’ve been fighting to get out alive without hurting the dreamer, not really knowing what the hell I’m searching for’, getting to the conclusion there’s ultimately nothing here for me to find, just to give: and I’ve given it all. I’m actually feeling like this is more like Blue Valentine and less Frankie and Johnny, nevertheless it is a situation I must deal with by myself, you have nothing to do with it, but</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">I kinda like you. </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">In fact, I like you quite a lot and this was the first time I felt like this since I fell for this guy I’m with. For a period I enjoyed being far, watching you work every now and then, thinking about what a great person you would be if I ever got to know you. I loved to do that.</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Being away was right. I could think you were nice enough in my good days or hang on to the idea you were just an arrogant little asshole in my bad days, but it didn’t take long for you to talk.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">It didn’t take long for me to notice my good days were always spot on and it definitely didn’t take me too long to be able to speak. That is a major issue in my book: a woman like myself should be silent for life or put away in a little village in the countryside of France (yes, France!) without internet connection so she’d never put herself in these stupid situations, ever again. </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">My point is I’m ashamed to like someone else but I’m not ashamed of liking that someone else. I’m ashamed I feel like a stupid platonic creepster when I know I’m nothing but a girl with lots of passion running through her veins and… I’m definitely ashamed of not being able to just take a deep breath and relax. No. I have to sit here and write this for you because, well, I like to make a brilliant fool of myself instead of simply moving on.</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">So, I’m sorry for my being me and I’m sorry I like you. You deserve someone less… well, like myself.</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">That was it and I guess I’m never seeing you again? :) …. :(</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">love, Rita. </span></i></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">***</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">By the time he was done reading the letter the day was new; the sprinklers had all gone off, the dogs were out sniffing trouble.</span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">A few people stepped out of their houses, cars drove slowly by and there was a refreshing smell of coffee being brewed coming from the house next door.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">It always seemed right to start a new story by morning time. ~~</span>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-773032269735199282011-05-09T09:04:00.000-07:002011-05-09T09:04:47.729-07:00loyalty<style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">- <i>Camille sat quietly; the fine line between knowing anything with conviction and acting with logic while carrying no truthful certainty in her heart.... could she ever meet any realistic goals living like this?</i> - </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">~ I’m here, am I not?</div><div class="MsoNormal">Full bodied like a crisp wind</div><div class="MsoNormal">The restless words</div><div class="MsoNormal">Being spit</div><div class="MsoNormal">Down the funnel</div><div class="MsoNormal">Of your eager ear</div><div class="MsoNormal">Reaching the bottom of</div><div class="MsoNormal">An aching heart</div><div class="MsoNormal">Merciful, but </div><div class="MsoNormal">Silent</div><div class="MsoNormal">For the waiting has made </div><div class="MsoNormal">It hard</div><div class="MsoNormal">For feelings to be</div><div class="MsoNormal">Allowed in</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I’m here, am I not?</div><div class="MsoNormal">All feelings</div><div class="MsoNormal">All flesh and red, hot blood</div><div class="MsoNormal">An ocean of vibrant pieces</div><div class="MsoNormal">Of this puzzle</div><div class="MsoNormal">You’ve been working on, but</div><div class="MsoNormal">Feeling blue</div><div class="MsoNormal">For the blue of your eyes</div><div class="MsoNormal">Speak in a tone of colors</div><div class="MsoNormal">I’ve never heard anywhere else, it</div><div class="MsoNormal">Speaks to me</div><div class="MsoNormal">Abruptly</div><div class="MsoNormal">In a harsh and fierce mood and</div><div class="MsoNormal">I respond to it, I’m here</div><div class="MsoNormal">Breathing the same air</div><div class="MsoNormal">You breath but </div><div class="MsoNormal">Unable to share</div><div class="MsoNormal">The same taste for longing</div><div class="MsoNormal">I thought you would</div><div class="MsoNormal">Die to kill</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Well, I’m here, </div><div class="MsoNormal">Am I not?</div><div class="MsoNormal">My part of this deal written in stone</div><div class="MsoNormal">You have my number, my hands and shoulders</div><div class="MsoNormal">You have my full</div><div class="MsoNormal">Attention</div><div class="MsoNormal">And strong arms</div><div class="MsoNormal">You have my ears</div><div class="MsoNormal">To hear only your voice</div><div class="MsoNormal">And the sounds you’ve waited</div><div class="MsoNormal">To let someone hear,</div><div class="MsoNormal">One who might look or</div><div class="MsoNormal">Maybe even sound </div><div class="MsoNormal">A little bit </div><div class="MsoNormal">Like me, so</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I’m here</div><div class="MsoNormal">You must be here too</div><div class="MsoNormal">All flesh, blood and saliva</div><div class="MsoNormal">The taste I knew</div><div class="MsoNormal">I would love to taste</div><div class="MsoNormal">The thick skin that allows</div><div class="MsoNormal">No one in but,</div><div class="MsoNormal">You’re here and yet</div><div class="MsoNormal">All is very dark my love, so</div><div class="MsoNormal">Come near</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Fear fuels only the weak and</div><div class="MsoNormal">Weakness is not </div><div class="MsoNormal">What matches</div><div class="MsoNormal">Your mirthful skin</div><div class="MsoNormal">Best,</div><div class="MsoNormal">It suits only</div><div class="MsoNormal">Those who lack</div><div class="MsoNormal">The type of loyalty</div><div class="MsoNormal">Only our unrest</div><div class="MsoNormal">Knows</div><div class="MsoNormal">By heart. ~</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-14995461615835656502011-04-09T02:20:00.000-07:002011-04-09T02:24:45.190-07:00....a late romantic.