Semiotic Ghost

Interstellar Travel

Transmitter — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:58:26 +0000

I unknowingly carried a tiny house ant home with me. Together we traveled approximately four and a half miles. For me the trip was short and inconsequential. For the ant the trip was 2,280,960 times the length of his body. Considering this distance from the ant’s perspective, I’ve concluded that our most logical course for interstellar travel is to hitch a ride on a much larger being.

Numbness as Warning

Transmitter — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:41:13 +0000

It was like he was plugged into an electrical current,
twitching, jerking, tranced out in a shaken frenzy,
receiving magnetic transmissions of mimetic themes,

Sound wave patterns on the scanner–

Darkly melodic to the rhythm of white fists,
flashing out of his black overcoat,
a new stage trance, seizing out of the car onto the ground–

“We didn’t know what to do. We held him down.”

Love tore him apart.

Identity Crisis

Transmitter — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:07:10 +0000

I spent an inordinate amount of time at the DMV trying to prove my identity.

Now I have three identities. Meanwhile, facebook just told a friend of mine that her identity is fake.

Tendrils

Transmitter — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:45:36 +0000

Sucking on tendrils,
Drugs tentacle around them.
A warm squeeze, cold blood.

Busy

Transmitter — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:51:34 +0000

I’ve been busy looking up random people’s addresses in the phone book and sending them apology letters.

Sorry.

Ode to “Her Lips Are Copper Wire”

Transmitter — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:26:00 +0000

My neighbor’s electric bill ended up in my mail by mistake. I was going to personally return it to her, use it as an excuse to start a conversation.

But, now she just got home at 3 in the morning and I hear a guy’s voice. Whore. Let me know how those late fees feel.

Now I lie. Me, down to sleep.

Transmitter — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:03:01 +0000

No one has noticed at work. Nobody knows even though it’s been happening for months. It hasn’t influenced my walk or my demeanor, my clothes or my hair. I would have told you about it sooner, but you haven’t been around. No one has been around.

It started as an accident at first. I woke up and realized what had happened. Still, I didn’t give it much thought. Each time it happened I had a different excuse: drinking too much, working too much, it’s easier and more convenient. You always told me that I could rationalize anything.

Now I find myself hiding it, shoving the evidence into the closet before people come over. It started when you left. Yes, I blamed it on that, too. I think it’s because you were still in there somewhere. Pieces of you were everywhere, but the epicenter was there– Every night in the darkness and the quiet. All the reminders of you forming together, like some kind of memory Voltron, defender of loneliness.

I’m telling you all of this now, because I haven’t told anyone else.

No. I’m telling you, because I know you won’t listen and I don’t want to stop. I don’t want to stop sleeping on the couch.

Anyway, hope you’re doing well.

Bringing up Fear

Transmitter — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:24:27 +0000

When you’re little you’re afraid of the monsters under your bed. When you get older you have to fear the monsters in your bed.

Fuck It

Transmitter — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:39:58 +0000

My political views. The remix.

I know what you were thinking

Transmitter — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:53:02 +0000

you were staring at your screen so intensley, through it, through my screen. Through my screen and in to me. Laser beams coming out of your eyes. Burning me, but I’m staring intentsley, too. And, I push them back with my own laser beams. Red and blue colliding together inbetween us. I couldn’t do it anymore. I just had to look (up).