Archive for October 2009
When She Left
Posted by: pcloeb on: 29/10/2009
- In: writing
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i remember the way the vast expanse of terrible carpet overwhelmed our room
the mirrored closet doors that caught my horror just in time to throw it back to me
the wretched ceiling fan that loved us as much as it could muster on late nights in july
but this
this was september
all that was left was the mattress
she [...]
You and I
Posted by: pcloeb on: 27/10/2009
You and I
Your vanilla milkshake tongue sticks to my mouth like
sandpaper and I pull my insides from you.
I like chocolate.
I can see your pores
sweating makeup and taxi cab exhaust.
And that night on the subway sitting across
from the girl with the lily-of-the-valley dress
I noticed she was with a boy who didn’t know
what he did to deserve [...]
Into You
Posted by: pcloeb on: 27/10/2009
your hands were explaining ’soft’ to me
but i was more concerned with calculating angles
you seemed content enough to dissect my defense mechanisms
as i wordlessly struggled to plug into yours
i was drawing lines with your pencil
(we want nothing to stay permanent)
to connect point a to point b
and to separate one thing from another
and to highlight and [...]
Fifteen
Posted by: pcloeb on: 25/10/2009
He rarely speaks to her
just flips her yellowed pages
with his eyes
comes home and builds her a fire
beneath her skirt
it’s hard chopping wood
feels more like murder these days
he sees faces in the bark
still
he turns the color of her cheeks
like the volume dial
in his rust bitten Camaro
she moans like the owl
he hears taunting him
each time he lifts [...]
Etiquette After Sex
Posted by: pcloeb on: 23/10/2009
Etiquette After Sex
You
sleeping
leaked dreams in my hollow chest,
finger painted them.
Afraid to touch too hard.
Knife and spoon gentleman.
Bedroom gardener
afraid to remove your poison ivy gloves
and infect me all over.
Roses sprouted from my mattress;
the food of love.
I was afraid to swallow them,
like the red wine stain I left on the pillow
that I screamed into sometimes,
the watershed of [...]
Movie Review: Zombieland (2009)
Posted by: pcloeb on: 21/10/2009
Zombieland
Directed by Ruben Fleischer
Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin
Runtime: 87 minutes
In Wide Release Starting October 2
To be honest, I didn’t want to like Zombieland. My first experience with the film was seeing the poster nestled between a wall and a poster for The Vampire’s Assistant. Seeing [...]
On Writing (again)
Posted by: pcloeb on: 18/10/2009
I am not sure what it means that I want to run here whenever I am despairing, I am unsure if it is really so great a thing to have this at the end of the rainbow, to have it as my great consolation, to be able to tell myself, At least you have that. [...]
Movie Reviews: Peter and Vandy (2009)
Posted by: pcloeb on: 18/10/2009
Peter and Vandy
Written and Directed by Jay DiPietro
Starring: Jason Ritter, Jess Weixler, Jesse L. Martin, and Tracie Thomas
Runtime: 95 minutes
In Limited Release Starting October 9
Relationships can be ugly things. When Peter (Jason Ritter, Freddy vs. Jason) tells Vandy (Jess Weixler, Teeth) ”I love you” during a cold weather picnic looking out at the Statue [...]
For the New York broken hearted, of which there are many
Posted by: pcloeb on: 12/10/2009
We tell it to anyone
who will listen. We need
a second opinion. We need
a fresh pair of eyes. We need
to do this so we can try
to make sense of it.
Because
when we tell it to ourselves, we can’t.
We try to keep it
inside, believing our business
is our business and our personal
baggage is ours to carry, and our drama
isn’t [...]
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