<div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Read this while you listen to <a href="http://t.co/l07meVS">this</a>.<i> If you dare.</i></span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>˜˜ </i></span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</style> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">My heart was bleak. My weak thinking gave room to experience for the lack of a better idea. The very first time I set my feet on this very sidewalk, you said, I had tears in my eyes, you know? Just like those tears running down your cheeks right at this instant, those tears of joy.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joy? I asked. I guess is all you answered.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">That’s what you said, I guess.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">As I glanced at what was happening right behind you I noticed the sound that was nearly dissipated by thick and heavy glass doors. The symphony blew the last chances I still had to pay attention to what you were now asking of me. Cry, you begged. Cry for releasing it all will set you free, but how could I? How could I do this just for you when…</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mahler was crying for me.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The world didn’t listen but I did, I followed it.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The sharp notes were but dubious in their courage so I carried on, going as far as pushing you, obstacle I adore to hate, out of the way. The door was almost shutting down completely but I managed to run fast enough so I could catch it open just before it was too late, such was my fear of not surrendering, such was my fear of neglecting this kind of happiness. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Just for a change.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">A song, that was all that it really was, a moment inside of a song that spoke to me in tongues of strings, in the shapes of hearts I would never learn to admire nor loathe, a song nonetheless. So much can be built around a song.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The universe could be nothing but the product of a note that built time and matter, the perfect moment of romance that created you and me could have started with the beat of a steady drum coming from the reliable old stereo system down the basement, a grip of true inspiration can come from the very sound of winds blowing a symphony of leaves right outside your study’s window… oh, a song.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">So much for a body of independent sounds, brought delicately together in the creation of a harmony I dare to call perfect.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was nothing but a song and I loved it, for all that it was worth those were true twelve minutes and four seconds of complete surrender, and for those timeless minutes I learned to listen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">~~ </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-16728540199243828542011-04-05T20:59:00.000-07:002011-04-05T20:59:11.953-07:00A Rat That Stinks<style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">There’s nothing wrong </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Nothing wrong with the line of your chin</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">The curve of your hips</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">The way you hold yourself up</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Against the truth</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Nothing wrong with the pale look</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Of your skin,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">The way your hands seem soft, in the edges</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">For not doing any hard work throughout</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Your entire life</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">There’s nothing wrong</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">With the way your lips move</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">To fight solely something we call</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">The silent rule</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">The golden, unbreakable law of men</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Nothing wrong with the way</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">You lace your shoe</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">You wait for your time to step in</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">When everything I demand</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Is for you to step away</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">There’s absolutely nothing wrong</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">In being wrong</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Completely wrong</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Fugaciously, fiercely, passionately wrong</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Bad in its core, rotten in its root in its</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Soul<span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">There’s nothing wrong, really</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Nothing particularly against the norm</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Nothing too fine, too sure of itself</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Nothing that will linger through the history</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Of mankind</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Nothing that would break my