February 2012
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Of Feeling and Parasites
The assumption is that someone else, somewhere else, is having a better time than you are. The assumption is that someone else can fix you. The assumption is that you need to be fixed.
The loneliness is modern but mercurial. It rears it’s ugly head every time the phone doesn’t vibrate and the screen doesn’t flicker with that familiar ‘thumbs up’, telling you that in this very...
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January 2012
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Mind The Gap
We are the legions of the overcaffeinated and the underslept, the overworked and the underfucked. Bleary eyed, we ride the subway plagued with apathetic rage and functional hysteria.
Beneath every cracked smile, a brewing hurricane. Behind every “I’m okay, thanks”, a dam that’s aching to burst.
“Until when?”, we ask.
At night, we self medicate. We...
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I just need a man with a brogue to read to me on these lazy grey afternoons.
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Boy crazy.
December 2011
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Antony and the Johnsons - Christina’s Farm
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It’s what keeps us up at night and it’s the reason we can’t wake up in the morning.
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Our good fortune allows us to feel a sadness our parents didn’t have time...
Sometimes they don’t text back, sometimes they do.
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