Curling and cancer.

I accidentally pulled out some eyelashes today.

A year ago
today
I donated bone marrow.

I hope I get a good phone call
soon.

Happy

I want you to be happy,
I do.
But more than anything
I want to be
the cause of happiness
in you.

Good morning Toby.

At 6 this morning,
my dog started barking.
I let him outside,
only to find
3 chickens
in our yard,
and him running
furiously at them
and away from my house.

So, I started screaming
and running after him
for fear of him either
killing and eating someone
or him running into the road.
I didn't even have time
to put shoes
or pants-
on, before I ran
over pine cones
and gravel.

Ah, bumblefuck living.

I don't want to be alone anymore.


Every second
it's there.

2002

In seventh grade,
at my birthday party in a hotel
in the dells,
my best friend met
a boy
named Phil
from Texas.

He was very sweet,
with a southern drawl.

She instantly fell in love
with him.
Well, whatever love is
at that age.

However,
she knew
she would never see him
again.

She was crushed.
She didn't even want to smile.

So,
we decided that night,
to make a pact with another girl,
that the three of us
would not get boyfriends, or
fall in love,
until we all could at the same time.
So no one would feel excluded or invalid.

This week I found out she is pregnant.

Why facebook sucks.

Fell asleep with my window open,
woke up to an inevitability
I'd hope I wouldn't have to see
in my news feed.

A Jam For Every Hour

Yesterday,
I searched for a mix CD
that was hidden for me
in a book about Treehouses
in the Milwaukee Public Library.

I'm glad,
impressed,
relieved,
that there is still some
clandestine idealism
in this world.

On a different note:
I wish he wouldn't kiss her
in front of me.