| what can I say, I'm a college student studying Graphics Design at Florida State University. no clue where I'm going in life, but if I've got a sketchbook, journal, laptop, and cell phone, I'm sure I'll make it alright. |
Futile IllusionsIt’s 9:07 p.m. Showtime. They don’t know that I know, but I do.Futile Illusions
I’ve been on to them
from the beginning. They think I don’t hear the perverse echoes of their voices
wafting up from the
alleyway. They think they’re hidden as they bend the shadows of dumpsters and homeless cats for camouflage.
I hear their laughter in my head as they noiselessly scale the crumbling bricks
to my fourth floor flat. My face pressed
against the cloudy windowpane, I fervently wait;
View From Her VanitySharp blue-gray eyesView From Her Vanity
rimmed in countless layers of kohl and mascara scorn me; they pierce through me full of judgment and self-loathing. Manicured fingers rap the marble countertop. A white-knuckling grip steadies her as she leans over the polished sink, her face as close as a lover’s. A subconscious sigh
and suddenly she jerks herself away, but still a moment too late. Her breath, thick with guilt and the lingering
plateful-of-food scent fogs my brutally honest face, incriminating her. This abrasive front, her
Non-Dairy CreamerTonight, I am tracing the linesNon-Dairy Creamer
the shadows make on the walls of my bedroom and marking them to match the enflamed block-letters of my clock.
Sitting to examine my masterpiece, I notice the only shadow
I can never imprison; it moves like me, swaying gently
as it precariously perches on the
edge of an unused bed.
The shadow keeps perfect time as I twitch slightly
at the onset of an optimistically set alarm clock;
time to make the coffee, Brazilian roast, your favorite.
Impatient, I examine the irre
| what can I say, I'm a college student studying Graphics Design at Florida State University. no clue where I'm going in life, but if I've got a sketchbook, journal, laptop, and cell phone, I'm sure I'll make it alright. |
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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
I celebrate myself. and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
--Whitman
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
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"a prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages"
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*[~G l 0 0 m y t h e K I L L E R b e a r~]*
So nice of you
Mireille.
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'I always try to do what I don't know , this is how I hope to learn to do it ' Picasso.
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*ThePencilClub ~dAportraiteures *CelebrityPortraits
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"Love is a metaphysical gravity."*vbu *designerscouch
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