I've been praying all the week through
At home, at work and on the bus
I've been praying I can keep you
And to earn enough for us
I can take humiliation
And hurtful comments from the boss
I'm just praying by the weekend
I can earn enough for us
Found a house that won't repair itself
With it's windows cracking
And a roof held together with holes
Just because we're on the bottom of the ladder
We shouldn't be sadder
Than others like us
Who have goals
for the betterment of life
Glad that you want to be my wife, but honest
I've been praying all the week through
At home at work and on the bus
I've been praying I can keep you
And to earn enough for us
-"Earn Enough For Us"
XTC, Skylarking
Thursday, October 13, 2016
We Shouldn't Be Sadder...
Friday, April 15, 2016
And Eternity Near...
Ten years ago
on a cold dark night
There was someone killed
'neath the town hall light
There were few at the scene
but they all agree
That the slayer who ran
looked a lot like me.
The judge said, "Son
what is your alibi?
If you were somewhere else
then you won't have to die."
I spoke not a word
though it meant my life
For I had been in the arms
of my best friend's wife.
She walks these hills
in a long black veil
She visits my grave
when the night winds wail
Nobody knows
nobody sees
Nobody knows
but me.
The scaffold's high
and eternity near
She stood in the crowd
and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night
when the cold wind blows
In a long black veil
she cries o'er my bones.
-"Long Black Veil"
Lefty Frizzell
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Slurdge Squickle...
There's three things you need to know about me before we can begin:
1) I do not have sex dreams. Which isn't to say that I don't have sexy dreams. It's just that the actual acts of sex never manage to happen in the dream. I've had many, many dreams where I'm about to have sex; more than I could count, in fact. But something always interrupts at the last possible second, and the dream then flows on to something else, and I wake the next morning and remember almost having sex the night before. (I've always assumed the reason for this to be that there is just something about the act of having sex that my mind simply cannot recreate for me, and knowing this, it always comes up with some last-minute coitus interruptus to avoid having to cross that particular body-mind barrier.) I have never had a "wet" dream.
2) Far more than any other form of art, entertainment, or media, graphic depictions of rape disturb and upset me. I can watch graphic, bloody, violent horror movies all night every night and not be disturbed in the slightest. But the second a dramatic movie suddenly veers into a rape scene, I know I will be having nightmares and disturbing daytime fugues for the next week. It doesn't have to be violent; it just has to be forced sex. I don't know why I respond this way. I was not raped as a child (far from it, I was sexually adventurous), nor as an adult for that matter, nor have I ever witnessed anyone actually being raped. But something about forcing sex onto someone against their will, something about twisting that highest of all loves and pleasures to its darkest apotheosis, repulses and scars me every single time I experience it. Every single time in my life that I have encountered graphic rape scenes in movies, or read them in books, I have become very upset and traumatized. For several days, or weeks, I will have a hard time getting the images out of my mind. And I will feel sad and scared and small every time I have to see them in my head again, almost as if I am reliving this moment - this fictional moment that did not actually happen to anyone at all, much less to myself. As if I am trapped in my own fictional hell.
3) I am currently reading Moore's Neonomicon. Some of you will understand the significance of this. The rest of you are lucky.
+ + +
Last night I dreamt that I was attending the upcoming national moot (chaos magickian retreat). Late one night, after a long, hard day of black magick, I went back upstairs to my hotel room to go to sleep. I found my roommate waiting for me there, getting ready for bed herself. She was young (and she looked a lot younger even than she was, almost disturbingly so), blonde, very pale skin. To my waking mind now, I do not believe I had ever seen this person before, and as far as I am aware, she is entirely ephemeral. But in the dream, she was a close friend of mine; perhaps a temple-mate. So the familiar, intimate, affectionate ways we touched as we orbited each other around the hotel room getting ready for bed, did not seem unusual or in any way out-of-the-ordinary for us.
But something changed this time. Somehow, the friendly affection we showed one another began to feel deeper, and more intense. Being unafraid of the other's touch suddenly became wanting to be touched. I don't know how it was communicated, but we both knew we wanted each other, and we knew it was going to happen now.
