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nwal. [27 Jan 2010|09:11pm]
My Dearest,

I forgot to tell you the following:

1.Oh, how I fear this combination of letters had something to do with what was lost in translation.
2.Upon reflection, some nights are not worthy of words.
3.Its the something you don't believe that are the things you can't forget.
For instance, Eve was made out of Adam's rib.
4.Sometimes happiness isn't always the best way to be happy.


This list is just the beginning.

With Love,

Jo
the thorns hid easily in its beauty

writers block part deux [22 Jan 2010|09:31pm]
i envy those who still
drool at the sight of romance
i no longer believe in fairy tales
or happy endings
or true love
or mr(s). right
logic punched the dream straight in the gut
comatose
forever?
maybe.
i want it
you
this
to mean something
maybe make me feel
something
other than
the basics
hungry
tired
cold
i want your eyes to find mine
and for it to matter
i want to draw hearts around your name
etch our initials in some tree in the middle of nowhere
but its all seems so
lame
these days
its as if
any drop of desire
has been (re)placed
with(in) a coffin
made of my bones
3|the thorns hid easily in its beauty

noitroba [06 Jan 2010|12:50pm]
strange how flesh easily transforms itself into
trash
on a nameless street
picked up by a man
who lost his dreams
at an altar back in 1973
those poor pined wings attached to a long lost fetus
still smelling of the regrets
of a one
maybe
two
night stand
the thorns hid easily in its beauty

6:30am is a lonely place [02 Jan 2010|06:33am]
and that is why this entrys empty.
the thorns hid easily in its beauty

what comes first the meaning or the word [22 Nov 2009|05:53pm]
i couldnt find a pen resulting in the use of this virtual journal.
i wish i could say i was miserable, but defining emotion by first thinking of a word is far from authentic. speaking of authenticity is there really such a thing? i find myself capitalizing my I's in emails to my friends. I hate that. i am being re-taught and re-shaped by this institution of graduate school. some would say this is for the best, but this transition fueling some sort of identity crisis. i am so resistant because something feels wrong, but as always i can not pin point whats exactly feels so wrong. maybe its the fact that i am told to refer to people as subjects and my hobbies as research interests. but does changing the form of a word really impede on the meaning?
the thorns hid easily in its beauty

making love in a body bag [26 Oct 2009|09:00pm]
i fuck you in hopes to keep my secrets safe in the folds of your skin
but i fear i know where you go
when your mind holds you hostage

peripherally
i can see your fingers tangled in the remains of her innocence
though you know the only way out
is to fuck her
and i wonder
in the midst of the moment
can your ears
hear the whispers
of my long lost
lies
can she taste my shame on your tongue?


i beg of you to kill the messenger as
our bodies begin to mangle
and in the weight of the ruins
your goosebumps transformed into braille
so we can longer
make love
without feeling confession
and
the misplaced emotions entrenched
in my story
that i tried so hard
to tuck away
in your crevices.
the thorns hid easily in its beauty

dear diary [07 Jun 2009|06:22pm]
i am waiting for someone to pick me up.
we are going to the nine inch nails/jane's addiction concert.
whoot. whoot.
its strange, you know...life.
well its not that its strange, well yeah it is, but a very very familiar type of strange.
i just always thought that finding that one person to share this life with was going to seal the deal or
bring about this ultimate bliss, but its not that way at all.
its more like...you find that one person who is all you have ever looked for in another being and you want
more.
just more.
of what?
i don't know. you just want more.
is this how every culture is?
or is it this blood sucking capitalist whore system that produces such dissatisfaction?
maybe its me. who knows.
not you.
not me.
oh, paul rudd he might know.
i guess what i am trying to say is
the goal is not the reward
nor is the journey
its realizing that maybe just maybe rewards are the last thing you are actually looking for.
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'ello [05 Jun 2009|06:40pm]
never underestimate the strength of the human spirit
the thorns hid easily in its beauty

up your sleeve [25 Jan 2009|06:53pm]
"Why wear the magician hat if you ain't got no tricks?"

"Because I like to take it off to memorize the eyes of those waiting for the rabbit."
1|the thorns hid easily in its beauty

thought determined by language [10 Jan 2009|02:16am]
ancient shapes transform into
symbols which control the fate
of our species
the construction varies
over seas
channels of communication
cut out
and we hear
static
and feel
nothing,
metaphysically
psychologically
emotionally
physically.

thoughts riddle my mind
though i exist
in a world where
expression is inconceivable
words are barriers
elusive walls
between
everything
is
alive

i long for
a language older than words
cocktails of atoms
exchanging
iris to iris
a connection so tight
only threads of silence
can weave
or just
conversations with less
lost in translation
1|the thorns hid easily in its beauty