heart</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Nor his, nor hers, nor theirs, nor ours</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Nothing that would change my life for good</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">For those who shape my days</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Have kindness dripping</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">From their pores</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">They have eyes</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Full of sparkling sores – sores you will never learn to soothe, let alone notice- <span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">All in all, you are but a rat</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">A rat that stinks</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Like the sewer stinks of things</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">We don’t take to our graves</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Memories we don’t hold on to</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Because what you do counts as a nameless color</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Yes, a color that adds up to the lives of those</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Who rise, like I’ll rise</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">And fight relentlessly, like I shall fight </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">And are not afraid of going along</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">With the one golden, unbreakable law</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Of true men</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Of those who know</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">One who acts against one’s kind</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Must be left adrift, but </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">One who knows the worth of one’s kind</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Shall never </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Be forgotten</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Songs will be sung for them</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter";">Not for you.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-44087638501631133832011-03-24T00:21:00.000-07:002011-03-24T00:21:45.944-07:00unexpectedly<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>A poem was left for me, by a stranger. With these words a note: 'you remind me of her.' Nothing else, nothing left.</i></span></blockquote><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He aproaches carefully,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There's not one reason for him to rush</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Specially not towards the one</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Who - in a heartbeat - could </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Represent both</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Life and death,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Be his ruin</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Or his way out</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of this sort of mess</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He's created for</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">himself.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The long, wild and fearless curls covering her shoulder...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He wants to run his fingers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Through them,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bury his nose</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the nest of them</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He wants to go beyond just</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dreaming, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There's nothing but</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Desire</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And consequences</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hovering above his head</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There's nothing but passion</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Permanently damaging the tissues </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That hold his heart</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Together...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">His mind knows too much</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He wishes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He knew nothing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So her eyes</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> were all</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He would learn</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To know</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From now on.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">~~~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-10552275616144129632011-03-11T23:59:00.000-08:002011-03-11T23:59:39.181-08:00heroic is.<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">'What was as light/ as breath/ turns captive/ and still./I grew up and abandoned/my fervor./ I pretended/ I wasn’t heroic./ I turned/ my volume/ down./ I wish someone had told me/ that cynicism may be intelligent/ but enchantment/ is wise.'</span></blockquote><br />
I humbly observe the wheel of time surrender and yet still hold on firmly to the steering wheel of desire.<br />
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What breath has given, one may never shed in the name of cause. A cause is nothing but the twist of a knob, a knob that may increase or decrease the volume of the unique set of words that perpetually dance around your head,<br />
<br />
a cause is just a knob.<br />
<br />
Breath can only be taken for the flame that abides in the heart of the box that holds all knobs. These tiny buttons that with a tender pressure return the kindness by caressing you back, these causes that may mean the world but are not the world you breath for... for what breath stands for is something of a divine figure -<br />
