June 2009
4 posts
May 2009
22 posts
cellar door
fiftywords:
Unlike Shakespeare claimed of himself, he was born under a rhyming planet. He tied the words off in knots, like a cherry stem under his tongue, lolling out from teeth to palate and back again, like an arrow shot through branches reaching sky, like the words cellar door. Cellar door.
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure...”
– Albert Einstein (via quotedropper)
April 2009
90 posts
“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the...”
– William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
"We Talk" - Jewel Kilcher
We talk
slowly
about nothing
about movies
we stick to
surface streets
and find no
meaning in café windows
no substance in
hotel rooms
I used to unwrap you!
tender layers unfolding
like eager gold
but now
we are cool
and recount
our daily bores
as though
the sum of our
uses
equaled
something...
