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A Graduate Student Avoiding his Ph.D., Being Productive,
or Being Creative and Useful in Any Real Way...

Friday, November 18

Dancing without moving

Walking through invisible walls
Shedding layers
And dreaming of ice-cycles
And chocolate eyeliner
On her fastidious lips

November is too long
Leaves and a metal rake
Colorful, in it's coldness
And zippers on handrails make clanging noises

They are filling the hole in the earth
On Guadalupe
With Pipes and useless things
I want my link to the depths of the earth
I want it intact...
I still want to be waiting for you
posted by Brent, 3:44:00 PM

2 Comments:

i wish they made chocolate lip liner...it would be tastey.
commented by Blogger Aly, 4:12 PM  
That first line reminded me of something, maybe not the same kind of dancing without moving you're talking about:

CLAIRE: My wiring has always been a little wonky. Like, for a long time I thought I wasn’t charged at all, and then the ends started poking out, where the bone rises under the skin, the top of my vertebrae, wrist hinge, errr…my skin is wearing down.

JANE: Is that right? How long has this been going on?

CLAIRE: What I really need is some new juice. My current is dirty, it’s so tired. It keeps going around and around, and it’s going to start eating my wires…

JANE: You’ve really got the wolf by the ears, huh, baby.

CLAIRE: Oh.

I can’t get anything to move.

JANE: Well, we’re from a house where nothing moves.

CLAIRE: I want to do that thing you and Hel can do, you get really still, like astral projection, you can dance without moving…

JANE: You only learn that from being in a straight jacket.
commented by Blogger Anna, 8:27 PM  

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