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                <title>It's been so long...</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:14:29 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I guess I just feel obligated to write a journal entry, since i haven't done much of anything on here for the past...gawd knows how long. So this is me doing something, because i really have nothing to say besides AP ART is keeping me busy and Hello to any out there reading this. Good afternoon....and all such junk...<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Spring Never exsisted and now Summer is one...</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 19:36:07 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Long Thunder storm, and could my title get any longer.<br />But it's summertime, which means freedom, which means whatever i want to do, and if i want to have ridiculously long journal titles than i am fully justified to having one! ...yeah. Now I get unlimited time for art, that is, the time between my AP Art homework, my AP Enviromental Science homework, my AP Lit, and my job. I have time stashed away somewhere, I know I do.<br />So in the mean time while I look for my lost time and try to put it to good use.<br />Enjoy your summers and I hope yours isn't wet like mine.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Brighter Side of Black</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 19:43:03 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I just realized that my artwork is for me. I should do it because it makes me happy, I guess make my day a little brighter. This has been nagging on me for a while becuse I always seem to be trying to get everyone elses affection, not my own. And in no way is this self fattery, I just haven't been that happy lately with my relationship with art, because it always felt like something was missing. So now I have it. I am my own problem, I have come to that realization, because my art, like my words, should make me happy.<br />Hopefully, someone out there has a brighter day...<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /><br /><br /><br />I think I might try going through all of the little smiley face buddies, because I am truly a cacophany of emotions. ...I must be emo.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Naptime is Over!</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:52:09 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Good morning, good night, and good day. <br />I added new stuff today so now I'm semi-satisfied and I'm learning how to work Photoshop, which is a bonus for my computer-dyslexic self. <br />Good evening!<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Out With the Old...</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:54:20 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ ...And in with the new.<br /><br />Yadumu is doing a little spring cleaning so that she can upload some new stuff.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>AP Art</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:24:57 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Haha, funny try. So...I made it into AP art studio a while ago, but i'm still pretty excited about it.<br />...yeah, that was my story.<br />Oh, and i'm going to start uploading my portfolio that got me into the class soon.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Dry Like Toast</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:35:37 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Wow, so I'm looking around at all of these awesome artists here on deviantart, and they all have these colourful pages that are fun and interesting. And then I flip back to my page and everythig' a ft mensional snore. Hmm...I wonder what a technologically challenged p can do about it? I don't know, but I'll figure it out. So kudos to all those people with cool pages.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>The Parking Lot Blues</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:36:13 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I started my life out on the inside, where the slick ring of muscles ejected me into this life. I begged not to go out that way, but that was the way it had to be. It was so light out in this world, and I remember blinking my eyes to the new sensations. Everywhere, there were eyes on me. Was I that strange of an anomaly? Was there something wrong? Something warm drips into my eyes and I feel something soft wipe it away.<br />Oh! A bubble bursts in my chest and IÂm opening my mouth, shrieking out the sudden panic I feel welling up inside of me. I am nervous and I want to go back in.<br />   I was seven, when I finally got to go back in. Mommy had fallen asleep on her bed with the remote control in hand. Carefully, I pulled myself up onto the bed and curled myself into her warmth. She smelt of lotion and something unique to her. She smelt good, as I draped her arm over me. The remote control dropped out of her hands and hit the floor with a clatter. I froze, but mommy remained motionless so I sighed, contentedly into her warm side happy to be back in again.<br />   I shifted over in sleep and my scabbed over knees scraped over mommy, waking her up. She had picked me up gently and put me back in my place. I woke up that morning alone, and in my own bed.<br />   I was nineteen when I finally invited some else into my bed. He had hesitantly sat down on the edge, beckoning with his hand for me to come closer. Carefully, he slid his hand over mine and pulled me back into his arms. We had fallen back into the bed, all splayed out and lovely like it should be. I had felt loved and I was back in there again, with the soft pulse of a heart guiding me over the edge. It was his heartbeat as it set the beat and allowed me to follow. It was keeping him alive with its steady, powerful flow of blood throughout his veins. In this way, it was keeping me alive too.<br />We parted on good terms, never forgetting the good times, or for that matter the bad. But it had been good for those few months, until I had opened my eyes and realized I was alive.<br />   I was twenty-three when I entered the real world. Everyone had said it would not be easy. I had laughed and just brushed them off. After-all, I already knew it all-I had gone to college, remember. My own apartment was what had broken me. The steady up tempo of pay day and the down tempo of rentÂs due was what led to high blood pressure. My doctor had prescribed me to chill. I had found another doctor. Finally the apartment settled down, and I realized that life, real life, reacquired that you work at it. I had become an adult in that moment, until the land lady had handed me a note telling me that she was closing the building down so we all had to go, and I childishly stuck my tongue out at her. Not to mention my blood pressure was rising. I was sure my blood was boiling of the surface of my skin. I could feel it tingling.<br />   It had all worked out in the end and when I was twenty-seven, I moved into bigger and better with someone special. We had tied the knot not too long ago and now he had taken it upon himself to make my dreams come true. I opened my eyes to him every night and morning and continued to blink at all the new experiences. I was a mother. I gave up my career. I devoted my life to my husband and kids.<br />   It was not until I was forty-five that this had all fallen apart. What people didnÂt tell me was that the dream ended when the girls start to sag. I was heart-broken, and could feel my life slipping away from me one heart beat at a time. With the kids out of the house and my husband never home, I had gotten bored. And then she came. She resuscitated me in the good way and stirred me back to life. Finally, I was in there again. She didnÂt hold my hand and kiss my heart, instead she fanned the flames and soon I found myself back on blood pressure medicine for all too good reasons. Her big blue eyes and far-marked wisdom enticed me and led me down the very road that led right to her bed; and I was happy there.<br />   So I opened my eyes, and all around eyes were watching me. Something soft wipes whatever it was that was dripping into my eyes away; and I find myself blinking. These sensations are all so new to me and yet I never want it to end because that would be bad. I realize IÂm not moving at the same time I see the flashing colors of red and blue.<br />   Oh! A bubble bursts in my chest and I am wailing. I know now. I had gone for milk. She had been out of milk and if I was too stay the night then that would mean I would need breakfast which means cereal and naturally milk, I had reasoned. By all means go get your milk, she had laughed, and then swooped down for a kiss. I had waved her off, be right back. You better be, she had smiled and that was why I was wailing. You better be back, you better be.