<br />
something of a beauty that will remain untold.<br />
<br />
A colorless heart of strings that when touched just right tangle up in the shape of everything that<br />
<br />
smells,<br />
<br />
cries and smiles<br />
<br />
like love.<br />
<br />
and love can be... such a tender thing, so tender it can never be toughen, it can never be broken, it can only embrace.<br />
<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><b>love is heroic.</b></div><div style="text-align: right;"><b><br />
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</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">***</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-9496165026812598992011-02-07T18:40:00.000-08:002011-02-07T18:40:00.716-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I want me an ocean of understanding</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">nothing more than my hands can hold,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">nothing more than my love can mold;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I want my ocean to wash the world.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-82559183121025738992011-02-02T20:14:00.000-08:002011-02-02T20:16:34.533-08:00- blood stain.<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.8836202751845121" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.8836202751845121" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.8836202751845121" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">***</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.8836202751845121" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.8836202751845121" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There’s a stain calling out for fire’s name just outside my window.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A sight of dark red and shades of orange coloring the air my lungs breath in. the color they exhale... you don’t want to know.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;">There’s a light, it’s faint, but it’s a light, the voices of thousands of passionate souls</div></span><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;">the same souls that have been the fathers of history as we know it.</div></span><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;">they have been fighting their entire existence, they’ve been breeding to fight yet again.</div></span><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The word in my mouth is the same that comes out from their mouths, but I’m not them. They could never be me. One who was built to love with roses in arms, smiles of sympathy in her lips, sparks of warmth in her eyes as she watches her love step in.</div></span><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Be it now or then, they could never be me like nobody can teach me. Nobody can teach the parents of human history to love the magnitude of love. </div></span><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;">This one single soul, belonging to whom fears nothing but cares greatly and knows awfully too much, more than they do.</div></span><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;">After all, loving holds all truth ransom, holds all that lives well protected under its wings. **</div></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-9014133877396034002010-10-28T21:26:00.000-07:002010-10-28T21:34:47.684-07:00<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.6241253123153001" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>camille had a way of saying things, </i></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.6241253123153001" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>she called him that night and let it all out... </i></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.6241253123153001" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.6241253123153001" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i> </i></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.6241253123153001" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it turns out he actually listened.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>(play <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6eF1ey9oqo&feature=related">'i hope i don't fall in love with you'</a> by tom waits </b></span></div></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.6241253123153001" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>as you read this post - </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>if you dare)</b></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.6241253123153001" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.6241253123153001" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.6241253123153001" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-cold heart baby, cold heart bleeding ice cubes in my hands.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it drips, drips, drips</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i don’t quite believe it’s alright but you said so, i believe you, even though believing this might not mean going along with the truth, believing in you is all i really mind, right now, it doesn’t matter anyway -</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i guess the moon is about to freeze to death rolling around an ocean of darkness, baby, i’ve asked you to show your face more often, i guess i missed the last call, oh well, whatever... time rolls by like the night, like the moon, freezing to death away from me and you away from all the bloody pouching lips i got here hidden under my sleeve for you, baby, i’ve asked you to show your face - i guess you were just not quite righteously ready for me yet.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i know... i’m too much. more likely i guess i’m more than what you’ve expected, baby, i guess i’m more than what expectation expects when it comes to high expectation even though i myself never understood expectations to begin with.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the song plays softly. i believe it’s my queue.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i dance along you know, i see you. i see you in the reflection in the mirror, the eyes staring back at mine, your eyes so different from mine, the heavy look you got oh i know it well, i know it better than i know myself, and guess what? i’ve known myself my whole life.