Technical Writing & Random Thoughts

 

Old (& not particularly good) Poetry


The Brutality of Youth - The First Words :1991-1994
Vanity - Product of a Public Education :1995-1998
The Resident Muse - The Coffeehouse Era :1999-2000
Post Education - The Hardcore Haze :2001-2002
Overworked - Reflections On A Lesser Existence :2003-2006
Daily Missives - The Poem of the Day Collection :2005-2007
Sweet Dreams And Other Fictions :2008-

 

27 Reasons to Quit Smiling

I'm sick of caring...
I'm sick of worrying what you think.
I'm sick of spending my days
trying to be who you want me to be.
I'm tired of watching my steps for you.

Me and my ratty hair 
and my spiked collars and bracelets, 
Me and my torn too long pants,
and my evil smirks...
I'm tired of being little miss innocent
Tired of being your baby.

I want to be this, 
I want to be her with every bit of passion in me.
I don't want to be your sweet Arian prized possession.
I don't want to be your beautiful darling girl.
I want to be me.

I want to run around and make people stare
and hurt myself in a mosh pit
just to get the tension that you cause off my chest
I want to listen to that.... "that isn't music, that's noise"
I like it that way...
the louder they scream, the more beautiful it is.

I can't be violent, 
I can't be mean, 
I can't be careless...
but at least I can be who I am
and look violent, 
and seem mean, 
and act careless once and a while.

I just want to be me.

 









Before I Do
A Place With Shade
A World Without Glitter
Adam, Eve, and an Ill Fated Apple
Aftermath
All of Our Words
At Least I Still Have The Phone Numbers
Bad Drug
Being Infinite
Better Than This
Cold
Comprehensive
Conspiracy
A Farewell To Firesigns
Don't Tell Me How I'm Supposed to Fall
Down The 3rd Step to the Basement
Drive
Forget About Being Cool
Isn't It Obvious?
Different Than Mine
We Weren't Meant to Fly
I Am Only An Architect
Cotillion
I Know This Now
I Take This All
One Half Hour
Fatal Miscalculation
Mail-Order Life
fallacy
More Than I Deserve
My House
My World
One Girl Left Standing
Playing to Die
Please Stop Pushing Now
Recycled
Ritual
Soap Opera Life
From One, To The Other
Something Else Inspiring
From Far Away Places
Spitting Fire
Intersection
The Real Me
The Roomie
Waking Alone
Unforsaken
This, In Itself
Expectation
Underscore_Hate_Underscore
This One Is Untitled
Urbanized
... Is Fullness