<br />   I continued to wail until my heart burst and the EMTs were all over me, but that didnÂt matter because it was all over, for me at lea... ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Catch Me Something Fierce Tonight</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:02:57 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ You see, I'm wearing this slinky little red number,<br />trying to catch your eye,<br />but I guess that eye is a wanderer,<br />or a little bit confused...maybe even a little gay,<br />but i pulled this dress real tight you see,<br />and had to get my girlfriend to help squeeze it on me,<br />because it ain't easy being beautiful in that slinky sort of way,<br />when you are a bodacious as me.<br />So, I'm pouting, you see,<br />because you haven't looked over here all night, baby,<br />and my size 12 is in a size 6<br />and damn, just give it a look.<br />But no honey for my sugar tonight,<br />maybe this little red number should be retired,<br />because I been married to you 23 damn years,<br />and your eyeing the 20-something in the next seat over.<br />So I, wiggle my hips a little,<br />just to see if you'll come over.<br />And then I freshen my hair and pucker my lips,<br />just like you used to like me to do baby.<br />And I pull out the mirror to check myself,<br />and maybe pamper a little,<br />and I seem to have caught an eye.<br />He's cute in all the right places, honey,<br />and fine as hell,<br />so I slink my little slinky self out of that booth,<br />and go on with that little cute something,<br />all the time thinking, maybe your eye'll catch this.<br />But as this little slinky red number slips out the door,<br />I ain't even catch your eye on the outswing.<br />So brother, you just lost out.<br /><br /><br />...Um, wondering where this one came from<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>A Taste of the Universe Wrapped Up in a Blanket</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:31:10 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Blue ferried wheels<br />with pin stripe blow up dolls,<br />that pucker their lips<br />and squint their eyes<br />because they're really <br />blind in the strawberry fields<br />of icky icky love making,<br />where one body means<br />two bodys rempi each other<br />into the oblivion above the stars<br />where rocket science as calculated<br />that their landing shouldn't occur <br />for another 100 billion light years from now.<br />So I guess that leaves us with time to dry our eyes<br />and face the sun becausethe music has<br />taken a break to brake the bread<br />and pass the supper.<br />Damn hag, where are thorolls you promised.<br />They're famous, y'know.<br />So famous, you have to squeeze your eyes closed<br />and gasp,<br />just to get the full taste of them<br />in your mouth with its round oblivion<br />that it should take the plunge down the esophagus,<br />and jam.<br />Damn hag, pass the juice,<br />because this piece just can't seem to navigate its way<br />through the oblivion and into the next one,<br />so i just may try  hand in helping it down.<br />Bon voyage, I think they say,<br />and make sure to check your watch,alwys check your watch,<br />those time thieves get finnicy in London,<br />lord knows what they'd try by the time you've landed in France.<br />France is it right?<br />THat's the place you're going<br />to try your hand at something new.<br />Just watch your watch,<br />is what I'm sayig,<br />because the new and the old<br />just can't function<br />without the functionings of time.<br />Anyways, are we there yet?<br />Have we reached 100 billion light years from then,<br />so that we can open the joke in the box<br />and damn  aveood laugh,<br />a knee slapper that one.<br />But for the moment<br />I want it peaceful,<br />so that i can drink my juice in the corner<br />and cry "Oy Vay!" to the milk maid<br />with the man made breasts,<br />because the dream is all in the makeup<br />and the lustor of the tactfully batted eye.<br />Am I pretty?<br />Are you pretty?<br />Are we pretty enough for you?<br />Becau ennough,<br />my doll is the prettiest thing in the<br />whole wide damn straight universe.<br />And she thinks your pretty too!<br /><br /><br />...So, hey everyone after a long, long time of a hiatus. I know it's way after the new year and that I'm a little late in getting this poem up, but a poem is a poem is a poem anytime of the year that you read it, so hopefully you'll enjoy this poem written and pulled from the ass of this very chica everyone. Don't let the randomness suck you in. I tend to go a little far out sometimes. But I'm excited for this new year and the fact that I have reved myself to start dilligently uploading my recent artwork to bury the what I have up here now (its embarrasing to go through all that stuff). Whatever, I'm moving on. And I miss all of my old buddies. you know who you are.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>misery</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:54:24 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ So...I have mono and won't be updating for awhile because of it. Just thought you guys should know. ...Yeah.<br />
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Ha...I like the avatar. It shows how i'm feeling to a tee.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Heated Lullabies</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:37:46 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Ten rotten reasons for no lullabies,<br />
the world would be more forgiving then,<br />
if kids weren't raised to believe the fantastical,<br />
because the real-time reality show doesn't do three wishes or the clicking of red heels.<br />
You're on your own kiddies. I hope you realize that from your sweet lullaby tells meant to comfort, and perphaps raise you up in a respectable manner. But than mommy and daddy let go and it's fly birdie fly because your free. But you're not really free when the constraints of those lullabies hold you in their snare. You are forever enamored with that night in shining armour, or that damsel in distress when what you really should be worrying over is that second mortage on your home, or last november's rent (reality check. It is now February). Good luck to you though, when you tip off your hat and make your way out that door. I hope your flight goes well but those lullabies cannot be your crutch. If you wish to fly then fly. Make no excuses of my charming prince never came or there was no six foot blond bimbo to save-just fly and see where you land. Because in the land of fairytales, all Tinkerbell needs is some reality.<br />
Dream on. Dream on. It's a reality check, now go fix the heater.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Gobler for your thoughts?</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:43:29 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Tonight is forever,<br />
the parched wasteland of my desire.<br />
If I were to ever love,<br />
tonight would be the night,<br />
for with my gut full,<br />
and my mind a blur,<br />
the gobbler bird has set filght,<br />
to release the mild endorphins,<br />
and morph dreams to life.<br />
Oh, how I cherish the night of the night,<br />
as I take time to consider the irony of my plight,<br />
Lamentation forever will never be key,<br />
when I, who his meatless, will never consume meat.<br />
<br />
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>The Reason Why Teens Shouldn't Drink</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:25:07 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ The turkey, the teapot, and the kettle all walk into this bar,<br />
and the turkey is a feast belayed to the eyes of the traveler, <br />
while (apparently) the teapot is cast aside,<br />
there-upon jealousy brews (all spoken in drunken slur),<br />
the kettle pats the turk-wait oh no, <br />
it pats the teapot on the back and says,<br />
wait...you gotta here this,<br />
it says "It's time to turn a new leaf".<br />
And then all the drunks in the bar roar with laughter;<br />
(Including the one that told me this "joke")<br />
<br />
...I know this isn't a poem or in anyway/shape or form mine. I just thought it was an interesting anecdote. I'm not crazy (I swear!). My friend got so wasted this weekend and this was a joke that she was just dying tell me. I found it interesting, at the same time pathetic because who would want to ingest somethig that turns you into a person who thinks that this joke is funny. So, this is me pretty much saying DON"T DO DRUGS or ALCOHOL! PLease, I have lost so many people to these and it's not really worth it when you look back at it, some of them have even looked back at their lives and admitted that the drugs and the drinking weren't worth (as a side note, they're in jail telling me this). <br />
