Category Archives: Writing

Typewriter Ignorance

I like the typewriter sound. Lots of people say that ‘typewriter’ is the longest word you can write using on the keys of one row of the keyboard but that’s not true. Then again, no one has ever heard of … Continue reading

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Procrastination

This needs to stop. You only have so much time, on this little dot. So make it last, and write it down, so that something’s there, when you are not.

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Five Very Short Stories

1. A familiar face. It means nothing now. 2. A cheer. A thud. A gasp. 3. The letter burned, never sent. 4. Music. A body. He hears not. 5. A plane engine rattles. Silence.

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Sand

He saw a universe in his hand, a universe of sand, and he let loose his grip. His final trip.

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Chained

And so I prostrate myself, An unwilling acolyte, My minds eye blinded, And dreams out of sight.

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A poem for my friend, Nicole

Your shell falls to the ground, A discarded robe, a citrus peel, And there naked in the cold, Lies your warm heart-core for all to hold.

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Mitosis

It’s time for a change here on Vestigial Thoughts. I’ve decided to leave this space for posts that really are my vestigial thoughts and my more personal posts and to move what’s left, mostly my writing about music to a new blog … Continue reading

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A short farce of infinite meaning…

Bird: And so in short, and to put it most simply, meaning is created by the juxtaposition of form and content and content is imparted upon our utterances by celestial means mediated by the particulars to which they are entangled … Continue reading

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Sleep

I am the ocean omnipotent, the unrelenting sea , My current flows, My body swells, Crashing in cacophony. I am dust on the wind, Struck by wave and particle, My presence is revealed Dazzling, fleeting, longing, No longer am I concealed … Continue reading

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120 words.

Linked, more or less. Silk, salt, talk, corn, knock, call, lie, eat, thirst, tame, envisage, eyes, set, trail, liason, night, trust, stand, die, east, trivial, land, drip, pond, dial, late, ever, rest, tired, dance, celestial, late, evening, gate, elevated, drisle, … Continue reading

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