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Whitney

About Me

"The imagination depends on words. Words complete our fantasies, fill in their gaps, support their inconsistency, prolong them, enrich them with what cannot be seen or touched." 'Saint Genet' Jean-Paul Satre

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Living

.................. ...... The aches and the pains just wont go away No, I cant seem to get out of my bed today And my brains in a clamp So please shut off the lamp Because I cant...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:04:00 GMT

Delicate.

No one really seems to like this one, but I don't care, it's my favorite.   There is something so delicate in the way you move and the words you use As I'm thrown about in this coffin of lace a...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:19:00 GMT

Something for the kids.

I watch you, watch her And I really thought I was done being insecure But it's hard when she's so funny, and her words move through the conversation with ease And she has this power about her and I k...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:22:00 GMT

A little unambiguous alliteration and inconvenient verse.

With every sudden pause in your lingering moments of listless suspension There is an instant of decompression Where my shackles are released and I rise from my bed of nails to breathe And it is in th...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:21:00 GMT

This is, by far, the cutest thing I have ever written.

Once upon a time life was nothing but stress Once upon a time I was a broken mess Once upon a time I was lost and forgotten Once upon a time I was feeling done in   And then you came along You k...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:26:00 GMT

I’m happy.

So I guess this is the moment all those songs are about You know, I’ve always believed it was real But I guess I never believed I’d travel that route And to get it, I’d have to beg,...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:03:00 GMT

Something new.

Sun masked in mist Only darkened clouds light the sky As the cold rain saunters to an empty city street She makes her way, nervously Preparing a speech, jumbled words, crammed together Prays for eloq...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:54:00 GMT

Throw it against the wall and see what sticks.

So here we are again, my friend It appears that the innocence may soon be at an end I can never escape my indelible ways Inappropriate conduct in an attempt at social grace Such an end reveals nothin...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:20:00 GMT

What wasted unconditional love . . .

It settles in the base of your stomach and provokes a gag It is a virus, eating away at your soft, white skin from the inside And each time you try to run, you hit a snag Taking in those shallow, pan...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:17:00 GMT

New Poems (and one that isn't mine.)

I'm not the kind of girl that you keep A long, even, walk, but it's steep And you are never alone, pulled into complexities of personality Flaunting the mundane, collapsing into lustful triviality An...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:51:00 GMT