Just don't do it, and this is especially directed towards my friends because I love you guys and I have no plans to lose anyone else. And ths joke wasn't even funny, so what the hell's the point.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>A History Lesson</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:12:45 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I am five times the man I will ever be, sitting here,<br />
And maybe twice the woman. But ask me not because I donÂt answer. I lost my words so long ago. I am ten times the person in agony, because whatÂs a little suffering in the long run of virility. I am twenty times the bestial, the instinctual lean towards the hunt. The hunt of the pride is in pursuit of the intangible, the indescribable-a sense too far beyond my words. I am 100 times the forgotten, the never seen until you close your eyes and dream to me. I am there, waiting. I am 1,000 times the ostracized and that has never fazed me because behind the mask there is freedom. I am forever-more the forgotten child. The lost between the cracks. They have seemed to misplaced their code of conductibility and let this child sink underneath. I am infinity times the person any being will ever dream to be, because I am the dreams-their maker and substance and you would never survive me. I am the hopeful times in the 30s where a generation sang of times beyond the depression. We have sunk so low as to label ourselves, a generation of general activity. I am the future times, where cars will fly, and the world will be synchronized to beat. We will all exist on one micro-chip and no questions will be asked. I am the questionable times where millions were lain to slaughter, all in the name of purity and the holy ghost. I am the eerie times, where the hairs of your neck canÂt quite seem to calm. I am the charitable times, where a select few rise above and meet the challenges that life will always be. And finally I am the never forget-me times, because history will always repeat.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>The Demon's Belly is a Rotten Place to Be</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:10:48 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Well, this officially ends my non-updating stint. As I promised, from now until the end of this year will try to post a new poem everyday. It's exciting, I'm almost done pimping out my new computer. <br />
Hope you Enjoy<br />
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Purple dice are rolling, crossing the divide, the greatest divide this span of space could ever hope to be. <br />
Jammed between and spread through the great expanse is a demon, to which it slowly releases its jaws into the nether worlds and lets snake eyes look asunder. I wonder. Slowly, acrimoniously, there are biddings to the auction that hold accountable all of its thirty two occupants because that is deemed decent, or at least that is what the board of education has us saying. <br />
And this snare that theyÂre holding up is all too twisted to be pretty. It is shining. It is shiny. <br />
It is beautiful and I have to touch, but to touch is to cave in to the devil lying in wait for that apple to fall into your hands, ever so slightly-lightly, just like that. <br />
He is waiting for that first bite, and the crunch and for the juice to run all over. For that juice is the demon marking you. <br />
Your soul is tainted by the likes of golden delicious in the 22 aisle of a supermarket bay. But it is nice to have the time asunder, down under, where the blankets donÂt shine and no one, absolutely no one rises before nine. <br />
And the sheets are all twisted from the mess made above the bed and theyÂre in it, spread through the great divide like a strawberry biscuit to which no one has laid a claim, so it lays touch-less and bleeding and marked by the insanity of the mind because the hemoglobins are interacting with the norepinepherines to overload the mother-load of the transistor because it is twisted. <br />
Seriously twisted between rhyme or reason and the meaning behind all words lies in the pit of this demonÂs belly. <br />
So we seed our way through, hoping for miracles; though they may never come. <br />
But we are allowed our hopes, our small peace of mind that lays claim to the expand of time that we inhabit because we breath in, breath out, breath in, breath out. <br />
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and then weÂre out.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>New news not gone stale yet</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:08:26 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Exciting. I just got rid of my craptastic old piece of shit (which I grew to be very fond of, mind you) and got a new piece of...machinery...something that actually runs so I am not sure if I'm dreaming or not. But anyway, I'm sorry that I haven't been uploading. I will start shortly as long as I can figure out how to get all of the stuff off my old computer onto this new one. It really is a nice piece of scrap...metal...machinery...thingey. Maybe in time I'll learn to love it like my old craptastic computer but for now we are just strangley acquainted and only deal with each other out of mutual agreement (ie, it works for me and I don't break it and vice versa).<br />
I am the beloved,<br />
the spindler of time,<br />
as these old habits <br />
grow rabid,<br />
with the reduction of Time.<br />
<br />
Ciao<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Technology is making us stupider.</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:33:36 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Opinions story i wrote for the newspaper.<br />
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<br />
What is the capitol of Australia? Or where is Norway? If either of these questions has you reaching for your computers to Google the answers then technology has definitely become your crutch. I was asked; has technology dumbed down society? And although I am no expert, I do believe technology has made our brains lazier. What I mean, is why would we want to keep all of the names of capitols to their countries on hand in our memories if we could just turn on the computer and do a yahoo search for the answers. The capitol of Australia is Sydney, by the way. <br />
Once upon a time children spent years building up their vocabulary just so they would not get marked down for spelling errors on their next essay. But lo and behold the marvelous word processor came along and took over that job for us. Oh it is okay if you donÂt know that word Timmy, your computer will fix it for you.<br />
True technology has allowed us to achieve many marvelous things, such as finding cures for influenza and leprosy, and the invention of trains, planes, and automobiles and so on and so forth but recently, it seems that we, as a human race, have become slaves to technology. <br />
For instance, take a ride in your car down highway 64. The chances are that you probably did not make it a full minute without seeing someone on their cell phone either texting or talking. This is just another example of technology making us stupider, because how stupid is that? Driving is about reflexes and being aware of everything in your vicinity and how good are reflexes going to be if youÂre carrying on a conversation about how Susie got her nails done or how Bobby scored the winning touchdown at last nightÂs football game. No one is that good of a driver.<br />
It seems that our reliance on technology has gotten so bad that public figures have started taking notice. Robin Roberts hosted the 2007 Scripps Spelling Bee on primetime TV during a prime time in hopes of making America realize that we [as a nation] need to start focusing on our academics and getting away from the television sets or game consoles or computers. Âtalk about that dude whose name I canÂt rememberÂ.<br />
So take a moment to consider that Norway is north of Denmark on the Red Sea and that I am typing this on a laptop with a state of the art word processor ranting against the woes of technology. Oh woe itÂs me.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Razors in the Hands of My Past</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:31:40 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ The pages of my past are all slipping past,<br />
to be lost, forgotten in the grass.<br />
But I lay my head down to rest,<br />
in this bed of memories past,<br />
hoping for hope's sake<br />
that the three ghost of memories lost will touch my soul<br />
and remind me why I lie here,<br />
why these tears hurt so,<br />
as they are razor sharp, <br />
