ghosts misstree flicker in the background of every thought, resting heavy, faded hands on my shoulder when i need it least. each person i have met and left is a ghost. their tales are beautiful and tragic, but they always end the same. 010127 ... birdmad appear and fade away 010127 ... silentbob those emotions that tell you you're being messed with. wake up calls. Don't worry! 010128 ... belly fire a soft sigh before the receiver was hung; a voice from the elevator shaft below - "Eleven!"; a sharp slide of a chair against the floor of the empty neighbouring apartment; the thrice daily disconnected sounds of ghosts seemingly living their lives in their own linear oblivion. 031231 ... flux no need to fear ghosts you're ready to kill again... 110310 ... lostgirl oh--you haunting souls what are you doing here? making a point? or perhaps you're just expressing the need to make your presence known here and there there's no need for fear or so i'm told alas, you are merely playing your game just like the rest of us don't_mess_with_me 110311 ... cocoon laura marling - ghosts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-vbyIkkHiQ 110311 ... raze he sees them in the dark before he falls asleep sometimes. by now there have been hundreds. men and women of all ages, each one a perfectly formed physical specimen, none of them people he's ever seen before. all of them uninvited guests in his bedroom. maybe they're nothing more than inventions of his half asleep mind. i'm not so sure. sometimes they're just standing there, staring at him, looking like they're waiting for something. sometimes they're walking toward him. last night a woman was carrying a large bowl filled with something he couldn't see and she was trying to dump its contents on top of him. "maybe they're trying to tell you something," i said. "have you ever thought about talking to them instead of attacking them?" he doesn't care what they have to say. he kicks at them until they disappear, trying to kill the already dead, when all he's really doing is fighting with the air. 210802 ... raze the last one he saw was a woman who flew past his bed. she smiled at him, blew him a kiss, and then she was gone. 210901 ... raze this time it was a woman standing in his doorway. she wore her hair in a flipped bob. he ran toward her. she disappeared. back to the sixties where she came from, he thought. 211001 ... raze a man was walking toward him two or three nights ago. he fought him off with a flurry of punches. "he had a face like a bullfrog's ass," he told me. "i think his name was huey. he had that look about him." 211103 ... raze another man. he couldn't see his face. he didn't try to attack this one. he just flipped him the bird and said, "fuck_off," and the man disappeared. 211117 ... raze not a person, but a mask, with hands balled into fists that stretched all the way to the ceiling. 211218 ... unhinged winter makes them more visible 211218 ... raze an old aboriginal man with long, curly hair. "get the fuck out of my house!" he shouted. the man did as he was told. 220208 ... raze a man with a beard and a woman without one were having sex on top of the photocopier. he didn't attack them or yell at them. sometimes, as billy_joel suggested, you have to leave a tender moment alone. 220303 ... raze a young boy and his father lunged at him. he punched them to make them disappear. 220312 ... raze a dark-skinned woman stood in front of his closet door with her two young children. a small couch that doesn't exist in the waking world was beside them. he thrashed around until the whole family faded from view. 220323 ... raze two nights in a row, a crazed man sprinted toward his bed. he fought him off. another man the size of a hamster peeked out from his hiding place behind the laundry basket, smiling like he had something to hide. when he took a closer look, the little rodent man was gone. 220406 ... raze on one_side of the bed, the suitcase i brought with me on weekend visits to my mother's house was dancing. on the other side, a woman's face smiled and rolled around without a body to keep it from thinking it was a bowling ball. 220426 ... raze a dark-haired man dangled from his ceiling, filming him with a massive black video camera on a dolly. when the lens was almost close enough to kiss his face, the filmmaker vanished along with his apparatus. 220509 ... raze a man with a beard and a baseball cap sat at the edge of his bed. "what the fuck is this?" he said, and the visitor retreated into darkness. 220521 ... raze a monkey was spying on him, not behind his laundry basket, but inside it. 220611 ... raze "last night was a free night," he said. "nobody showed up." the night before that, two men tried to get into his bed. they drove him from sleep and into the stiff arms of the couch in the nearest thing this house has to a living room. two nights later, a man and woman sat on the photocopier. they weren't getting it on. he told them to fuck off anyway. and they did. 220723 ... raze an elf dressed in red rode a crimson tricycle in midair. 220904 ... raze a shirtless man with wavy hair past his shoulders cradled a small child in his arms. 230123 ... raze "who did you see this time?" i asked. "some fuckhead with a red jacket," he said. "looked like he was real, so i leaned over, told him to fuck off, and he disappeared." 230205 ... raze a man with a goatee and a red cape. he thought it was the devil. 230226 ... raze hector from "breaking bad", inching toward him in his wheelchair with something evil in his eyes. 230405 ... raze three different people in a matter of minutes. one man looked like a toy soldier. his head touched the ceiling. 230414 ... raze a troll doll with the face of a woman he lived with once. 230425 ... raze a woman sat cross-legged on the floor until his voice shamed her into leaving. 