lazaRUSS

Tonight

2010-10-13T11:13:00.001-07:00

Miss the living.
Live the missing.

Tonight

2010-08-22T04:55:00.000-07:00

Work as if there's rest tomorrow.

Tonight

2010-06-24T11:00:00.000-07:00

You sang a song
sitting on the song
of you.

Stand and let the chorus fly.

Today

2010-06-22T19:31:00.000-07:00

Leave the dreaming to sleep.
Live the dream until you sleep.

Tonight

2010-06-21T09:56:00.000-07:00

Wait for the rain.
Curse it when it comes.
Shout with it.
Kiss and make up.

Tonight

2010-03-30T06:03:00.000-07:00

sing a song
through a cigarette.

Tonight

2010-02-26T04:12:00.000-08:00

Leave before you arrive.
Arrive where you left.

Tonight

2010-02-21T21:24:00.000-08:00

Kill the beast
in the mirror.
Cheer for the hero.

Tonight

2010-02-21T21:23:00.000-08:00

Double the sun
triple the moon
run run run.

Tonight

2010-02-21T20:53:00.000-08:00

Spell a kiss
with hair.

Tonight

2009-08-11T20:48:00.000-07:00

The dead are dead and the living are dying.

Tonight

2008-12-10T23:55:00.000-08:00

longing is a cliff
solitude is a tree on a cliff
love is lightning that splits it in two

Tonight

2008-12-08T22:42:00.000-08:00

visit your own future grave.

Tonight

2008-12-04T18:44:00.000-08:00

Sway

swing

sing

like a whore.

Tonight

2008-12-04T18:02:00.001-08:00

Outshine the moon.

Tonight

2008-12-04T18:00:00.000-08:00

Cigarettes kiss like Romeo's and Juliet's ignorant of love,

names are prayers like unsent love letters in flames,

and hearts linger like dying embers in the air.

Tonight

2008-12-04T17:59:00.000-08:00

Be loved by your pillow.
Love it back. Exchange vows with it.

Tonight

2008-12-04T17:53:00.000-08:00

Be the little drummer boy

Parapapampam your way to sleep.

Tonight

2008-12-01T17:12:00.001-08:00

Wear sunglasses. Sunbathe.

Tonight

2008-12-01T17:10:00.000-08:00

Get drunk with sobriety.

Tonight

2008-11-26T23:07:00.000-08:00

Write your own anthem

erase as you go.

To step outside in.

2008-11-25T17:21:00.000-08:00

To charge at your retreating self. To be on the edge and all of the time-midway. To live with enough for a day in currency or soul. To move constantly. To not be able to stand more than five minutes among aliens turning more human after every chip of time, like sculptures in progress. To analyze the self and to learn that in doing so returns you to the self. To dream nine hours a day and to wake up to dreams when the day has done its share of sleeping. To sneak out of a conversation of three or four or more because the best way to say your piece is to shut up. To find that without your friends, you are still nothing also that you've grown enough not to mind. To find that lies are the basis of certain truths and that they are more dangerous than cigarettes. To find yourself talking to yourself about finding yourself talking to yourself. To see sunrise at dusk. To say goodbye to the sun in the morning. To be bone-naked as the moon after dark, when everyone else is under cover of sheets and arms, safe from all that everyone runs from at day. To catch a feather of a royal kingfisher in the heart of the city and to mourn its abdication. To understand a cat- to leave it to its solitude on the roof, waiting, only not hiding unlike you-sometimes. To see that it is your mind that thins you out. To find pleasure in the need of eating. To flirt with the sky when everyone else is flirting with flesh. To fall in love with a closed door. To laugh alone like everybody's watching. To sing silently like everyone is listening. To write to pacify the cursor's impatience. To realize that looking for reasons is ridiculous. To find the ridiculous reasonable. To give reasons because it is selfish not to.
To leave because to stay is to wave goodbye.To run because music wants to be chased. To sit because the chair is lonely. To think because the mind needs purpose. To walk because running takes away the fun. To be foolish because everyone thinks they are wise. To be stubborn because everyone is humble and proud of it. To lie because the truth is boring. To read because the pages need turning. To fight because fighting is exercise. To fly because angels no longer do. To frown because it is rude to smile. To smile because it is polite to frown. To love because hate is underrated. To hate because love is overrated. To swim because fish socialize. To dance because the dead can too.To stand because everyone wants to sit.To sit when everyone is standing. To kneel because nobody does anymore.To pray because no one is listening. To listen. To close your eyes to the sound of alone. To find joy in the headlights of a car. To find routine can be profane but still-beautiful.To like liking because it is not loving.To dislike liking because it is not loving. To miss your parents and to not want to see them. To save your family from the disgrace of your vindication.To snore awake. To talk in your sleep talking to sleep. To fold because you cannot bend. To break because bending is less exciting. To shout because it is quiet. To whisper because it is too loud. To be reduced to a breathing rock. To be glorified as an honest convict. To ascend into your own abyss. To sink into another's heaven. To share experiences with a falling leaf.To follow the trail of a fallen coin. To watch smoke linger and to keep it company.To tread on grass and to apologize for each step. To welcome the staircase that brings you home. To close the door because it is time to unfold.
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for larry

Tonight

2008-11-25T16:00:00.000-08:00

Shut up
as loud as you can

Twist of faith

2008-11-23T23:29:00.001-08:00

I did not meet the most severely twisted people I know in art school, my old neighborhood, or the bohemian bar I frequent. I met them in the last christian church I went to.

Tonight

2008-11-23T21:41:00.000-08:00

Finger-tap dance
on the keyboard

Watch yourself pirouette
on the screen.

Tonight

2008-11-23T20:32:00.001-08:00

Rock.

Shit

2008-11-23T20:25:00.001-08:00

There are approximately 6,738,934,047 people
shitting 3 times a week to 3 times a day

the world IS full of shit.

Tonight

2008-11-23T17:49:00.000-08:00

wear a poker face
with feeling.

Tonight

2008-11-21T08:34:00.000-08:00

Walk around the city
like a stray cat

Farmland

2008-11-21T00:44:00.000-08:00

The world is a farm
and we are all livestock

but which pig are you?