Russian Dolls

There’s a three second pause after each sentence

As the words sink through the layers

Every reaction filters back for the right effect.

Three layers down I’m watching every feeling

slide through my skins in an osmotic fashion.

There’s a peace at the core of myselves

Knowing that there are controls, safeties,

nothing will randomly go off

nothing will slide through the cracks

No matter what the reaction may be

I’m safe inside–the devastating effects

of joy and sorrow, the power of vulnerability

will never surface past the outer doll.

You will never get in.

Now I can tell you that this is some of the biggest cheese I’ve written in a while, but it’s why I put it out here–so you can see the work in progress and redline it as you see fit.  I’m ballsy, I know.  Just remember–some of the greatest works started as juvenile shit.

Vocal

Once again the posting bug hits me, but since I last wrote on this site, things have changed.  There’s a Facebook, a Twitter, and all sorts of other crap out there that facilitates communication.  The world is networked–at least the first world is, and if you look at Iran, you could say a whole Hell of a lot of the world is as well. With my impending departure from Kaplan, you can say that I’m networked more than ever.

What you say?  Someone set us up the bomb? Leaving Kaplan? How could that BE?  Well, it’s a long story, frought with pain and betrayal, shame and rage, Snickers and Doritos.  But anyone who’s anyone that knows me knows that I haven’t been happy at that job in a long time.  It just consumed more and more of my life and time, until I was functioning for Kaplan and the rest existed to preserve my sanity.  But NO MORE!

As of 8/1, I’m a free man.  What am I moving on to?  I’m not sure yet.  But I’m working on that.  It’s got to be better than this.

I’m going to add my editorials to this page, along with poetry.  See, it all fits in a pattern.  Twitter and Facebook exist for the play-by-play, the moment to moment action of the day.  Both are ways to stay in touch with me during the day and see what the fuck I’m up to–but they’re not heavy on the content.  This blog is the content site.  This is where the poetry, the long rants, the videos, all the good stuff–this is where all that goes.   If you want the more hardcore details, this is where you look.  I’m going to try to link everything so that you can float from one of my sites to another with ease, and get what you’re looking for easily.  But for those periods where you have time to spare, this is the place to go.

Read on, gentle reader.