February 2012
5 posts
January 2012
10 posts
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POEM: A Rushing in the Ears Unto Death
A Rushing in the Ears Unto Death
Susurrus, you fleeting glimpse of dashing ear with salty shake a sliver of caress and yes. You sideswipe my sense of sound like the Doppler of a siren passing—pitch inflecting ambulance grief with more urgency than that rushing blare implies while still.
The tintinnabulation of my grandmother’s chimes intertwined with my impression of regeneration, spring...
Christian values
autumninmichigan:
Whenever people say that we need to return to our Christian values I’m like, “Yes! We should totally help the poor and love people unconditionally and preserve God’s Earth just like Christ taught us.”
And then they’re all, “No, I mean we should hate the gays.”
I know we haven’t met, but I love you. Fucking brilliant.
Fuck.
December 2011
22 posts
My desire to marry Ryan Gosling is being severely affected by how violent drive is.
POEM: The Interconnected Rages →
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POEM: The Interconnected Rages
The Interconnected Rages
My anger sketches out the landscape an architect of scratchy twigs and jagged lines (I feel something deeper than need and thus unnameable) insistence I have a big thing to say. To winter even the least of my worries—insurmountable.
Slicker than a seal looks, oily, black like crude-soaked down.
My weeping robs its tears from famine victims whose breaths billow a...
Anonymous asked: I am so sorry about Keith. I wish something could have been done to prevent this from happening. May you find comfort in your loss.
This mall is a living nightmare.
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Mostly unrelated
pdxtogo:
Garfield is still the least funny comic.
What about Family Circus?
I prefer to think of J.K. Rowling as an...
I'll be home for Christmas...
In Montana. Safe and sound. Man it’s been a fucked up couple months. Maybe I’ll tell you about it sometime.
TOO HIGH TO DIE
For realz, yo.
Expecting to be sedated by professionals soon. At McDONALD’S IN HELL
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The things I MUST do in order to live a happy...
1. I have to open my eyes to and fully appreciate the staggeringly overwhelming beauty of the world every single day.
2. I have to comply with my methadone maintenance program.
3. I have to keep all appointments for mental health, including 1-on-1 counseling, psychiatrist (as in prescribing) appts, group therapy sessions, anything and everything they ask of me, starting with my intake...
robisreal asked: How's it going?
November 2011
16 posts
People are so mean and it makes me want to cry.
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Keith drowned in my bathtub today.: A Poem
Keith drowned in my bathtub today. Ross Robbins
in memory of Keith McClung b. October 18th, 1978 d. October 5th, 2011
Corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur -Tacitus
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Cracked linoleum, cat litter. Panic. Bathtub yellowed, brown hair drifting, Floating, fetal and dead. Keith drowned in my bathtub today.
A white can of duster (Keith ...
Why does Trimet dispatch 1-car trains at rush hour?! #FFFUUUUU
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Grief; The Days Coagulating One Into the Next (A...
Grief; The Days Coagulating One Into The Next
Ross Robbins
I work at my wailing, my daily occupation. Riding the light-rail, a ghost bike slips past. Its placard inseminates blood with quickening, The rider’s putrefaction wets the soil. Proteins unzip, My dead friend melts elsewhere.
I murmur, I breathe myself to sleep, My blanket fleeces these feelings with a softening touch. Blue skies...
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The Burning Monk (a poem)
The Burning Monk By Ross Robbins
1. (Mortality; How easy, forgetting.) This explosion is looking for its place to happen. The way my fist uncurls, you think: One day the sun will burst bottle of whiteout, spilled, washing ink this inevitable erasure, this force. And not even that long, really, our leaves bud lush, turn to fireworks, then the scuff of my sole, gritty, in the end it hardly even...
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Slutty girl on MAX obviously dying for attention. #DaddyIssues
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soylenth replied to your photo: Apathy just woke up on my belly :-)
Apathy is a pretty awesome name for a cat btw :) Jealous I didn’t think of it first.
Thanks :-) A couple years back, I remember telling a friend that Apathy would make a beautiful name for a girl—if only it had a different definition! But when I got my beautiful kitten, I decided to take the word and re-frame it. So now,...