[07 Jan 2009|12:32pm]
excuse me, sir
i believe you've
let the cat out of the bag
i tattooed your missing flyer
so i would never forget
the reward
or the
combination of numbers
that would lead me
back to you
collars strangle
illusion to give
us an identity
cut the leash my friend
lets find out whats on
the other end

vitals be known
only on the edge
my pulse rests
on tops of mountains

silly fools
freedom is a death sentence
i live in solidarity
through the cuffs of slavery
1|the thorns hid easily in its beauty

children are but the father to man [19 Dec 2008|03:36pm]
we are but seamstresses
fathers tangle their thread
in mothers needles
tying the knot in the midst
of the double helix
1|the thorns hid easily in its beauty

the nina the pinta and the santa maria [19 Dec 2008|04:02am]
the earth shakes
and the room becomes
an x-ray machine
exposing all our dirty little
secrets
imprinted on slides only seen
through certain light
i wrapped my limbs around
the capsule which holds your blood
my hairs get caught on your zippered spine
finally i get to see whats behind
i snuck in through your tailbone
as you came in around my clavicle
our eyes switched colors
and i was able to see
myself through your iris
dilating in a black hole
i began to fall
in
love
with my crooked teeth
and my walk which stumbles
like a child's first steps
you finally got to see
how the lines of your face
are the mirror image
to mine
and we melted in to a puddle
reflecting just how vapid
the human species can be
1|the thorns hid easily in its beauty

meaningless caught within the meaningful [18 Dec 2008|04:35am]
wrapped like a wire behind a television
tangled in projected images of what it
means to be alive
but dont you know
the sky was never blue
and clouds are just cotton candy for
the deceased
and when it rains bodies revive
from the underground
i saw it that night
we snuck into the graveyard
i tripped over nancy forgone's
fingers tips as her arms were
reaching up to catch
her cue
running to the car
we close the windows tight
like the ventricles attached
to a lost lover's heart
my tendons hang around
your neck
cutting me loose with
a punch line
the laughter burns our skin
leaving nothing but bones of release
our rib cage collided
echoing the tales
of our mind on trial
being sent to death row
for electifying the lifeless
so our converstation in bars
could be with people less dead
1|the thorns hid easily in its beauty

for you, my love. [13 Dec 2008|05:42pm]
i remember when we bought everything in double
where you were the only one in my life with out trouble
but now you are my nightmare
just teaching me how life will never be fair
you run miles to hide in a lesbian's room
while i open my legs for men in our cacoon
when i hear your footsteps i begin to undress
but soon realize
that you could care less
if i am naked and spread
like peanut butter stains
all over the bed
and i guess there is not much to say
anyway
the dichatomy in our
anatamony
the mind playing
hopskotch in eternity
bodies rot six feet under ground
while we fuck
in cemetires with out making a sound
the thorns hid easily in its beauty

window shopping on 34th st [04 Dec 2008|12:24pm]
i tap on glass
to reach the attention
of a flawless girl
dressed in our cities
perverted perfection
nothing but
a blank
stare
stare
stare
stare
i place my palm on the glass
and mouth
i am sorry
for what this world
has told you
a box with a screen
is a much too powerful
machine
with a shopping window between us
i think of
ways to
remind her
of how beautiful
her freckles formulate
in the summertime
ways to
tell her
the handles wrapped around
her hips are lovely
ways to
tell her
concealer traps life
which radiates crooked
colors that only
run
away from
indubitable beauty
when faced with
the main ingredient
of our existence
water
water
water
water
it begins to rain in my head
so i take both my fists
remembering they are
the size of my heart
i break through
in hopes
to uncage you
bloody fingers
gracing your immaculate
face
while plastic fulls
up my nasal passages
straight to my brain
i begin to realize
no blood runs beneath
your skin
and this skin i feel
is not skin at all
and as i unbutton
your blouse
to find your name
i see nothing
but a sticker
reading
made in china
the thorns hid easily in its beauty

written by aliz n jo [26 Nov 2008|03:57pm]
freedom travels in cages
while the latitude
between our skin
blankets pages
of lust
and
chains
the seeds with knowledgeable
soles
so we pollinate without
envious chords
that wire
a confined melody
which hypothesize
this medicore flow of growth
so lest change the theory

we will blow diamonds
to create a soft wind
braiding our home in protection
from the rays of
warmth just to
see what it
means
to
be
beautiful
1|the thorns hid easily in its beauty

forgive me father for i have sinned [25 Nov 2008|07:08pm]
there is nothing
than i want more
than to hide
in the folds of
your skin
i am beginning to think
i am boneless

you wear magnifying glasses
so i ask you
to help me
find the fucking
equation to aide
in the chemical process
of life
because my body
is not functioning
properly

unlike peter pan
i am unsewing
my shadow

we leave the rooms
smelling like vomit
from spitting out
all the poison we
prayed to
i am on my fucking
knees silently
screaming for
a reason to wake up
its like i am on
a circus tour bus
traveling and feeding
off the innocent
smiles of the American
people

i am magician
with no tricks
and its numbing

i watch you rejoice
in the interconnectedness
of our species
as i quietly
pretend to participate
i am the most
truthful lie
you will ever
lay inside
and when
we fuck
i feel like
i am in
confession
walls with
holes between
us
you keep
pushing in
while
i
keep
pulling
out
2|the thorns hid easily in its beauty

by jokim [25 Nov 2008|07:06pm]
the stars write with
cold green clouds
on people
as shoeless pencils
trash ants
with character
streets hold hand prints of the future
drawn stairs and molded doors
take ship
while the heat of our
fruit
hibernates in it's core
the thorns hid easily in its beauty

dear god [24 Nov 2008|05:43am]
the holy choir sings
using invisible
strings to pull me by
i hear you preach
dance
so i do
but not for you
i strip
under pews
hugging strangers
with my thighs
and
pretend
they are
you

puppet on a string
i don't mind
being strangled
as long as
your
on
the
other
end
1|the thorns hid easily in its beauty

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