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i’ve known you my entire life and half of yours.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i’ve known you longer than i’ve known love and love has blossomed as sweat, blood and tears and they’ve been freezing baby, freezing like the very liquid we call fear, this sentence is short, the love lost is not forgotten, there’s a trail and the mixed tape is my pen drive filled with the moment of overrated passion in combustion being recorded by the wild winds of furious underrated reaction.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i love you. i’ve been loving you and you’ve been deserving more than what you’ve found so far.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">so let it all in, let me in - i guess you’ve let me in since the beginning, you’ve just been waiting for me. the eyes are open in the reflection in the mirror i guess mine have been shut all this time.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i’ve asked you to show your sweet face more often now haven’t i? i’ll let you in,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">this time around.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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</span></div>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-30437004981588899962010-07-08T15:07:00.000-07:002010-07-08T15:09:23.838-07:00from betty's book<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">brutally torn</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I'm brutally torn</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">turn me on, off and apart</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I'm done.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">or so is my mind.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">time spent not fearing makes the spheres go around...</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">--/--</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">the quiet place one can achieve</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">the better words one can learn</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">everything is easier when it's hard enough - </span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">the truth or dare of our last days.</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">--/--</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>"Betty's book" is yet another pet project that might not see the light of day.</b></span><br />
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</i></span></div>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-39733203966638028362010-06-11T12:52:00.000-07:002010-06-11T13:12:34.437-07:00hopelessly hopeful<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuY0Vx4JHtrMMt_CIFUX6Lujq4fwmm5RzU-ungD3IS7QHOCJAHcGFDxrIGyqsruOrrjwk3ZVHRBhnAB6MvNwgN3axc_8lvu4WM56_oU2p21mIG2C9Idr-VQSwWKAFu8ESDx8n7Iw/s1600/corda.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuY0Vx4JHtrMMt_CIFUX6Lujq4fwmm5RzU-ungD3IS7QHOCJAHcGFDxrIGyqsruOrrjwk3ZVHRBhnAB6MvNwgN3axc_8lvu4WM56_oU2p21mIG2C9Idr-VQSwWKAFu8ESDx8n7Iw/s400/corda.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481610538641775298" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">*L</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Courier New';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">et it be known, they were addicted to each other.</span></span></span></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Courier New';font-size:13px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">By the time of their twenty-seventh birthday, they couldn't see any further down the road if not assured by each other's reasonable confidence that everything would be alright.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Romeo and Juliet would be proud.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">He looked at her in state of awe, she looked at him in state of bliss.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- There's absolutely nothing that I wouldn't do for you. Nothing that lives within the walls of capacity can never stop me, I'd go beyond that for you, the feeling is this and this is the only thing that is because to be is all there is for us to do and doing anything else is just time-filling time on Earth... I don't want to do that, I want to be </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">this</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- I want to be </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">you</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. The tremendous insight of you, the skin you live in, the eyes you see the world with. I wanna embrace the very essence of you so I don't have to open my eyes inside of my own self ever again. I want to overflow you with me so I'll become you. I love you like the wind blows, freely, on its own terms and without any given thought. I was given to love you.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Let it be known that they were beyond vice, passion and addiction, they were woven together in a way it was hard to find the end of such rope... It wasn't their fault they loved so much, it was the stars.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The stars?</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Yes. The stars in their hearts.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">***</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">picture from </span><a href="http://olhares.aeiou.pt/le_choix_foto2209780.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></i></span></div><div><br /></div></span>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-48689504855367553682010-05-09T13:33:00.000-07:002010-05-09T13:48:03.663-07:00Why I Cry<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2U5YEE73xkX58ON6jzNbXBvQEOHXDXRT_4cufRg8AqXAi_zP6T46VW8LfvqBRsBiyCarz8HvyI5yNHsac0wBJ6vFrjKomVEFkukXrEBbdPG9K2buTYnCdAYpm-Gdir_jzXpx_uA/s1600/paiefilho.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 305px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2U5YEE73xkX58ON6jzNbXBvQEOHXDXRT_4cufRg8AqXAi_zP6T46VW8LfvqBRsBiyCarz8HvyI5yNHsac0wBJ6vFrjKomVEFkukXrEBbdPG9K2buTYnCdAYpm-Gdir_jzXpx_uA/s400/paiefilho.