There was holding, and cuddling, and running of hands along outlines of form. Layers began to get peeled off. Bare flesh was marveled at, and taken by the handful. Our mouths grew sore from kissing. My eyes were closed but I could see and my fingers were inside her and I could feel the wetheat on my fingers hands wrists arms legs and
We were in the water now - dark water dark night where?
A swimming pool, it seems. After hours. All the lights off, water black, can't see the bottom can't see ourselves. We're not swimming. We're floating upright. No need to swim, the water holds us up like gentle caressing hands of Mother. It is warm.
We're completely naked, this girl and I, wrapping arms and legs around each other in the dark water. I can feel myself throbbing against her under the water. I can feel her licking me all over under the water, while I am holding her and kissing her and running my hands all over her.
Suddenly, she takes a fistful of my hair and then slips me inside of her. After, there is not the usual motions, no thrusting, no rocking back and forth. We are not fucking. She is pressed against me, sucking me. I can feel her undulations as she sucks me inside of her, rippling up and down the length of me. The pleasure of this sensation is indescribable. I look down and can see through the water clear as glass at the mouth that is surrounding me, pursing lips sucking up and down. Please understand, this is not hyperbole or poetic license in my description - what I saw was not a vulva, it was a mouth.
I looked up from this scene of mounting horror to find her young, beautiful face now leering at me with an impossibly wide smile, and black eyes of terror madness. At the same time, I felt the will to resist being drained from me, as the astoundingly pleasurable sensations emanating from our conjoined bodies suddenly intensified beyond anything I had ever known. I recall the sensation of licking tongues caressing my entire sex all over; wand and orbs inside and outside, it was the Hell of All Flesh.
I wanted to scream, but her tongues were in my mouth down my throat, writhing fat worms, wrapping my tongue, stroking it sucking it. I felt tongues sliding along under me, caressing and licking the underside black door searching for purchase finding entrance. Licking me opening me impaling me gods pleasure fire fear I can still hear the sounds as they plunged in and out of me still feel the fire fire gods heat no no no no
I remember wanting to fight her, to stop her, to scream, anything. But I couldn't make my body respond at all. The pleasure was overwhelming to the point of paralysis. The last image I saw, as we began to descend beneath the still surface of the water, was our bodies' intersection, one last time. It was a star. Or had become a star. Her occulted mouth had split open eight ways from center - each ray of flesh a prehensile tongue that squicked and squiggled around my naked body, wrapping me and pulling me and licking me and draining me and taking me down down down and in the center of that eight-rayed star of inhuman flesh, a pink, pulsating mouth, with row upon row of concentric rings of tiny pink tentacle teeth, sucking me down, pulling me in, eating me raw, draining the nuclear fire from my very atoms, returning me to the black void of the bottomless unending sea.
+ + +
It must be Spring.
1) I do not have sex dreams. Which isn't to say that I don't have sexy dreams. It's just that the actual acts of sex never manage to happen in the dream. I've had many, many dreams where I'm about to have sex; more than I could count, in fact. But something always interrupts at the last possible second, and the dream then flows on to something else, and I wake the next morning and remember almost having sex the night before. (I've always assumed the reason for this to be that there is just something about the act of having sex that my mind simply cannot recreate for me, and knowing this, it always comes up with some last-minute coitus interruptus to avoid having to cross that particular body-mind barrier.) I have never had a "wet" dream.
2) Far more than any other form of art, entertainment, or media, graphic depictions of rape disturb and upset me. I can watch graphic, bloody, violent horror movies all night every night and not be disturbed in the slightest. But the second a dramatic movie suddenly veers into a rape scene, I know I will be having nightmares and disturbing daytime fugues for the next week. It doesn't have to be violent; it just has to be forced sex. I don't know why I respond this way. I was not raped as a child (far from it, I was sexually adventurous), nor as an adult for that matter, nor have I ever witnessed anyone actually being raped. But something about forcing sex onto someone against their will, something about twisting that highest of all loves and pleasures to its darkest apotheosis, repulses and scars me every single time I experience it. Every single time in my life that I have encountered graphic rape scenes in movies, or read them in books, I have become very upset and traumatized. For several days, or weeks, I will have a hard time getting the images out of my mind. And I will feel sad and scared and small every time I have to see them in my head again, almost as if I am reliving this moment - this fictional moment that did not actually happen to anyone at all, much less to myself. As if I am trapped in my own fictional hell.
