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True Story, pt. 71

11-May-08

something i can’t define

05-May-08

you know me, or you think you do

you just don’t seem to see

i’ve been waiting all this time to be

something i can’t define

so let’s cause a scene

clap our hands and stomp our feet

or something, yeah something

i just gotta get myself over me

True Story, pt. 49

25-Apr-08

“Oh, this is random,” she says, using her favorite introductory phrase. “I really want to make cookies tonight.”
Uh, sure, I say, secretly relieved. I’ve learned that “This is random” could mean any number of things, from a mundane question about the dirt in my car to the preface to an hours-long conversation that emotionally unhinges [...]

losing my edge

12-Apr-08

when i think about how much changed in the last three years

all the growing, the settling, the softening, the inescapable pull of creeping maturity

to where even the most resistant among us have had our sharp, unruly edges rounded

the merits of what we’ve gained cannot be questioned or discounted

but it’s hard not to feel a little [...]

True Story, pt. 26

04-Apr-08