Survivor
Writer
Poet
A mirror to hold up to life
Life-ha, you'll never get out of it alive

Keep on surviving
Keep on writing

To do more than survive
But also simply to survive
That which is more than eating and sleeping

To write is to know
To know is to live

A day
Hot and cold
The indifference of the universe

It rained in summer
I went to the dentist
for the way it affected my sleep

Feel empty
Feel full
Hungry, but cannot stand to eat any more
What is 'not hungry'?
There is no equivalent word

Famished
Starving
Malnourished
or otherwise satisfied

Dry
Thirsty
Dehydrated

Maybe simply a compulsion
I'll dilute my blood doing that but
maybe I don't care

Master Chief Commander Villas Boas Riker
Check him for traces of dust

A Ritalin-induced hallucination?
Some kind of withdrawal symtoms?

Never trust a TEEP that's what he'd say
Should have his name tattooed on his eyelids
for the next time someone messes with his reality

There must be some kind of way out of here,
said the Vorlon to the Thief

See an enlisted shrink

They say aliens don't exist
Then I'm down in the casino
with half a Deanna Troi

(17.8.2010)