First Column!

Hit the stands yesterday -- not the correct "hammer" or byline, but it is at least the actual column that I wrote!

http://www.lsureveille.com/opinion/hammertime-objectification-should-be-absent-from-modern-porn-1.1822291

songs i can't listen to since my grandmother died:

i'll fly away
uncloudy day
i found a reason
casimir pulaski day

"tuesday night at the bible study
we lift our hands and pray over your body
but nothing ever happens

and in the morning when you finally go
and the nurse runs in with her head hung low
and the cardinal hits the window

in the morning in the winter shade
on the first of march, on the holiday
i thought i saw you breathing

oh the glory that the lord has made
and the complications when I see his face
in the morning in the window

oh the glory when he took our place
but he took my shoulders and he shook my face
and he takes and he takes and he takes"

bye, summer 09

"But now we must pick up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on

And here's where your mother sleeps
And here is the room where your brothers were born
Indentions in the sheets
Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore
And it's so sad to see the world agree
That they'd rather see their faces fill with flies
All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes"

Excuses, excuses

Sorry, little blog, that you have been neglected. I've had a pretty tumultuous summer and will hopefully tend to you better once school starts.

Love,
Me