Sex Ed

Suzanne - Leonard CohenToulouse is watching me, perched on the back of the sofa. He loves Leonard just as I do. But classic Leonard is best. I worked for twelve hours today. I wanted to use these pages to write something terribly clever, and creative, but my face feels like [...]

I woke this morning wanting only coffee. I haven't had any yet. Instead I was led on a journey through the heart and mind of Sylvia Plath. Imagine giving so much of your love and life to a man who will suck the soul right out of you, lie to [...]

Sisters of Mercy - Leonard Cohen On these kinds of nights, when it is in fact the next morning, and when Anne has had far too much to drink, it is always the same. She carefully counts out the cab driver’s tip, mounts the cement stairs to her door, fumbles [...]

And my heart is like a saturated sponge right now, so the tub is where I'll stay.As I imagine my own small, white hands wrapping gently around my ventricles and wringing my pumper free of the weight of so much liquid, I think of you, and of the virtue I [...]

Rainy Night I am sister to the rain;Fey and sudden and unholy,Petulant at the windowpane,Quickly lost, remembered slowly. Dorothy Parker

I love e.e. cummings. I have since I was 18. This poem, which I could never fully grasp, has been winding it's way through my heart all day. My heart is the foot I lead with, by the way. Some people are great with their heads, their minds... I am [...]