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469374603545369042" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Courier New';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">can still feel the burning sensation taking over my throat, my chest and the reluctant muscles that hold my features together, my body was fighting me. </span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Courier New';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Courier New';font-size:13px;"><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I can still remember the taste of the deranged and strange wave of fear that carved its way into my thoughts as I prevented the shame that an imminent outburst would take over in case I gave in. I can still hear the words in my head and the words that followed this moment coming from my dad's lips: "Don't hold your tears, never hold your tears." I heard him once and that was enough, for once has always proved to be enough for me. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">After the very first time I felt like crying in public and that I tried to hold it in, the physical pain I went through ended up being just a reminder of how my body responded to the deliberated disregard of my own feelings and instincts, a competent way of proving me to myself even in such an early stage of my growing process. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Maybe crying is the only way my body can let the frustration of a harsh feeling escape, and maybe - just maybe - my father knew better not to let me hold everything in even though I initially thought that keeping what I feel to myself was the best method to preserve my integrity. Although I still hold so much in, maybe more than I should, crying is the only physical proof of my incapacity to withhold this ocean of passion I master and have no clue of what to do with. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">picture from <a href="http://olhares.aeiou.pt/tal_pai_tal_filho_foto1041133.html">here.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br /></div></span></span>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-34876523193314331722010-05-01T12:01:00.000-07:002010-05-01T12:01:00.234-07:00The Frailty of Wanting<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>T</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">he frailty of wanting<br /></span></span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It all seems easy and reachable </span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Just because</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Wanting is easy and reachable -</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">While expecting tender thoughts</span></span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">made of hopes and golden garlands,</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To become as reachable</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And as vivid</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">as the feeling of a rough, cold wind</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">hitting the back of your neck,</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Or the hot and harsh grinding of skin</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">when all you had to do was </span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">to watch where you were going before tripping</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and falling</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">face against the brutal pavement -</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The frailty of wanting</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">equals nothing and equals everything</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Because you still wish to feel pain</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As much as you wish to be loved</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But never wish to see the clear sign of the rope</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">that ties</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One end</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">to the other.</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><br /><br /></span>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-17364040795651392832010-04-28T14:37:00.000-07:002010-04-28T14:50:54.997-07:00The violence of a heartbeat<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjULi0LFvh6U5eD5Sp5TDCRbLA6dv5HI6hEOPpZydKjGiNYR6pDtq0XbAzJjRcy_aWIsyMKMeoV2wrrwPokPyEDki4MW52t4qtFe5hBXHnUjTtdakyXgAA6uPgtec-eP_IWNzqGRw/s1600/DESIRE.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 287px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjULi0LFvh6U5eD5Sp5TDCRbLA6dv5HI6hEOPpZydKjGiNYR6pDtq0XbAzJjRcy_aWIsyMKMeoV2wrrwPokPyEDki4MW52t4qtFe5hBXHnUjTtdakyXgAA6uPgtec-eP_IWNzqGRw/s400/DESIRE.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465308594679416034" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I'</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Courier New';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">m not afraid of the violence present in the passion of a heartbeat, the very moment between now and later when everything will be rearranged to look like that very thing I wish to stay away from: the analyzing, constant humanizing of pure animal behavior. I'm not afraid of things I desire, I fully understand the consequences of wanting. The spark of life generated in the moment of idealization, the true recognition of reality without rationalization living in the drip drip drip of sweat, blood, saliva. I accept challenges that may only run deep into my own roots and veins, challenges perpetuated by the restlessness of those who do not seek but generate the seeds of all ordeals and nightmares behind wishing... I embrace the wholeheartedly, the mighty in life, mild in manners, I live for those who fully understand the meaning of craving - even though meanings have nothing to do with the heart of the matter... I do.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Courier New';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Courier New';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">***</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Courier New';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Courier New';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Courier New';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>picture <a href="http://olhares.aeiou.pt/foto3097914.html">here.