and searing a path down my cheeks,<br />
down<br />
down<br />
down<br />
until they meet the bits and folds of my memories,<br />
and they collide,<br />
only to meet at my conjuntion.<br />
The point between joints where whispers are lost,<br />
and the great synapse of the mind storing these forbidden treasures.<br />
So i cry these tears at just the right time,<br />
to relieve the burden of many lifes<br />
lived and lost<br />
in the great abyss of the mind.<br />
<br />
...So, i id say i was going to start adding more prose. About that...that won't be happening till next monday. I'm going to pick out some of my pieces and see how that goes.<br />
Goodnight and good luck<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Stereotypical</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:12:30 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ roses are red,<br />
violets are blue,<br />
how about i don't <br />
keep feeding bullshit to you.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Words Taste Like Shit</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:08:17 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Words are slippery<br />
and foul tasting in the mouth,<br />
but i think i can manage with these few short words,<br />
I think i can,<br />
i think i can,<br />
i can't,<br />
and i'm stuck,<br />
gaping in the crowd,<br />
lost without words.<br />
I think i can't find the right words to call you over.<br />
I think i can't find my words nestled in the brook of my mind,<br />
where soul meets body I do believe there is a phrase deep down<br />
brimming to the surface.<br />
It is there,<br />
almost there,<br />
just politely pushing its way to the surface.<br />
<br />
Fuck you!<br />
And then I turn around and walk away,<br />
word regurgitation always leaves a sour taste in my mouth.<br />
<br />
...I never know where these are coming from. But i think i am going to get away from poetry alittle bit and start displaying more of my prose stuff. I'm kind of sick of my last minute rushed poems.<br />
Goodnight and good luck.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Demon Glares</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:10:26 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I sold my soul to the devil today,<br />
the devil transit lying in wait, that is.<br />
It crouched reall low until it caught my hip<br />
and off guard its teeth sank into me.<br />
I yelped a little when it caught me so,<br />
I wasn't sure whether to name it a he or a she,<br />
but i knew, too distinctly, that this was the end,<br />
of my blissful retreat into ignorance.<br />
But here i now sit,<br />
with my body and mind<br />
and my soul somewhere seperate from body.<br />
For I have sold my soul to the devil,<br />
the devil of wifi internet connections, that is;<br />
and the devil, he sits here smiling.<br />
<br />
<br />
...I got afacebook today. After two years of push and shove, i finally submitted and now i feel dirty in a way, *shrugs* I don't know what else to say.<br />
<br />
Goodnight<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Whose the Whore?</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:11:41 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ In the dark the pantry looms,<br />
teeming for its next visitor.<br />
Perhaps its piing for the wants of its inhibitants,<br />
that live in a world of saturated dreams,<br />
or for the hatred of the anti-hydrogenated,<br />
anti-sugar,<br />
anti-fat,<br />
anti-calorie,<br />
little girl who is actually too small to be registered by the pantry as a valid guest.<br />
But it suffers her visits because its a disease,<br />
the sinful want for attention, <br />
just to be given the time of day,<br />
so that all your tears of frustration will melt away into a HoHo<br />
or the whore will actually take a bite of your pop-tart.<br />
Either way, they don't need a psychologist<br />
when they have you.<br />
Because your are all they need<br />
with your stock cabinet filled to the brim<br />
with your quick fix pagots's,<br />
and the gurgling bellies that believe you their deity.<br />
I am a midnight muncher,<br />
and you are my dealer.<br />
So whose the whore?<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Family Matters</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:51:36 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Two little forms<br />
sitting on a couch.<br />
One's in pout and one's in doubt.<br />
First has the kitty-cat,<br />
and Second has the dog,<br />
but the mouse in the center-slot,<br />
really means nothing at all.<br />
So first friend, blue friend,<br />
I say pat,<br />
the Second girl's cat on the back,<br />
and if you've kept up you should see,<br />
that two begots a family.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>The Begining</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:17:49 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Stiff is to lemons<br />
as birds are to bees,<br />
so why the hell can't we just say that<br />
that adam did eve.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Bodily Juices</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:16:23 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ The stomach acids are at work, again-<br />
just enough to cause discomfort.<br />
But if the pain is real<br />
and the eyes wide-shut,<br />
then the brain must be in overdrive.<br />
Congratulations! You are alive.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Too Gifted for my Soul</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:41:53 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Tears too heavy to be lifted,<br />
as everything is plowed into the snow.<br />
But the ice storm don't mind.<br />
It only makes it frostier down there.<br />
<br />
Sun too blinding to be brilliant,<br />
as it lifts the day up from its funk.<br />
Where it's been and where it's gone,<br />
the world will never know.<br />
<br />
Moon too spiritual to be considered god,<br />
the God, a god, the goddess of all goddesses,<br />
lifts us from the tides of our lives,<br />
so that we can see the beyond.<br />
<br />
Words too saturated to have any real meaning,<br />
I mean is there ever a point to writing a poem?<br />
But i am here now,<br />
and tears have lifted,<br />
and the sun has blinded<br />
and moon has become my goddess.<br />
So everything is well now,<br />
in the hearth of my kitchen sized dome.<br />
<br />
...Goodnight and goodluck figuring this one out, because i have no idea either.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Jesus Van</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:47:14 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ So I was driving down the interstate when we [everyone in the car] saw this van. The damn thing about it was that someone had taken a gold sharpie pen or whatever to it and marked the cr with all sorts of jesus paraphernalia. <br />
This is what i got from that. (I wisj I could upload the photos but they're on my cell and i'm not quite so technologically sai as to figure out how to get the pictures from my cell to this site so you'll have to just believe). <br />
<br />
<br />
Bless holy the rigid days that come yonder.<br />
The boot and the bible belt too.<br />
I am melting in the deep mirth of my laughter<br />
And the sea of gold words;<br />
Jesus saves.<br />
He is our savior!<br />
Holy Lord, Jesus Christ<br />
Jesus Christ-not that I be taking his name in vain<br />
But Christ if there were not enough words to fill up a car<br />
And set it off on its wheels rolling.<br />
Is it a sin of pride to boast your wants?<br />
Your needs<br />
Your religion<br />
Quite like that.<br />
I suppose, it is a free country<br />
But free is being able to be rest assured <br />
That while you drive up the interstate <br />
You will not be blinded by the likes of;<br />
Repent your sins and accept the son, the father and the Holy Ghost into your lifeÂ<br />
And I mean Holy!<br />
It screams.<br />
The words are screaming, <br />
Baring their Holy selves across the lanes and into your sight.<br />
How can you not see gold embossed letters, <br />
Slightly raised on a 9 to 5 soccer motherÂs sporty little van. <br />
Oh, we see you.<br />
How can we not?<br />
But answer me this,<br />
As you descend down Highway 270<br />
In your blazing van of Holy<br />
Can you tell me that God is my world?<br />
That God rocks your world.<br />
Will you be able to physically stop and repent my sins in the name of your father?<br />
Can you tell me why he has put such love in your life?<br />
No! <br />
So donÂt fool me with those 99 cent stickers <br />
Probably picked up by a begrudging husband <br />
At a 9 to 5 99 cent store.<br />
Jesus does not live there<br />
Nor does he live on your car.<br />
