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When I was a girl I filled my days with dreams: I built grand castles on distant moons, Holding court over a smiling, nodding multitude, Always admired and always the perfectly happy princess- In those dreams. In the nights of my youth, I’d often have dreams of flying: The wonderful sensation of weightlessness, Combined with the eerie perspective- Above and far beyond the cold, solid earth. For some time now, I’ve harbored great dreams of you: Your beauty is timelessly spellbinding and unequa...

Okay, so the good news is I got a "merit" raise this year. The bad news- my merits's only worth an extra $0.24/hr. That's miniscule- that's only (before taxes) an extra $499.20 over the course of the whole year. And it doesn't even have the dignity of being a normal number - like 25 cents or 20 cents - no, "somebody parsed out exactly how much more you were worth, honey, and you just didn't quite make the U.S. Quarter!" I would actually have preferred being given no raise to the insult of bei...

Life is the ocean and the shore, Powerful, boundless, beautiful. Rising and falling in a regular pattern, Its lovely dance remains unique: No two sunrises are ever the same. You and I in this ocean are small shells, Fragile, countless, miniscule. Sinking and surfacing at different times, Our small dance inside the dance persists: Moved without moving and found without finding. Love is the chaos of a trillion shells moving, Infinite, common, random. Finding and parting through timeless chaos, ...

You did not feel The jolt of electricity That shot up through my body from the center of the earth on its way to the sky, But only noticed The thunder that roared a second and an eternity behind.

Before I became a nobody, I remember feeling like a somebody, Whose morning sun rose bright on possibility, Whose evening sky shone clear, wide, and infinite, Whose time was purposeful and pleasure driven- But all of that was before: Before I wore a phone cord- A tangled fiber optic snake, Hissing a satire of hospitality, With a fatal vocal venom- Around my neck. Before I drug a desk- Such an immense, unmoving weight, Littered by redundancy, Polished with the sweat of useless effort- By my le...