May 2011
if you like music similar to Kind of Like Spitting, or Kevin Devine, then check out this emerging songwriter, Grey Gordon. It’s very beautifully straight-forward music.
magnets caught in a metal heart
by Thursday
“She spins magnetic rings Around the dark violet heart of god She’s a magnetic field, Shower of sparks, When she comes on. There’s a silent charge In a coil of wire When the currents pass right through it. We’re coupled lines in lightning strikes, We jump like birds on a vine. We’re the magnets caught in a metal heart Where the blood is pumping through...
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
– Edgar Allan Poe (via lipsticksmiles)
2000
remember my youth riding in cars at night relieving my mind to the mercy of your driving speakers bellowed loud over the strobe of streetlights that baptized my face with the glory of escape the righteous freedom that pulsed in my teenage heart a freedom i rediscover now in fleeting moments as an escaping passenger in getaway cars i need that again now from time to time to anchor feet in cluttered...
piled
it’s better
to know me through image/word
rather than from across
a room.
i have the habit
of making consistent mistakes.
they expire daily
on top of each other
and form a thick barricade
of bad moods
and questions without answers
until there is so much ‘fuck you’
piled up that eyes could never meet mine
losing
i can win with anyone
except you,
with you
i can’t.
it’s not me
it’s not me
just a person
that stings
your sensitive advances
i cause reproach
by polluted stream
of words in error
my thorned speak
breaks akward jagged
ruck up gash
and closes your eyes
to my misinterpreted
non-ulterior dumbness
i am stricken slow
with this stupid mouth
that helps me
find...
GIRLS + TUMBLR = worst thing to happen to the internet
drowned
ugly man
with a curse
upon
his back
and a wound
wrapped up
in his heart
he said to stay away
with his eyes and calm silence
his cracked hands
held low
waited
on his thighs
long since they felt the contact
of the full moon white skin
softness of a woman
so long since
youthful spark of eyes
first learned his face
he looked like a...