Archive for May, 2008

my first night in italy i dreamt about me and my family being tortured and killed by men who had broken into our business shop. I woke up sobbing. I got out of bed and walked around, looked out of my large window at the small italian street then got back in bed [...]


as i looked through all the writing i had written in the past five years i was of course nauseated but i felt something that i didn’t know i would feel: a complete lack of connectedness with my own words…
there were hundreds of lines on love and lust; lots of heat coming from the earth, [...]


oh limp unimpressive world, i can’t eat the food on your shelves. i’m convinced i have to become something recognizably extraordinary or i will melt, flatten, pan-cake style, the ability to contort and twist ripped from my form–
little balloons deflating in my stomach, like infant lungs taken under a rolling pin. and [...]