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Katie

I am here for Friends

About Me

I'm tired of showering.

My Interests

Tattoos, guitar, poetry, Jaegermeister, Jesus, perfecting the art of the sarcastic comeback, falling in love with gay boys, Maker's Mark, penguins, the 12 levels of hell, being The Most Antagonistic Girl known to Nick Campbell, punk rock, folk rock, crack rock, etc. I am no longer in need of a fake ID.

I'd like to meet:

Some guy tried to rub up against me in a crowded subway car Some guy tried to feed me some stupid line in some stupid bar You know I see the same shit every day The landscape looks so bleak I think I'll take the first one of you home who does something unique

Music:

Ani DiFranco, Dan Bern, Rancid, The Distillers, Jack Palance Band, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, Social Distortion, Suicide Machines, Joan Jett, The Misfits, Bitch and Animal, Operation Ivy, Bad Religion, Sleater-Kinney, Pine Hill Haints, Nirvana, Bangs, The Butchies, Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, The Fugees, Bon Motherfucking Jovi, Springsteen, Rumbleseat

Movies:

Breakfast Club, Wet Hot American Summer, The Shining, The Truth About Jane

Television:

Pre-lottery-winning Roseanne, The Simpsons, Adult Swim, Talk Sex With Sue, The Daily Show, Made, A Wedding Story, shows that involve gross surgical procedures

Books:

To Kill A Mockingbird, Naked, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, The Lovely Bones, No More Masks, The God of Small Things, The House of the Spirits

Heroes:

The guy that does my hair and the guy that does my tattoos.

My Blog

A Letter to my Assailant

This one is brand new, so I'm looking for feedback, specifically in the areas of tone, internal rhyme, and if you can think of a better form for this particular poem, let me know.A Letter to my Assail...
Posted by Katie on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:13:00 PST

A Sonnet to my Muse

This one's a couple of months old because I've been thinking I'll revise it, but I think this is as good as it gets.To My MuseOld friend, it's been so long since last we met, since last we carried on ...
Posted by Katie on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:52:00 PST

Epiphanies

I just realized two things: 1. Everyone I know seems to have godchildren. I think I should have some too. 2. My blog doesn't have a name. Suggestions?
Posted by Katie on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:28:00 PST

Sestina

Currently seeking title. The sestina is a seven-stanza poem (ostensibly) in iambic pentameter that repeats the last word of each line in every stanza in some complicated pattern that I can only disce...
Posted by Katie on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:37:00 PST

Accusations from her Guitar

Dramatic monologue. (That means it's in the voice of my guitar. To me. Poetry lesson for the day, kids.) I. Remember how, when we first met, you held me so delicately, hardly daring to fin...
Posted by Katie on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 09:56:00 PST

La Petit Mort

No, I don't speak French, so I have only the vaguest idea of rather that's correct or not, so feel free to correct me. This is a Petrarchan sonnet with a variation in the sestet. Knowing that our ...
Posted by Katie on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:58:00 PST

One Question

My poetry professor, while prone to long-winded bouts of irrelevance, occasionally says something worthwhile and or/ poignant. This sonnet came from one of those moments, wherein he observed that "Yo...
Posted by Katie on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:52:00 PST

I Hate Poetry

Accusative Prepositions Fur dich Ohne dich Gegen dich For you Without you Against you A natural-enough progression for the German class before me, at least. Their words left on the ...
Posted by Katie on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:00:00 PST

A Short Lesson .2

Sidewalking, in daylight, stepping over broken bottles and men, stopping every few feet, tossing change to pay my passage, like every aching starving person I'm chancing on is Charon, relaxin...
Posted by Katie on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:00:00 PST

This is what I think about blogs which are posted but not readable

God, I'm witty.
Posted by Katie on Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:20:00 PST