soma
corgan iha wrsetzky Nothing left to say


And all I've left to do


Is run away


From you


And she led me on, down


With secrets I can't keep





Close your eyes and sleep


Don't wait up for me


Hush now don't you speak


To me





Wrapped my hurt in you


And took my shelter in that pain


The opiate of blame


Is your broken heart, your heart





So now I'm all by myself


As I've always felt


I'll betray my tears


To anyone caught in our ruse of fools





One last kiss for me...yeah


One last kiss good night





Didn't want to lose you once again


Didn't want to be your friend


Fulfilled a promise made of tin


And crawled back to you





I'm all by myself


As I've always felt


I'll betray myself


To anyone, lost, anyone but you





So let the sadness come again


On that you can depend on me, yeah


Until the bitter, bitter end of the world, yeah


When god sleeps in bliss





And I'm all by myself


As I've always felt


And I'll betray myself


To anyone
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MisterFunkadelic in the City

South of Market

spent a summer there just before i got my certificate to corrupt, disrupt and otherwise educate the minds of our youth
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unhinged one of my FAVORITE smashing pumpkings songs

*sigh*
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silentbob mellon collie is nostalgia for dreamers 011008
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painted marbles this reminds me of aldous huxley's brave_new_world and that book was psycho 030223
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silentbob hindu drink, religious ceremony, hallucinagenic, nectar of a plant 030223
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Soma Once long ago had I another name
In cyberspaces and text-filled walls
While daily in my home's own halls
A different uttered oft refrain

For years I failed to leave behind
The sense of your "supposed to be..."
I wept and cried and longed to flee
The thoughts psyche confined

"The body of an organism" termed
gave Soma birth and with intent
She fled on legs to start anew
And after years of hurt affirmed
She reconciled a mind once rent
My self no longer "me" and "you"
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raze i miss your words.

i hope you're doing well.
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tender_square i know we don't really know each other, but i'm glad you're here.

thanks for writing with us.
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e_o_i Hey! I like what you wrote on "beast" - and that reminded me, I wanted to say something welcome-back-ish when I saw you writing here again. And now it's later, because time keeps moving forward, but yes, it's nice to see you blather again. 221107
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e_o_i *on blather 221107
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Soma I appreciate the kind appreciation and acknowledgment. To be observed is both a kindness and a shyness for me. Thank raze for offering me a hand back to blather. 221109
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raze (it's a gift to have you here. thank you for being a vital part of this red_family.) 221109
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raze honest to dogs, i was just thinking about you. and here you are. writing beautiful, powerful things, as always. 230913
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Soma Sometimes i feel like a prodigal child, wandering away then somehow always coming home when the mood strikes me or things are hard. Not that reliable sort, I suppose, hehe 230913
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raze just wanted to say how moved i was by what you wrote on "hopeful" today. and "what a bastard of a feeling to bask in" is such a surprising, stunning turn of phrase. it's good to be reminded of what magic words can weave.

(also, i'd say your flitting in and out just makes it that much more of a great surprise when we get to see you.)
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raze it's so good to have you back. 240110
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Soma Thanks. Sometimes I get a bad idea in my head and obsess over it. I had to get away from my idea to write a number of new-word posts each day relating to the number day of the year it was. The new year was such a shiny opportunity. I went full throttle at it in my phone notes for a week before I finally petered out of momentum.

Honestly, there was no way 364 new words one day, then 365 the next was achievable for me at this point anyways.
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e_o_i It's not the worst or least achievable idea - once I set a goal of cataloguing all the books I had. As if I was a library. In an Excel sheet, by author and title and maybe even publisher and page count.

...Needless to say, I abandoned the project, but it took me a while to convince myself it wasn't worth it (yay, ADHD with OCD tendencies).

About new words, I probably won't do one every day, but I do plan to dip into and add to "prompts." I feel that the gay_whales raze dreamed up deserves a story.

...Anyway, yes, it's good to have you writing here!!
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Soma It seems we share a similar diagnosis, and a similar propensity towards spreadsheets then, e_o_i. I've got quite a few ambitious spreadsheets collecting digital_dust from the fade of that initial new idea fervor.

Thank you for your kind words.
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raze "molded" knocked the wind right out of me. that's one of the most powerful things i've read in recent memory, here or anywhere else. 240115
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raze i'm here to say the same thing about "skirmish" i said about "molded" a month ago.

you're an incredible writer. we're lucky to have you.
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Soma Thank you, Raze. Sometimes I go months what feels like writing the most pedantic shit that is no different than the angst I had at age 17, or having no words. But eventually, something in me breaks and I end up writing something even I think is nice in a fervor of insanity and tears at 2am. I wake up in the morning and go "was that some fever dream? was that even me?" It's one of those things that makes me feel like I am three people in one body, but it's also one of those things that makes me feel like I am not broken at all. 240206
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raze with "tangle", you just turned a blathe into a poem that's also somehow a piece of thought_provoking visual art.

that's all kinds of brilliant right there.
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