Posts Tagged ‘language’

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I found a message in a bottle

by Secret Vespers on November 9, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Posted In: Lovesick

I found a message in a bottle. The bottle was buried, only the cork visible, so I had to dig it out, wondering how it had come so far inland. But then, who says every bottle with a message has to be thrown into an ocean? The message itself was indecipherable. That there is a [...]

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ideas are never the problem

by Secret Vespers on April 5, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Posted In: Lovesick

I haven’t been able to write. I have ideas, ideas are never the problem. Rather, ideas are exactly the problem: they keep me awake at night, sabotage any attempt to capture them, turn against me on the page. So I printed my old stories and cut them into pieces. I shuffled the small ones and [...]

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The Canvas

by Secret Vespers on January 6, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Posted In: Story

I am begging you to intervene. And no, I am not naïve. I know how you are. You take me for some blank mute thing that just waits for a painter to grace my skin with art. I watch you gallery visitors every day; you all look at me the same. You bourgeoisie, you hipsters, [...]

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Asterisk & Pound

by Secret Vespers on January 6, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Posted In: Story

I met Pound on the bench where I eat lunch, on the plaza that connects my office tower to three others. Nothing on that plaza is accidental other than my encounter with Pound. Pound wore a hoodie that day. No one wears a hoodie in the telecom district–no one who eats lunch on the plaza. [...]

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Exclamation Bird

by Secret Vespers on October 12, 2009 at 12:00 am
Posted In: Comic
sometimes the best word isn't a word

When you are at a loss for words, where do you go? If you could have a hero mechanical animal, who would it be, and do you like your technology sleek or clunky?

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“Me” Broadcast

by Secret Vespers on April 29, 2009 at 12:00 am
Posted In: Comic
another re-run

How long do you listen to this kind of broadcast before you change the station?

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A Bag of Dried Mangoes

by Secret Vespers on March 28, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Posted In: Lovesick

I don’t have a plan in the world. I have the wide open sky and a bag of dried mangoes. My last girlfriend called them slices of sunshine. I have kept the phrases my friends and I made up. A teenager is “a case of ginger ale”, empty praise from the human resources director is [...]

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Found Poetry

by Secret Vespers on March 22, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Posted In: News

As Timothy Green puts it, “Poetry is everywhere… It happens by accident all the time.” The idea behind his Found Poetry Project is to see what happens when you look for those accidents. Maybe a note on your power bill sounds like a haiku, or a message your drunk friend left sounds like free association. [...]

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Without Ever Planning to Meet

by Secret Vespers on August 17, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Posted In: Lovesick

I want to meet you without ever planning to meet, sit beside you on the subway the very moment you decide, the toymaker convention being in town, you must grab a stranger and crash it. This is a wrong stop for both of us, a place we’ve never been. It is no place to remain [...]

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Open Book

by Secret Vespers on June 6, 2008 at 12:05 am
Posted In: Comic
hidden in plain view

Do you ever suspect someone is hiding behind their confessions?

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