</a></i></span></span></span></div>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-38821756119998785642010-03-23T12:49:00.000-07:002010-03-23T12:58:43.593-07:00The Movie by Jim Morrison<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtfnJ_CxZf15qN6MaQy1bnWGrSj9eM4jUOq1mXZepAwYCbBsYvfYWmmtHMaMbUSoenVEQ53HaydO07QBUoJZpolKvZ7XjhrP9T6ymmNTeLAmStoS_hdzVlPChKCwLftBCrzgIbqw/s1600-h/jim_morrison_briefmarke.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtfnJ_CxZf15qN6MaQy1bnWGrSj9eM4jUOq1mXZepAwYCbBsYvfYWmmtHMaMbUSoenVEQ53HaydO07QBUoJZpolKvZ7XjhrP9T6ymmNTeLAmStoS_hdzVlPChKCwLftBCrzgIbqw/s400/jim_morrison_briefmarke.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451921058638557330" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">"The movie will begin in five moments</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">/ The mindless voice announced/ </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">All those unseated will await the next show. / </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">We filed slowly, languidly into the hall/ The auditorium was vast and silent/ As we seated and were darkened, the voice continued./ </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">The program for this evening is not new/ You've seen this entertainment through and through/ You've seen your birth your life and death / you might recall all of the rest/ </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Did you have a good world when you died? / Enough to base a movie on?</span></span></i></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">I'm getting out of here/ </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Where are you going? </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">/ To the other side of morning/ </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Please don't chase the clouds, pagodas </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">/ Her cunt gripped him like a warm, friendly hand./ It's alright, all your friends are here/ </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">When can I meet them?</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">/ After you've eaten/ </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">I'm not hungry </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">/ Oh, we meant beaten.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana, arial;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Silver stream, silvery scream</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">Oooooh, impossible concentration..."</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></div></span></div>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-47347064731486971482010-03-10T12:19:00.000-08:002010-03-19T21:17:19.874-07:00The Truth Is...<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Garamond;font-size:13px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Today I feel like saying the truth and saying it out loud so I can hear it.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The truth is: I know exactly what I want and even though I do know exactly what I want and I can actually name and even tag each and every single individual "thing" I want to happen to me in my life, I can't truly admit it and say it with all the intensity I'm supposed to use whenever I talk about it, specially not out loud! </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Wow. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I know it, I feel it, I desire it and I can even taste it in my mouth, but I'm afraid of talking about it.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Why? you will ask because you should.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Well, I'll answer, because it scares me to think that I'll get it all. Because I know down my core that it's all very simple, I know what I want and I'm getting it. Knowing things are frightful. Being sure is fearsome. Having your hands and heart full of what makes you HAPPY is intrinsically, sickeningly, outrageously, dementedly and nervously HARDCORE SCARY, to an extend I don't even want to talk about too much out of fear of what other things I might encounter along the way. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Our world of humanity has been created on that of which we fear and this fear I'm talking about is also the very thing that sets us free.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yes, I've learned it now, I have. And I'm so proud of myself for finally confessing it to myself, because the other half of the truth is: the rest of the world doesn't matter at all.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If you can't - and listen to this carefully - admit the reality behind your existence to yourself, how can you even acknowledge the existence and co-existence of millions of others around you? Even those you've considered the closest to your kind (whatever you call kind) can never be truly close to you in matter and substance if you don't know what the heck you are!</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Do you follow? Of course you do. We are all lost and as lost as we are we are also constantly running away from ourselves, out of fear. But the fear is not the problem. The problem is not facing fear out of the fear you feel when facing fear, do you... perceive me?</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yes you do.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I know I do. I know I'm just talking to myself who happens to be YOU.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Well, anyway. I know what I want. I'm happy about it and this is kinda hurtful. Why? ask away. Because it's painful to know you are actually happy. For the first time you feel the warmth and the cold breeze mingle together in perfect harmony and you know that you are not that wall that will hold things from reaching your own life anymore, you do not stand tall as your own enemy and you never will again. You are proud of what you've learned and nothing can stop you from the things that are about to come your way... Yes.