Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Stand By Me (Ode to my Cuz)


They say misery loves company. When I'm miserable I don't want to see anyone's face and that's the truth. I rather just wallow in it till it disappears I mean...Why would I want anyone to accompany me, when someone was the one who usually caused my misery.
People suck.
They lie.
Cheat.
Steal.
"Smile in your face...all the time they want to take your place"
Have alterior motives...
They can be fake
And whenever I encounter these things it makes me miserable...I am a person and I'm probably guilty of everything on that list..so I'm a miserable hyprocrite..whatever I don't care.

I guess this is some kind of ode to my cuz ("Jessica" I'll call her)., How gay. But...I remember that summer I liked this kid, Jarred's not his real name but that's the I'll use.
(Quick note about Jarred and my cousins. They idolized him, they loved going to his house and hanging out with him, they thought he was so cool. Especially Jessica, my younger cuz)
So we're at his front door once again because he lived right down the street and, I'm teasing him about the moths and other critters on his house and my older cuz "Debbie" asks Jarred for a kiss. Meaning a hershey kiss, but she knew what the hell she was doing. And everybody knew there was a little something something going on between me and Jarred but Debbie didn't care. So my cuz asks for this kiss and Jarred kisses her on the cheek. And I'm like hold up, waite a minute, let me think about what you just did here. Debbie was elated, smiling her teeth off and I'm like...Jarred, so you're just going to just dip into my family like that?? And he looks like... what? Did I do something wrong? So I get "upset" not really, kinda pretend mad and I tell him he's a jerk etc...and he turns to Jessica to ask if she was mad at him too, and Jessica...I'll never forget this, turned her back on him and didn't say a word. Jarred was once her idol but now..he was the jerk that I proclaimed he was. Because she. had. my. back. And so we turned our backs on him together, and my older cuz Debbie, just went skipping on the way home in joy. And me and Jessica walked home, side by side.

That's the thing about Jessica...it's like, she wants to see me happy. No matter what. She's taught me how to be happy for other people...I wonder if she knows that? No matter what I do, she thinks it's the greatest thing in the world. When somebody makes me sad, she doesn't like that person...she turns her back right there with me. I showed her a picture of my ex's ex girlfriend We both know the girl is cute...or maybe I just think so...but without saying a world...only because she knows what I've gone through with my ex, this girl becomes the ugliest, bitchiest person she has ever seen. The first thing that comes out of her mouth is "She's looks evil...[shakes her head] bitch" and I laugh because she knows that's what I want to hear. She knows the girl isn't that bad...but she instantly bashes her to make me feel better.

Our bond is so strong and it's funny because I don't really know why. Because my Older cousin...I love her to death but I would turn my back on anyone who upset her but she wouldn't do the same for me and that's okay with me, I still love her and would stand by her if she really needed me. But with Jessica...it's almost instant, no words need to be exchanged, I tell her "so and so" pissed me off and she's right there going through it with me. Maybe that will change through time, maybe when she get's older that bond might disappear...but I will NEVER forget many times that she stood by me.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

False Paradise



Thoughts running faster than the mind
Running into actions to quick to decide
Decisions arrived before anyone understood why
And the sun was sooo warm on the false paradise.
They sipped Caronas everything was nice...
Water so blue
Skin so silky to the touch
Love guided his fingers tips
to her hips
and her eyes said forever in the artificial breeze
The sand was a sham but they didn't mind
It comforted their backs in the false paradise
And in the distance you could see the truth...
and in the distance she could see...
But it didn't matter their hearts always knew
The sky wouldn't always be blue


Sometimes it'll be purple...in this pic I found

I was talking to a guy, and he said "false paradise" and I was like oh my goodness I should make a poem about that. and I did.

Sunday, August 13, 2006

There's a part in the animated film "Madagascar" when the lion get's to the island and he realizes that he's not longer in the city zoo and that there's not going to to anyone serving him a streak for breakfast lunch and dinner and He looks down at the animal community and all of a sudden everyone looks like a steak, even his best friends.

I've been single for 8 months. I work at a place with mostly guys. Everybody looks like a...steak.

Before the semester ended I went into the quick stop market that's on campus and bought sushi and a drink. I go up to the counter and the girl's just yapping away with some guy. I push my stuff up to the scanner to give her a head start. She only scans the sushi, I push up the drink a little more..maybe she didn't see it. She still doesn't scan it, I got a free drink.