Death comes for us all (a melodramatic haiku of retirement)
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no longer where it is at.
Onwards! (Back to home.)



guts and garters

It's all fun and games until someone loses molecular cohesion.

Tuesday, August 13, 2002

(Swiped off the aus.culture.gothic newsgroup for time-wasting purposes.)

Wearing: Chocolate brown drapery.
Appreciating: Being back in my own space.
Observing: The no-smoking sign.
Hearing: Nothing but my fingers on the keys.
Remembering: All the things I should be doing.
Calculating: How long it will be before Jen comes back.
Eating: Nothing, and my stomach is grumbling about it.
Reading: Perfume, an oddity of a novel.
Inhabiting: My own personal world of hurt.
Learning: That maybe I am going to have to grow up.
Enduring: The fuckwits that people the world.
Drinking: Not yet.
Believing: In faeries.
Avenging: That's far too active a verb for my state.
Deciding: To finish chapter one by the end of next week.
Beginning: Chapter one.
Abhoring: The whole concept of a thesis.
Concluding: The phase in my life when I have any free time except what I steal from myself.
Distrusting: The calendar.
Loving: The possibilities beyond the void.
Attending: To my skincare regime.
Noticing: That some things aren't as hard as they look.
Discussing: Living arrangements and the souls of buildings.
Imagining: Living in modern Victorian splendour.
Enjoying: The moment.
Feeling: Like it's all slipping away from me.
Dreading: It doing just that.
Lending: Other peoples' books.
Entering: Into negotiations with God for an extension.
Admiring: Architecture.
Destroying: My gastro-intestinal tract.
Leaving: Behind a mess.
Denying: That any of it was my fault.
Approaching: Warp velocity.
Buying: New sunglasses, because I left the old ones on the bus.
Singing: Inside my head with Paul Dempsey.
Admitting: That I've fucked up here.
Protecting: Myself from myself.
Avoiding: Actually doing any work.
Changing: My mind. Numerous times.
Awaiting: The laundry being free, so I can wash my socks.
Modifying: The wording of every sentence at least three times.
Regretting: Letting the time/words slip away.
Chasing: The perfect moment.
Shedding: Ghouls.
Borrowing: Books, music, ideas, patience.
Craving: Coffee!
Watching: My fingers turning slowly blue.
Expecting: Myself to come up with some clever answer; I usually do.
Despising: Myself for continually doing this. Will I never learn?

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