He is in your soul and if you know that<br />
Then you know<br />
And the rest of the damn interstate does not need to know that.<br />
Thank you<br />
And Happy Driving.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Good Morning on the Anniversary of Tragedy</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:34:36 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ She is left here crying,<br />
wondering why all these people are dying.<br />
When mommy, daddy said they'd be right back,<br />
but they never came home again.<br />
She is left there crying,<br />
curled up in her head,<br />
where no terrorists planes can crash 727's<br />
into her cerebral cortex.<br />
She weeps because she knows its all over<br />
and she has to find her way-<br />
alone, out in the world where people remember the day,<br />
but not the inbetween.<br />
But she lives there,<br />
in the craggy surfaces,<br />
between memorial days and the flags they raise.<br />
She lives in that world,<br />
of late school slips and home to home passing,<br />
and she is weeping because she was forgotten in the system,<br />
forgotten that she is the offspring of heroes,<br />
and that she is a hero of everyday,<br />
because she rises in the morning and survives the inbetween.<br />
<br />
Survival is instinct.<br />
Life is pain.<br />
Mommy, daddy never came over,<br />
from the otherside again. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
...I wanted to write something exclusive for today because we do tend to forget too easily and we do not realize that these people have to survive everyday between the anniversaries and i feel for them because i cannot imagine the pain they are going through. But i wish them well in life and hope that they can continue to survive and enjoy their life because they have every right to.<br />
Goodmorning<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Mummy Pass the Scalpel</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:28:03 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Who lies on the table,<br />
but the dead butterfly.<br />
Her gossimer wings<br />
and metallic interest<br />
have all faded to old.<br />
She once barracaded herself from the world;<br />
as protection,<br />
as a form of sheltering strength.<br />
Who knows the lengths they got to meta-morphasize?<br />
But mother says we all go the length<br />
and i guess in time I'll come to learn this<br />
but for now i am the scalpel<br />
dissecting the mystery<br />
as my mother accepts the knife.<br />
<br />
<br />
...yet again, the enigma of mother daughter relationships.<br />
P.S (I love my mother very much)<br />
<br />
<br />
...Ha! Poetic justice is served. I can finally get a job. Sweet sixteen is worth while after-all...just *cough* thought you guess should know that...yeah!<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Are you a bastard?</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:00:08 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ So this is another flash fiction (i guess that's what it's called) piece that i was inspired to write from the song from Never Too Late by three Days Grace.<br />
Enjoy<br />
<br />
<br />
ÂAre you a bastard?Â<br />
He nods.<br />
I shake my hand at him-take it please. The command is silent but he hears it.<br />
His hand in mine I start to cry. I do not know why I am crying, or maybe I do. It could be because I finally understand what tears represent-what they are meant for. I feel them appropriate for this situation. <br />
He looks at me sideways, ÂAre you a bastard?Â<br />
The tears donÂt stop as I shrug. This is sadness. It is sad. <br />
ÂAm I?Â I ask him.<br />
He looks up at the sky. Why do they do that? They always look at the sky. What is there? I look up and there are twinkling dots blotting out the darkness. I do not like them but obviously he does. He is smiling lightly. At least that is what I think is the right word for it. <br />
He is smiling and I am crying as we look up into the sky. Yes, this moment is definitely appropriate.<br />
He sighs, ÂI am a bastard.Â<br />
My eyes slide to him. He looks back. I nod and swipe the back of my hand against my eyes. I think that they are finished leaking. He squeezes my hand and looks back up at the sky.<br />
ÂDo you want me to tell you why IÂm a bastard?Â<br />
His voice is soft. I reach my free hand out to caress it. The wind tickles my fingers. I giggle, fluttering my hand through the midnight air. His words tickle my fingers.<br />
ÂYes?Â He asks, nodding his head for my agreement.<br />
I giggle and point at his drifting words.<br />
ÂThe night is swallowing them up.Â I say. I scrunch my nose up and lean forward to get a better look.<br />
He leans forward too, trying to see what I see but he does not. He can not and never will. He leans back with a huff and I mimic him, adding an over dramatic huff because I like to.<br />
ÂI am a bastard,Â he begins and I watch his voice drift off with the evening breeze. ÂI am a bastard,Â he says again. His face is scrunched up; the lines in his face visibly clear.<br />
They look funny. They look funny on him. I touch a finger to them-to feel them. They disappear at my touch. He does not look funny anymore, just sad. He lets go of my hand.<br />
ÂWhere are your tears?Â I ask, once again touching his face.<br />
He raises his hand to mine but does not touch it. I drop my hand and he drops his. He sits down and I sit down. He props his arms on his bent knees and I do the same. I love to move with him.<br />
He sighs. ÂYou do not always have to cry when youÂre sad.Â His voice carries a finality that confuses me.<br />
I cock my head to the side. ÂHow come?Â<br />
ÂBecause,Â his fists clench making a new assortment of lines in a new place. I move to touch but he pulls away. ÂBecause there are some kinds of sadness that are too sad for tears. They areÂnot appropriate.Â<br />
I form my mouth into an O and exhale. ÂOh!Â <br />
I touch the ghost like tendrils of my expression. If only they could see the product of their words. Then there would be no need for tears or sighs or smiles, because they could see the truth.<br />
ÂBut the truth is I am a bastard because I can not help you.Â<br />
I echo one of his words, ÂHelp?Â<br />
His hands grope at the air and his mouth opens and closes. I think he is struggling to breathe. My fingers go to feel his pulse. I snap them right in front of where I know his heart is and listen. His heart beat is fine. What was hurting him?<br />
ÂAre you in pain?Â I am confused.<br />
He tilts his head back a little and laughs. I am still confused. He looks at me after awhile. <br />
ÂItÂs not pain itÂs just that I cannot find the right words to describe help for you.Â<br />
I smile, happy that he is not in pain and then I nod.<br />
ÂUmÂhmm, help is like teaching someone what is appropriate so that they can understand the world better-my world at least.Â<br />
I cock my head to the side. ÂSoÂyou are my help?Â<br />
He looks at me, the corners of his mouth turning down slightly. ÂNo, I am helping you but I am not your help.Â<br />
I point my finger at him. Experimentally I say, ÂYou are helping me learn words and tears and how you are a bastard.Â<br />
He nods. ÂYes, that is help.Â <br />
I nod and try something new. I look up at the sky like I have seen them do so many times before. The twinkling dots do look sort of beautiful and I think I would not mind them so much if it was just them but they were blocking the sky-my sky. I sigh like he did when he looked at the sky to see if it would add to the effect. It did, a little bit.<br />
He is looking at me out of the corners of his eyes and the corners of his mouth are turned up. I feel like crying. My eyes are beginning to leak again but instead I smile. For the first time that night, I smile. His smile widens.<br />
ÂI am a bastard,Â he sighs and pushes his fingers back through... ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Dinner is Served</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:28:45 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Dinner is served on the blue plate,<br />
and dessert shows up on the red.<br />
Then pass me the greens<br />
and the yellow bean salad.<br />
And watch me dine<br />
on my crayola splattered platter.<br />
I say,<br />
Mm mm, this is good.<br />
<br />
<br />
I fasted today and obviously, you can all guess where my mind is.<br />
Night.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>It's Sleepy Time</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:35:35 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I wake up in the midst of time,<br />
tangled in the sheets of eternity,<br />
and just sigh.<br />
