el aleph: Archive

Hit or Miss

 Looks like the mist is what's pretty, all gold and silver
 Mmhmm
 Too bad it can't stay like this all the time
 Nothing Gold Can Stay

Dec 31st

I don’t know what there is to haikus besides the # of syllables. Something about a cut word? We don’t have the right punctuation marks. Two parts of a thought? Make reference to the season? Are these rules binding? All this shows is that I can count. Fuck my lack of creativity.

Dec 26th

I spend a lot of time fumbling around with how I want things to look on this and what I want them to say. Do you think when I die I will be judged based oh my secret blogging? Will St. Peter like my likes enough to secure me a spot behind the pearly gates?

Dec 26th

This weather has really been gotten me down.

this grey Chicago reeks havoc, my head a mess. shall it ever end?

Dec 26th

“You turned the whole fifth floor into a motherfuckin’ discoteque.”

– Depaul, Spring ‘07

Dec 26th

Dec 25th

We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon. -Gwendolyn Brooks

Dec 25th

Ani DiFranco - Parameters

Thirty-three years go by And not once do you come home To find a man sitting in your bedroom That is A man you don’t know Who came a long way to deliver one very specific message: Lock your back door, you idiot However invincible you imagine yourself to be You are wrong Thirty-three years go by And you loosen the momentum of teenage nightmares Your breasts hang like a woman’s And you...

Dec 25th

Let’s hear it for cigarettes, baby you were great.

Dec 25th