Collecting My Muses

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Collecting My Musical Muses

Lenka - The Show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI8Ysr1BgmQ

Bowerbirds - Northern Lights

Where does this go?

A three-year-old boy in a red rain jacket grinned and said hello to me as he walked with his mother to the library. My camera is in a box in a storage unit. I wish I had a picture of that boy. He is brave in a way I am not.

I had a dream my dog died, and I woke up breathless.

I checked on her when I got out of bed. We do it at the last minute, we forget to pet our pets until we think they're sick, we forget we love to run until we can't use our legs anymore.

Pulling my hair makes it grow faster, pull out the aches.

My friend is afraid to say, "I love you."

My collection of folk lyrics is growing. I steal them from your facebook status updates. I collect them on folded up pieces of paper hidden in my pockets. I do it to make myself feel better about being the same as everyone else.

Our lips are in competition.

Collecting My Musical Muses - Robert Francis, Junebug

Beginnings or endings

My boy's hair is the red sea, parted and flowing through my fingers.

Stalker in the Bookstore/You get so alone at times that it just makes sense*

*by Charles Bukowski

I was friends with you after three seconds

of your phone conversation.

I know.

I don't want to go to church on Sundays, too,

and sometimes my voice sounds depressed.

There's definitely been talk of marriage counseling

and using silly voices to calm our nerves

because sometimes you can distract yourself

with the music you make at the cabin.

Your boots were cute, and I'm boring at times, too.

We both want him to accept that,

but we can't be okay with it ourselves.

We're too much, sometimes, too bright

and shining to handle it.

We want the same thing.

We want to make something lasting and smooth

before we get to tired and just go to bed

after late night phone calls to him.

Collecting My Musical Muses