Thursday, January 29, 2009

january 29
i feel
absolutely
insane today. i could
crack at any minute. please kill
my thoughts.

january 28
not that
it matters. it
doesn't. this is one long
and endless cycle that becomes
my life.

january 27
what part
will have been worth
anything? oh. i see.
the part where i continue to
get hurt.

january 26
oh, this
awful tension.
anything could happen,
and i can't believe nothing will
ever.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

january 25
when this
all blows up in
my face, i will laugh, tip
back my head and shout, 'it was
worth it.'

Saturday, January 24, 2009

january 24
oh no!
my tolerance
grows ever higher, and
thus, my bar tabs empty my purse
in kind.

january 23
it's not
reality
to me that people would
not love shellshag, as a band, but
people.

january 22 information is EVERYTHING. the universe is ENDLESS.
remind
me to never
go to this class stoned, lest
i think about universal
sizes.

january 21
okay.
if you think it
will help if i get my
chest x-rayed, i'll do it, but i'll
keep them.

january 20 inaugural hats
wearing
a hat like that,
ms franklin, is one great
way to steal the show from the PRES
IDENT.

january 19 unbelievable
it is
an absolute
truth that i have school this
week, yet i find it not to be
believed.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

january 18 on julie doucet's 365 days
while i
have heeded your
suggestions, i feel i
must see this thing all the way through
a year.

january 17
backstage
pass. thurston moore.
what is going on here
anyway? i have to fucking
go home.

january 16 really, i'm sick of it.
if you
blame me for you
fucking up this song one
more time, i will tell everyone
what hap-

january 15
low key
karaoke
thursday. when my heckles
go unnoticed, i know it's time
to leave.

january 14
rare form
practice goes so
well. we play the song i
wrote and it is a punk god damn
anthem.

january 13
now that
i've been sick for
six weeks, in my layman's
opinion, i am mere minutes
from death.

january 12 season three is a better analogy, but we're past that.
if i
am carrie (and
i believe i am), when
am i meeting big in san fran
cisco?

january 11 enough already.
i swear
you didn't show
up to practice because
you didn't want to see me. i
get it.

january 10
a week
ago, things seemed
clearer, easier and
more conscionable than ever
before.

january 9
that, with
ten dollars in
your pocket, you intend
to spend nine at a show baffles
my brain.

january 8 5am at the second chance saloon.
we get
wasted and flirt
like it's 2005.
it might as well be, though, the way
we act.

january 7
if our
band didnt end
up being so good, on
accident, i'd be mad you quit
for real.

january 6 on completionisting.
nip/tuck
returns for a
god knows what season and
god knows why i must finish what
i start.

january 5 cycles.
i have
YELLED at you for
what i hope, (but know) will
(not) be the last time. never will
this end.

january 4
pick you
up at the air
port, watch a movie, things
fall back into place, but less room
in bed.

january 3
yes, this
show is great and
yes, i am drunk enough
and yes, you validated me
so much.

january 2
every
time i venture
west to nj, it's more
apparent it will never be
for me.

january 1
polar
bear swim cancels
out vomiting on the
train, but won't erase memories,
pictures.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

hello.

i am having a miserable time deciding to stop this at january in tribute to a new year, continue to march when i started, not stop in march and work this out indefinitely, or begin altogether anew.

rest assured, you will be the first to know.

-lauren

Saturday, January 3, 2009

special bonus edition: the forgotten wsabhs

march 9, 2008
even if
you're still as lame
as i know you must be,
your new girlfriend has my exact
same name.

april 3, 2008
in hind
sight (is hindsight
one word?) i never gave
this an official welcome; bon
voyage.

only
starting writing
a novel makes it seem
more impossible than never

april 20, 2008
bakesale betty, let down your hair.

what i
wouldn't do for
the perfect lemon square
in lieu of typical sunday
brunch fare.

june, 2008
on libation based delusions.

i should,
someday, be so
perfectly content to
lead a quiet existence, just
tea, wine.
december 31
this year!
good riddance to
bad rubbish, i say. see
you in the next great two thousand
and whine.

december 30
pho and
dress shopping and
constant kvetching across
the city as we trek to find
dessert.

december 29
new bangs
for a new year.
a new haircut! maybe
this is the year i'll finally
keep up.