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Say yes, you know why? because you can. That should be the answer to any question, yes because I can.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I can and I am. And that's all that matters.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div></span></div>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-47727699393442893152010-03-09T08:36:00.000-08:002010-03-09T08:38:18.834-08:00she said it...<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ndmShSsdL7calfUWTWhyKGNsYNVxVrtt7HQXoAEZkaosHL6qeMyZOMlb6oMdPbSf5QXSmhMxxsUudSqlNaq3huC4PNDPKBZHJN4b3uz8QPiyitJ0CsfDgF1vayRArl5_lbqjnA/s1600-h/bj.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ndmShSsdL7calfUWTWhyKGNsYNVxVrtt7HQXoAEZkaosHL6qeMyZOMlb6oMdPbSf5QXSmhMxxsUudSqlNaq3huC4PNDPKBZHJN4b3uz8QPiyitJ0CsfDgF1vayRArl5_lbqjnA/s400/bj.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446674225746010290" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">"it's not meant to be a strife, </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';">it's not meant to be a struggle uphill..."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><br /></span></span></div>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20099673.post-58612539068604486472010-03-03T21:51:00.000-08:002010-03-03T21:57:24.616-08:00me<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBJq4p3igOjqZwNWRe6_dz5A2GmMHNWZPokM4PGvtHIht4DYyxP3lsVEUk2Mtq0a3ZC3BHK4cVglcOFkryG82l7rz4X98xX8AiLTIJ8frB66ExrIvX6mVSvY_kaZMD-xQDleyK3g/s1600-h/andando.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 302px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBJq4p3igOjqZwNWRe6_dz5A2GmMHNWZPokM4PGvtHIht4DYyxP3lsVEUk2Mtq0a3ZC3BHK4cVglcOFkryG82l7rz4X98xX8AiLTIJ8frB66ExrIvX6mVSvY_kaZMD-xQDleyK3g/s400/andando.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444653699427967570" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Garamond;font-size:large;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Garamond;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Garamond;font-size:19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">like low lights, red wine and black, black coffee.<br /></span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the soft feeling in my skin after i first open the windows in a week morning like a tuesday, </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">or wednesday early, before eight.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">everything feels fresh when it's early enough</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">and i like the feeling of early things against myself.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">early trains, the sound of early birds</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">magnets of a kind passion that never lived</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">and never will.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i like the color of lips before a kiss and adore the texture of eager skin before a fight.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i believe in strength,</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">of character</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">of love</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">of understanding.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i like the smell of familiar dreams, the cold shoulder from those who i'm indifferent to, i like to hear it how it's supposed to come out.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i can't stand fenced demons nor demons in disguise.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i like vacancy signs.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">and can't stand the restroom ones.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i love the night, when it reaches that endless hour, when i'm no longer scared of the emptiness that waits for me, when i've conquered such fears. i like the fact that they are present and grateful, every other night, close to me - close enough i could kiss them.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i like it when i can kiss you.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">and hug you.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">and give you all of those things i wish to receive</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">even though i won't</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">quietly.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i like to surround</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i like to embrace</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">but rather be alone</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">and still</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">until the bus arrives.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i adore the moon. i like to gaze into things while thinking of other things.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i like to create memories on words and sins, some of which are simple dreams.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i hate many, like some, despise a few.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i wait.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">waiting it won't be more than a bad moment. a rotten fruit. it's gonna be alright.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i wait and wait</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">and like to act </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">to myself, locked up.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i like the movement of honey dripping slowly, the taste of olive oil in my fingers.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i love it when the fire consumes a candle-wick</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">an old piece of paper</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">or my skin.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i like it when it rains, but i love it when it pours.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the smell of sunset after the storm...</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i like it more and more.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i do.</span></div></span>Alice Salleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389579882291901526noreply@blogger.com