Is it really all over?<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Short and...I don't know wht else to say. My brain feels oddly numb right now so I am going to lay my head down and go to sleep....school sucks!<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Big Brother</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:12:05 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Does this annoy you?<br />
I really hope so.<br />
You see-<br />
I want an older brother to bug like this,<br />
but mama always says no and i don't like it,<br />
so i annoy her...<br />
...like this, you see...<br />
and i make her angry <br />
and then she throws me in the corner because she's no fun.<br />
So i want an older brother,<br />
to annoy like this,<br />
because there's nothing he can do about it.<br />
Ha!<br />
<br />
There you go ladies and gentlemen, an annoying little tid bit about annoyance. It annoys me. Goodnight.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Blue Plate Special</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:37:14 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I wish I could believe in miracles<br />
when all I see is the everyday;<br />
every second<br />
of everday<br />
of my pathetic life.<br />
Because really it's pathetic;<br />
in that i have to wash my socks before dawn<br />
and reorganize my underwear by colour, shape, and stain,<br />
then  fold them just to be sure that everything is sane.<br />
Just because I roll that way,<br />
and i see fit to make my life as pathetic as possible,<br />
as<br />
pathetic<br />
as<br />
can<br />
be.<br />
Do you see?<br />
I am the mundane in the original<br />
(how many people do you know fold underwear?)<br />
...and compete in the spring organizing olympics.<br />
Gold medals, all around for this babe.<br />
But Babe ain't got no transit to be sitting around in the corner laundromat waiting for you to bring the quarters.<br />
She's a gold medalists,<br />
and that chain hangs as a proud certificate of her patheticness,<br />
so get the sister a damn coin roll so that she can compete.<br />
Because she is pathetic;<br />
in that the sun rises over her head, and all she sees is a pertrubance,<br />
and that glowy, swiss cheese thingy is just the cows jumping stock;<br />
pink, white and gold<br />
because they've also won a crown (in the cow jumped moon marathon).<br />
Only to end up on the blue plate special of some 9-five diner,<br />
bcause that's the way they roll.<br />
And the patheticness of this world is that we are just too pathetic to look beyond ourselves and realize that, really, this has nothing to do with being pathetic.<br />
It has everything to do with you.<br />
<br />
<br />
I have no idea where this came from, so...um..., I guess enjoy.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Sweet</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:28:11 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Sweet like the apple, <br />
picked from the vine.<br />
I am your wine,<br />
flowing goddess in twine.<br />
Watch my hair flow<br />
in the tanned golden sun,<br />
then watch as it dismounts<br />
its current charge<br />
and returns to the ether-world<br />
to be sweet as rhyme.<br />
<br />
<br />
just to add another whimsical tid bit.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>The Mother of Words</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:09:30 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I wrote this for mother's day. Guess who it's for? Yeah, I love her and yes she has read this.<br />
<br />
    One word. Three words. Five billion to fill a lifetime and yet it is not enough. You can drown me in your vat of words and watch my body sink-float-hover in the existence of what my mother was to me.  She was my creator, my savior, my harboring oar and I relish in the slick liquid encasing my body and the dull pulse of pink flesh. I am drowning, not in the way where my lips would turn blue and my lungs would never discharge themselves of this so called life bearing liquid. There is no gasping or flailing or even the torrid onslaught of my life-one memory after another. I am alive. I am alive and breathing with the rhythm of every writhing pulse. I am living and I am here to make my mark and raise hell for nine months if at all possible. I am drowning in the life of my mother and her actions that bind me and her words that soothe me and her love that frees me. Let freedom take over, but I am going the extra mile to stretch myself and contort myself to the nurturing nature of my surroundings. Mommy words are not enough-five billion of them, five trillion, even infinity to the moon. It is not enough for the walls of my salvation to be woven from the words of my for-sisters and their consequences. I am here because their words spoke. I am here because their words had a voice-a substance and tangibility behind them. Mommy do you understand? Your words that soothe me have me drowning, not flailing mommy, but drowning and I donÂt mind at all. One day I will open my eyes to you and tell you thank you. One day I will hold your heart in my hands and tell you your words made it, your words will live on. One day, there will be no five billion or infinity to the moon. There will be no word to describe the lay of the words that you have cultivated in me, handed down to me from the hands of our ancestors. They are free. I will hold out my hands and cry to you for the first time and my eyes will open. I am your portrait, staring back at you. I am your everything. I am your canvas that you have given life to. <br />
After all mommy, a picture paints a thousand words.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Jezebel</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:37:03 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Jezebel, I love your hair<br />
let me stroke it in the morning.<br />
In your stride,<br />
in your tide<br />
I am jelly to the bone<br />
and anything underneath<br />
and between.<br />
And I don't mind that the morning shine<br />
is too bright on your hair.<br />
And I don't mind the sourness<br />
of morning after fog.<br />
And i don't mind your kuker bugs<br />
curled against your neck,<br />
because its soft in there.<br />
And I am safe in there.<br />
So I quietly rest my head for sleep.<br />
Jezebel, I love your hair.<br />
<br />
<br />
Good luck, and goodnight<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Cow jumped the Moon in a Space Suit</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:22:36 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I've had a long day,<br />
so won't you come play<br />
up in my mind<br />
because my legs are too tired<br />
to cross the great divide<br />
past neverland<br />
and into space where pigs fly.<br />
<br />
...tired...really really long day, but worth it.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Revenge is a Breath of Fresh Air</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:04:18 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ So I do these writings where I put on a song and open up micro word and just go for it. It's quite fun actually. Here's what I came up with for Imogen Heap's "Just For Now"-beatiful song.<br />
<br />
Day seven<br />
I looked up. The breeze always caught my attention in one way or another but it never annoyed me. It was just a minor irritation. The wind carried my memories in and out of the window, shallow in its reverence but vast in worth. I willed the wind to be tangible by squeezing my eyes shut. This never worked but I always found it worth while to try.<br />
	I was in a field. The sun was shining on her-on those lips. Those lips that I would love to devour, love to pour my worth on. She hums and oh god those lips are dazzling. I am mesmerized. She goes to brush a stray hair away from her face. Unconsciously, I mimic her actions, accidentally brushing against my eyes. And then thatÂs it.  <br />
	She disappears and takes those lips with her; and the sun has melted into shallow floor lighting and the sky has fallen to a cracked ceiling. And I am left alone, with the wind to tickle my hair and make me want to brush it away, but I donÂt. There is nothing in my body that can summon the will to brush it away because to brush it away would be to sweep away the memories. It would be like I am finally admitting my defeat-I quit and rest my words here. But that is not the case. I will never move on, no matter how many times my friends are there for me, or how many times they tell me to move on, or shove another prospect into my life. It never works because they do not get it. She was it. She was my everything and I stand by it so if I have to perish living in my world of memories I will do so willingly. I will die with a smile on my face, even knowing that she left me. She chose to go away. She left before I could even say goodbye or that I loved her. She chose to break my heart even though she would never know that.<br />