3) I am currently reading Moore's Neonomicon. Some of you will understand the significance of this. The rest of you are lucky.
+ + +
Last night I dreamt that I was attending the upcoming national moot (chaos magickian retreat). Late one night, after a long, hard day of black magick, I went back upstairs to my hotel room to go to sleep. I found my roommate waiting for me there, getting ready for bed herself. She was young (and she looked a lot younger even than she was, almost disturbingly so), blonde, very pale skin. To my waking mind now, I do not believe I had ever seen this person before, and as far as I am aware, she is entirely ephemeral. But in the dream, she was a close friend of mine; perhaps a temple-mate. So the familiar, intimate, affectionate ways we touched as we orbited each other around the hotel room getting ready for bed, did not seem unusual or in any way out-of-the-ordinary for us.
But something changed this time. Somehow, the friendly affection we showed one another began to feel deeper, and more intense. Being unafraid of the other's touch suddenly became wanting to be touched. I don't know how it was communicated, but we both knew we wanted each other, and we knew it was going to happen now.
There was holding, and cuddling, and running of hands along outlines of form. Layers began to get peeled off. Bare flesh was marveled at, and taken by the handful. Our mouths grew sore from kissing. My eyes were closed but I could see and my fingers were inside her and I could feel the wetheat on my fingers hands wrists arms legs and
We were in the water now - dark water dark night where?
A swimming pool, it seems. After hours. All the lights off, water black, can't see the bottom can't see ourselves. We're not swimming. We're floating upright. No need to swim, the water holds us up like gentle caressing hands of Mother. It is warm.
We're completely naked, this girl and I, wrapping arms and legs around each other in the dark water. I can feel myself throbbing against her under the water. I can feel her licking me all over under the water, while I am holding her and kissing her and running my hands all over her.
Suddenly, she takes a fistful of my hair and then slips me inside of her. After, there is not the usual motions, no thrusting, no rocking back and forth. We are not fucking. She is pressed against me, sucking me. I can feel her undulations as she sucks me inside of her, rippling up and down the length of me. The pleasure of this sensation is indescribable. I look down and can see through the water clear as glass at the mouth that is surrounding me, pursing lips sucking up and down. Please understand, this is not hyperbole or poetic license in my description - what I saw was not a vulva, it was a mouth.
I looked up from this scene of mounting horror to find her young, beautiful face now leering at me with an impossibly wide smile, and black eyes of terror madness. At the same time, I felt the will to resist being drained from me, as the astoundingly pleasurable sensations emanating from our conjoined bodies suddenly intensified beyond anything I had ever known. I recall the sensation of licking tongues caressing my entire sex all over; wand and orbs inside and outside, it was the Hell of All Flesh.
I wanted to scream, but her tongues were in my mouth down my throat, writhing fat worms, wrapping my tongue, stroking it sucking it. I felt tongues sliding along under me, caressing and licking the underside black door searching for purchase finding entrance. Licking me opening me impaling me gods pleasure fire fear I can still hear the sounds as they plunged in and out of me still feel the fire fire gods heat no no no no
I remember wanting to fight her, to stop her, to scream, anything. But I couldn't make my body respond at all. The pleasure was overwhelming to the point of paralysis. The last image I saw, as we began to descend beneath the still surface of the water, was our bodies' intersection, one last time. It was a star. Or had become a star. Her occulted mouth had split open eight ways from center - each ray of flesh a prehensile tongue that squicked and squiggled around my naked body, wrapping me and pulling me and licking me and draining me and taking me down down down and in the center of that eight-rayed star of inhuman flesh, a pink, pulsating mouth, with row upon row of concentric rings of tiny pink tentacle teeth, sucking me down, pulling me in, eating me raw, draining the nuclear fire from my very atoms, returning me to the black void of the bottomless unending sea.
+ + +
It must be Spring.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Love's Hallows All...
