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I feel like being a prolific blog writer of questionable quality. This is just my current mood, and with my track record, two blog entries, two days in a row, is prolific for me. It's quite an easy achievement. Instant gratification is fun.

Anyway, I just lost about two hours of my life on an internet provider's support line, AND MY PROBLEM WASN'T FIXED! Do you think they'll laugh if I send them a bill for two hours of my life? You never know, those two hours might come in handy... ...

When I look at photographs of my childhood I am always struck by how young we all were, my parents and grandparents, my brother and sister and myself, and by how beautiful we all were. My parents in particular seem caught in a lovely light of youth and health. At the time they seemed so prosaic to me. I loved them-then and now-but they did not seem beautiful. In fact, I would venture to say that I, impossible as it seems, took them for granted. I have tried not to do that for years, but it doesn't ...

It is of course the time of year for my favorite holiday. And I figured, what would be more appropriate than something along the same theme so often used by my favorite writer, who should go without introduction, but just in case someone actually doesn't know. Yes I mean Poe!!!

Buried Alive

Feel the darkness closing in
feel the air growing thick
thick the feeling of apprehension
thick are walls closing in
in the earth I descend ...

Sitting too long at the squeeze
texting
my left leg turns clubfoot.
Touching flesh, it feels like zombies might
and after the flush
I drag my dead weight bedwise
to wait on sense returning.

Purely for my own selfish reasons, here are the last few songs added to my phone (which doubles as a Mp3 player):

• Vanilla by British India - I think I like this due to residual adolescent tendancies.
• Little Lion Man by Mumford and Sons - Awesome song, may be getting sick of it already, due to over playing by myself and the radio station.
• The Reeling by Passion Pit - I relate to this. Listen to the words!
• Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine - Her voice! She could sing

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