230426 ... raze "what did the last one look like?" i asked him. "i couldn't tell. i just told them to fuck off." 230517 ... raze this time he saw me. i was standing in his doorway. i rose up like i was being carried by an elevator. he watched my body shoot right through the ceiling of the house. "you didn't tell me to fuck off?" i said. "no," he said. "i wouldn't do that to you. you're not a ghost." 230523 ... raze a group of faceless people. the only one with any recognizable features was a man who smiled while pulling down his pants. 230609 ... raze a short woman with reddish brown hair. she took her time leaving. 230619 ... raze a small man wielding the base of a wicker basket as a weapon, poised to attack. 230620 ... raze a woman with a dark tan held her index finger in front of her pursed lips. 230705 ... raze another woman. this one dressed like an organ grinder's monkey. 230802 ... raze a grenadier guard wearing yellow instead of the customary red and black. larger than any man should have been. "it's good when they go away," he said. 230902 ... raze a raccoon resting on top of a framed picture. "at least it wasn't a person this time," i said. "we're trending in the right direction," he said. 230911 ... raze not a living thing, but a cardboard box full of indiscernible objects about to be dumped on his head. 231005 ... raze will smith was about to sing to him. he could tell by the smarmy look on his face. he had to yell at him three times to make him leave. after he was gone, the face of a massive sunflower fastened itself to the blinds that blanket his bedroom window. five hundred insects crawled across its florets. 231007 ... raze a curly-haired kid with a flashlight. 231021 ... raze a tiny native with white cloth wound around his head. 231112 ... raze archie bunker was standing beside his bed making one of his goofy faces. he clapped his hands and he went away. "it could have been worse," he said. "it could have been edith. maybe i'll get all the cable shows now." 231122 ... raze a massive basset hound that appeared to be the canine equivalent of a kit car. each body part was a different colour, with a corresponding number, as if the animal were a puzzle someone had put together. 231203 ... raze a man with a face made of bees. 231205 ... raze first, an old homeless man climbed into bed with him and brought his own blanket. then a man in a monochrome uniform stood in the hall. and then he saw a bright white light in the shape of a single-handed axe. 231211 ... raze a bearded jester. 240107 ... raze a red and white can of cleanser flew into the wall. the only word he could make out on the label was "up". 240114 ... raze a bald man ran toward him, poised to attack. later that same night, he saw a hulking creature with the head of a fly. 240127 ... raze a plainclothes police officer in a pale blue shirt. 240213 ... raze after one man held a gun to the head of another, a tarantula the size of a tv screen stood on top of the photocopier. each joint in its legs was a collage of bright colour. 240219 ... raze a little girl with pigtails gave him an evil smile. 240224 ... raze he watched me fall to the floor, as if i'd just rolled out of a bunk bed in my sleep. 240323 ... Soma backwards ghosts are just stsohg so really if you can get on the other side of a ghost they are pretty harmless. 240324 ... raze a military officer marched toward him. 240503 ... raze after a few months without any visitors, he saw a man and a woman. he couldn't make out any distinguishing features. they were just two tall moving shapes in the dark. 240623 ... raze a man left the room carrying a mattress encased in plastic. 240630 ... raze an old woman. short. black glasses. her brown hair streaked with grey. 240705 ... raze an even more wizened robert de niro walked toward him. he punched him in the face and told him to fuck off. 240710 ... raze a very large woman in a blue polka dot dress walked into his closet. 240712 ... raze he saw me again. this time i had a plastic shopping bag tied around my waist like a diaper and a big smile on my face. 240722 ... raze a long red cylinder with gold metal studs. his half_asleep brain figured it for a nuclear torpedo. 240724 ... raze an old woman walked into the room. then there was a man with his face pressed against the photocopier, bleeding from an open wound on his forehead. 240727 ... raze a pregnant woman with her hair hidden by a hijab. she stood and stared at him. 240728 ... raze there was a second dresser beside his bed, with the drawers removed and the contents strewn all over the floor. 240729 ... raze a girl with a brown ponytail in a red and black checkered jacket rode a bicycle toward his bed. he reached out to grab the handlebars and she was gone. 240730 ... raze a group of children huddled together in a wagon. 240809 ... raze more children. or maybe the same kids again. this time they were all clutching cameras. 240810 ... raze a bottle of salad_dressing, half-hidden by a pair of shorts. "i think it was catalina," he said. 240813 ... raze a bearded man gave him a demented grin. "like jack nicholson in 'the shining'," he said. 240822 ... raze a white dog wearing a checkered red plaid hat wanted to jump into bed with him. 240827 ... raze al sharpton sat on a small chair wearing a suit and tie. 240829 ... raze richard t. jones was in character as bruce van exel from "judging amy". all he did was stand and stare. 240911 ... raze his brother offered him a pistol. he didn't say what it was for. 240914 ... raze two containers of mixed greens hovered above his head. 240921 ... raze a man scaled his bedroom door like a spider. all he could see was his face and the hairless patch of skin in the center of his head. 241003 ... raze an arrangement of flowers, this time on top of his laundry basket. 241019 ... raze a woman walked into his room wearing jeans and a short leather jacket. he said she looked a bit like kate beckinsale. 241103 ... raze a young billy connolly was lying beside him in bed. 241214 what's it to you? who go blather from