In the cold November night
She had given us a fright
So we ran arm-in-arm away
Running towards forgotten days
And the sorrow of that
woe-begotten light
We had told her what we'd done
And she'd said I'm not her son
Then we'd bolted out the door
Left your bootprints on the floor
And were gone before she'd
leveled out the gun
The shots rang high and loud
And I swear that we were proud
To have made the Beast so pissed
To be the Devils atop her list
Of all the evil Hell hath spat
on this gray shroud
Into the Night we ran and played
For we had met our Judgement Day
Burned it down with light and love
Killed the monster, came the dove
And forever on we knew
we'd have our say
There's no one could tell us "No"
If our Way wound to or fro
Our life at last was ours to live
And Death our gift to give
So we'd return for her at sign
of year's first snow
And return for her we did
Deep in the cellar where she'd hid
Her thrusting cross and sobbing loud
"In Jesus' name I cast you out!"
For all the good that useless
trinket never did
She wept and screamed and prayed
Hoping she'd at last be saved
From this night that wouldn't end
And her faith that wouldn't bend
And these children with their teeth
like razor blades
We ripped and tore and fed
While she cried and shat and bled
Until her flesh began to cool
Her life now just a crimson pool
Puddled under her like Satan's
marriage bed
We left her there on that stone floor
Behind us closed and locked the door
Our mother's blood across your face
Looked to me a veil of lace
In all our endless life I've never
loved you more
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Genetics...
At the Great Frederick Fair, there is a tent down by the tractor displays that sells old-fashioned candies.
And every year, I go there and buy a roll of Butter Rum-flavored Lifesavers, because they remind me of you. You used to keep a roll in your car, and sometimes you would give me one, and so they remind me of you. The version of you that raised me, and loved me, and schooled me hard, and whom I thought of as Father, with all the meek adoration of an ascetic at the feet of his Creator.
As silly as it sounds, I have to get them every year, and I love them, and would be wounded if I couldn't find them, because those little sweet rings of amber candy remind me - they remind me that I am your son.
And every year, I go there and buy a roll of Butter Rum-flavored Lifesavers, because they remind me of you. You used to keep a roll in your car, and sometimes you would give me one, and so they remind me of you. The version of you that raised me, and loved me, and schooled me hard, and whom I thought of as Father, with all the meek adoration of an ascetic at the feet of his Creator.
As silly as it sounds, I have to get them every year, and I love them, and would be wounded if I couldn't find them, because those little sweet rings of amber candy remind me - they remind me that I am your son.
Friday, June 26, 2015
A Great Day In America...
So proud of my country today. We are one step closer to becoming that nation we always believe ourselves to be. It's a good feeling.
And it's a strange feeling. I'm suddenly all-too aware today of how rare a moment like this is. The good guys won. People's inherent humanity has been recognized, and enshrined into our law. The evil has been banished from the land. It feels like it should ALWAYS be like this. But it almost never is.
Sorry to be so melancholy about it. I'm really ecstatic, truly. Just wish we could feel this more often.
We are a better nation now - a better people - than we were yesterday.
Here is hoping, sincerely, profoundly, that the trend continues.
#LoveWins
And it's a strange feeling. I'm suddenly all-too aware today of how rare a moment like this is. The good guys won. People's inherent humanity has been recognized, and enshrined into our law. The evil has been banished from the land. It feels like it should ALWAYS be like this. But it almost never is.
Sorry to be so melancholy about it. I'm really ecstatic, truly. Just wish we could feel this more often.
We are a better nation now - a better people - than we were yesterday.
Here is hoping, sincerely, profoundly, that the trend continues.
#LoveWins
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Her Heart's Apocalypse...
She's
an extraordinary girl
In an ordinary world
And she can't seem to get away
He
lacks the courage in his mind
Like a child left behind
Like a pet left in the rain
She's all alone again
Wiping the tears from her eyes
Some days he feels like dying
She gets so sick of crying
She
sees the mirror of herself
An image she wants to sell
To anyone willing to buy
He
steals the image in her kiss
From her heart's apocalypse
From the one called Whatsername
She's all alone again
Wiping the tears from her eyes
Some days he feels like dying
She gets so sick of crying
She's all alone again
Wiping the tears from her eyes
Some days he feels like dying
Some days it's not worth trying
Now that they both are finding
She gets so sick of crying
She's
an extraordinary girl
an extraordinary girl
-"Extraordinary Girl"
Green Day, American Idiot
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