my spoon is too big
what it is
what it was
sign my guestbookie
design
host
i like food!

nothing chunky or piecey

sushi

brownie batter

did i mention no chunks of anything

ice cream

peanut butter hot fudge sundaes

i live in a giant bucket

i am ainslee's mom

i love:
music

college football

allison janney

felicity huffman

and anything written by aaron sorkin rocks.

i hate:
hypocrisy

and most republicans,

although i realize that might be redundant.

i want to live every day like my last, not in a state of fear but of appreciation but i haven't mastered that yet."

go visit my peeps

chnacat


2007-09-07
Mercy as a Default

Mercy as a Default

You can taste on her lips all the men she�s gone through � probably some of your own � and still feel the physical turmoil and that absence of emotion she�s experienced with every one of them. And somehow you're adopting what is supposed to be the other person's role, the one you've always been far too self-absorbed to play, because you're whispering shh, it�ll all be okay as she cries into your chest.

This is supposed to be what you do - you�ve made her choices and her mistakes and her current context is the only one in which you�ll admit them. There is a strategic reason you do it though, you wonder if that�s her reason too. You�re silent now and then startled by your own thought that maybe other people�s silence, in the past, was the product of your current reasoning, rather than the offer of absolution that perhaps you mistook it for. More evidence of your self-absorption. Something for which you feel no need to apologize or regret, even now, and actually what you think you should have re-embraced before this ever occurred.

You know she�s crying into your chest because she�s never known what to do with her awkward body, overused and underplayed, smeared with sex and a tinge of regret, and mixed with the intensity of the moment. Like a painting, you think, and draw her in for another kiss as evidence that you're accepting.

You try to forget that on the rare occasions you're accepting, it's always been of the undeserved; it's why you got married in a past life and stayed with the other for the better part of your twenties. And she wraps her long limbs around your shoulders and around your waist; and you won�t think about the fact that the feeling won�t still be there the next day.

(You question that as her touch leaves your mind devoid of coherent thought and your body semi-liquefied. You moan her name over and over again and when it�s over there�s just the heat that spills out of your body leaving a comfortable chill, and the heavy scent of sex between her sheets.)

You lay on your side; your body spooned against her longer one. You�re not supposed to be behind her, even your length dictates against this position. But you're tracing circles and stars on her back until one of you is unconscious, though you can�t tell which one. You reside temporarily in the delicious place between sleep and waking and you try, in vain, not to leave it. But you're evicted once again.

The next thing you remember is that morning comes before it�s due and you�re back to the cat and mouse routine she seems to get off on.

And more days like this, and more nights, and you start forgetting what your own house looks like and smells like; and you think that maybe it doesn�t matter, but you can�t decide.

You leave shirts at her house, and underwear, sometimes on purpose but usually because it�s just one of those things that happen, and soon you have your own toothbrush there and then it's harder to breathe because you think maybe you're a couple. No matter how illogical, it's the toothbrush that slaps you with the fact that you've been here too much too often too long, that you're treading on dangerous ground; no matter that your clothes have taken up half of her closet for longer than you even notice.

(You refuse to accept it when one of her bras is simply not to be found, that maybe you've fallen in love with being one half of two, and because damn it, this one has to work out; you need it to. You�ll forgive and forget if that�s what it takes to make this last. Again you realize you're playing the wrong part of two here. because you're not supposed to be the one forgiving and forgetting, you've always demanded that of the other person, through subtle and manipulative ways, even if the manipulation includes making it necessary.)

And yet ... you're forgiving and forgetting. You�ll admire her curves. You�ll moan when it�s needed. You�ll bend your wishes to fit your lover�s, because it�s the kind of person you are, is what you tell her in a non-convincing voice. As you yell at her later, trying your hardest not to throw punches but only a nice little fit, because fits you can control, they�re still yours, when apparently everything else is turning into ours.

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