	She would never know.<br />
	That was my shame but not quite my regret. We had each other and even without the mushy words, the heavy cuddling, the sweet nothings, orÂthe sex; we had each other. She was my first friend, my best friend, and my rival. I hated her just as much as I hated what the world could do to her or how she could make me feel. But I loved her, all in that same breath. I loved her. Simply, she was it and now it has gone away so I will continue my life. I will continue to exsist but I will never live. I have accepted this, long ago, even though my friends refuse to do so. I will never be able to take in a deep breath and fell the inklings of life seep in through that one breath. I do not even waste my breath waiting for that day to come back to me. She is gone and life goes on.<br />
	I look to the window. The moon is out and its pouring into my bedroom. The sheets are convulsing in their disorganized fashion and I have no desire to straighten them out. She was chaos. She was my entropy and I was her buffer. She was in these sheets and the way the moonÂs light touched them, just right so as to make them dance. <br />
	I sigh and let myself fall back into the chaos. I can never sleep. I close my eyes and she is there making me never want to open my eyes again. I have considered it before-making myself so that I would never have to open my eyes again but she is out there so there is a chance. There is a small reason to hope that one day she will come back home, to me and to her friends. We care too much about her. I care too much about her but she made her choice. She left to seek revenge and revenge is what she will get. Her will is un-abounding. If only mine were as durable to survive just one more night, one more sleepless night. But her lips are there, always taunting, making my heart twist and bind in awkward yet comfortably familiar patterns. I can live off those lips if life were dependant upon it, even if it were not. I would live for those lips and those hazel eyes, and those breasts that have no mind to match mine but are still subtle to the touch.<br />
	I feel her, lying in bed besides me and I realized I have closed my eyes. But the window is still open and the moonlight is still pouring onto those same sheets I had been staring at but she is besides me, stretched out lazily, her head dipped back fanning her long brown hair out onto the pillow. It mixes with the chaos, proving that she is there. I looked to the window and sigh, as another breath of wind begins its torrent, on its way to my side to take my memory away. It comes but the memory does not fade. <br />
	It tousles my hair into my face and I move to brush it away and she is there, softly, with her hands wrapped around my wrists. I feel her pulse, her life in those pale delicate fingers. She is here-with me. She brushes the strands away from my eyes and I stare, too beyond shock to respond. Those lips are quivering and I realize she is murmuring something.  I am here love. I am here. And in those... ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Here</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:57:50 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Day seven<br />
<br />
There, there goes the blank screen<br />
stealing away with your treasures galore.<br />
who but the kitchen sink can save the world;<br />
the world of cybertronics and electrical thingies.<br />
But it's not the end of the world,<br />
just the end of your modern carreer.<br />
Say goodnight to your little friends<br />
and say hello to mine.<br />
<br />
<br />
Good morning actually. <br />
<br />
Argh...gotta get to school now.<br />
Ciao<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Angst on the Computer Screen</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:50:47 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Day six<br />
I turn on the computer<br />
and what do I see?<br />
The blankest screen,<br />
I have ever seen.<br />
I think i might of cried<br />
and wished it all forgotten.<br />
And for the upteenth time<br />
geek squad has re-jump started.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
...Arg! My computer died yet again and my dad's in France and my geek squad buddy went off to college last week so i was left to cry over a blank computer screen....Arg!<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Experimentations...yet again</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:00:43 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ So, I missed a day...I know. I didn't have access to the internet so on days where I miss, I'm just going to compound my entry. Hope you enjoy this improv.<br />
<br />
<br />
Day four/five<br />
<br />
I catch myself looking into the eyes of a stranger<br />
and wondering how the world has come to be.<br />
Your hands, your feet wrapped up in the everglades of indecency<br />
but you are innocent.<br />
How has this world come to be that innocence is a crime<br />
and kids gotta toughen up and at the same time plush up.<br />
<br />
Damn! What happened to happy hour kool-aid at 5<br />
and feeling that everything is okay<br />
But it's not.<br />
This world has degenerated<br />
into a beautiful mass of congealing mess.<br />
<br />
What has the world come to be?<br />
That those innocent eyes of the stranger<br />
are the one picking you up in a range rover<br />
and carrying your still warm body down the street to decimate.<br />
It is beautiful.<br />
<br />
And where have we gone?<br />
When learn by example children are fallling by the noose<br />
by the five o'clock news because that's what happened to Saddam.<br />
<br />
Why are we hideous?<br />
When nature is beautiful and fresh air pristine.<br />
And I wish we could take a walk<br />
and just open our eyes.<br />
It's beautiful.<br />
<br />
What has beauty turned into<br />
but a mass of rotting bodies flashed onto our screens;<br />
death toll up to 50,000 and rising<br />
...and what are you going to do?<br />
<br />
Say goodnight and whisper prayers,<br />
then maybe everything will be alright.<br />
It's beautiful.<br />
<br />
Say 'oh my gawd!' <br />
then switch the channel to watch some quality gang rape on CSI.<br />
It is beautiful.<br />
<br />
Say you believe in the after life<br />
and wish them luck there.<br />
It is beauty.<br />
<br />
Oh My Gawd!<br />
We are here.<br />
This land, this world, this revolving planet<br />
that is not a stranger to our eyes.<br />
It is the physical inbetween our hands,<br />
slipping away from us.<br />
And I catch myself looking into the eyes of a stranger <br />
and wondering how it has gotten to be such.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>More Experimentations</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:10:25 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I think this one is a little awkward but I'm still going to put it up anyway. *shrugs*<br />
<br />
Day Three<br />
                          An Ode to The Ode of the Teapot<br />
Lan of the teapot<br />
Land of the time,<br />
where mystic fantasies<br />
pass the wine.<br />
They'll sit as directed,<br />
as prim in their prime<br />
wearing little white doilies<br />
and saying 'oh that fine'.<br />
<br />
But darling I love<br />
your pearly white swine,<br />
and oh how I wish<br />
to pour the divine<br />
of which you spout<br />
to cup and to cup,<br />
the teapot is holy<br />
let's build it a shrine.<br />
<br />
Tea leaf by tea leaf<br />
you'll fill up my shrine<br />
and with this divine.<br />
I'll learn to span the divide<br />
and learn to transcend the physical.<br />
<br />
<br />
...Hope you like it.<br />
<br />
<br />
OI! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />
Many happy returns on turning sixteen.<br />
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sixteen inverted candles for you to blow out.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Experimentations...cont.</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:10:35 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Day two<br />
<br />
Culinary Affair<br />
<br />
<br />
This is the fork that will go in your hand. And this is the knife, I donÂt think youÂll need the spoon. Now let me step back and peel away the layers to your fantastic meal. Enjoy. I will enjoy this just as much as you will. This is the beating heart that will be served as your main entrÃ©e. Study it, dissect it. Make sure youÂre happy with it before the chef takes it back to the kitchen. Please donÂt grimace. You knew this was going to happen. Now in the meantime the chef is getting impatient and the water is about to boil over. Make your decision. I can assure you that I will be your one true rare delicacy. This is a once in a lifetime experience. It is not everyday that one will offer you their bleeding heart for your supper. So here is the fork and here is the knife-and maybe this napkin too. IÂll get the champagne if youÂll wait a moment longer. Bon appetite! The chef has been too kind tonight. You are truly blessed so let me leave you alone to your meal. Your decision was worth it. After all, I am the one on the table. It is my heart on your platters. And this is my gift to you. The decision was already made for you and for me so lets make the best of it and get it over quick. I know I taste good!<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Experimentations... Come, let's fave fun with</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:18:54 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ So, I'm going to try something new. THis one'll keep my brain festering for a while. Everyday until the new year I am going to post one new piece here; be it prose, poetry, or improv of either of those options. And yes, I know that I should upload these as deviations but this is just more fun.<br />
So here goes.<br />
<br />
Day One <br />
<br />
                                      Blood East to Blood Rising<br />
         What a lovely cyclonia? Babylon rising sees the sun, blood red to the east. Blood of cyclonia, a rising tide. Make it flow; make it right, a congealing, reeling blanket protecting the world from lesser evils. Jesus rose, Jesus rises in the name of unity, united under that blanket. Red blood is red blood, is the life force of every nation save only cyclonia. Unifying, purification on through unification, the world will bow down on one knee to the heirs of innocence. Bide thy time, slow in tide, eroding its way into the minds of the people. Sleep restless under a hapless sky, the moon in its crimson descent. Bye bye to the solar, the system of the world and sink your teeth into a Milky Way. Tear away nation of Plutonians, refugee cyclonians in the making. There, the Greeks went after their great nation. There the girl weeps, body whole and in the arms of mother Mary. Plump lips, calling, waiting, pearls of swine in the morn tide. Bane of all existence exists in the patella of Fibonacci, the steps to the hovering bent knee, waiting, biding, burning, put his cigarette as the sun rises east of Babylon.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Argh...if it's even a title</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:03:57 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Tomorrow I wake up<br />
tomorrow I die<br />
tomorrow the light in the sky will fade <br />
from blue and green<br />
to light reflections and wave lengths.<br />
I don't want to sigh <br />
when I know this sky; blue as it is(with or without the wavelengths)<br />
will soon be replaced by cold brick and plumbing.<br />
Blue is not blue anymore<br />
but the color of your sighs<br />
when you rise, too early, <br />
to where the sun hasn't woken<br />
and the blue is all consuming.<br />
I sigh<br />
I cry<br />
I will die<br />
but life is a cycle<br />
and death is a cycle<br />
and that circle will soon have to revolve<br />
and come back to the point <br />
where the sky is blue,<br />
the grass is green<br />
and school is nothing<br />
but a forgotten cycle of the stuff in between <br />
summer. <br />
<br />
...school really isn't that bad, there's just something about summer.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Unloading</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:02:35 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Okay so now that i have all of my old stuff updated I can move on to better and newer stuff. Yeah. It feels good to have all this stuff off my back. I can't help but say yeah, I'm just in that sort of mood. Yeah, so that's it for you then.<br />
<br />
Yeah...just had to add one more. I'm done now.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>WoW</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:44:26 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ So I was looking back at my gallery and i want to hide my face in shame. JaJa, it's aweful. I promise to start uploading more of my pieces-both writing and pictures. So here goes, more work. <br />
Oh and Happy Summer to all of my friends. i miss you guys and i'm sorry if i'm kind of a dead beat.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>Avatar Kudos</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:43:44 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ So finally, after five months i have an avatar. In due respect, the artwork is teeshamoore's of <a href="http://www.teeshamoore.com">[link]</a>, and Rosin set it up for which i am tremendously greatful.<br />
Kudos to you.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>The social world's on stilts</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:26:41 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Serious, think about how hard it is to manage a friend. Literally, your balancing on stilts and any minor winds could knock you off balance, let gravity take you over, and smash your body into a million bits and pieces on the ground; unless your gravity's best friend but that relationship must have taken years to develope then by the time it did, you would be dead. So then you're a ghost with this highly beneficial friendship that does not benefit you anymore. Go figure!?! <br />
       So this ghost and i are both teetering on stilts. Call it a competion if you want. And this major wind blows knocking the stilts from under you and, i think, this ghost is the former spirit of myself. Don't ask me where i got this notion from. It's just the way it is. Somehow, my bodily mass keeps me precariously perched atop these stilts. I am clinging to them with my dear life, but next to me, the ghost's stilts have collapsed and gravity has taken over, and there it is. A mess of endoplasmic goop running all over the place. I laugh at the former ghost of myself and wonder at the smite of me then as the goop begins to pool my stilts begin to slip. As gravity and i are not yet friends(but about to be), i fall. Laugh all you want, it's coming for you next. Now my goop and the ghost's goop are running down the river stix happily singing whatever jolly tune hits your thoughts at this moment. Go! Hum it to yourself then come back.<br />
...<br />
......<br />
.........<br />
...Yeah. So if you're wondering where this is going, i'm on the same page. Literally.<br />
      But i guess, i'm starting to have a social life. That doesn't mean that i don't miss you guys. You guys know who you are. Anyway, this friend of a friend is an awesome guitar player, or so i've heard. I don't know that for a fact yet but i'll find out later. I'm going to see him play at some cafe or another.<br />
Bye, got to go critique.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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                <title>My very first...</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:55:24 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ ....Hmm.. This is new. But I was just hanging out at my coolest friend in the world's , Dani, house and I know how everyone is screaming at me to be coming active. So here goes, I'm going to become a freakin' activist on behalf of a few select persons. Santa, I'm coming for you next. Ha Ha, I don't know. Everyone seems to have these stories to tell where as I kind of don't and/or don't want everyone going through my sight to know about my day. They wouldn't care if they aren't a member of the few select persons I'm talking about.<br />
 -I hope they're enjoying this. <br />
     "Humans everywhere, canned. Cliche' people organs rare...."<br />
DANI IS AWESOME! <br />
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THE END. <br />
Ah, can you tell that was my friend. Guess what her name is. no really, she is cool. <br />
I was on a tangent but it seems to have run away, oh yeah, I was about to freak out about this new cd I got. System of a Down's self titled cd is (i hate to say it) awesome. Its not like i haven't heard it before over and over again but there is...<br />
Wait now I'm getting yelled at for not taking a shower at this exact moment. It's not like I stink or anything. Really.<br />
...anyway. There's just something about having a cd in your hands and its all yours, no one elses and you can scratch it up, mess with it, upload it to anything you like. There's a certain appeal about it.<br />
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Hmm... a liitle bit too random. Oh well, its whats up in my residence. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="=)" title="=) (Smile)" /><br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~Yadumu</author>
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