Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Ashlee Simpson- My incessant ramblings that just stroll through my brain incessantly.
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Monday, July 11, 2011
If You Were Smart, Than Dunce Would not be Your Only Vocabulary Word
I'm afraid that my boyfriend is an idiot.
He tries, but to know avail.
And he's cute,
polite,
And amazing in bed but he's not smart and it's starting to really get to me.
What's worse is he thinks he's smart.
I'll admit he is pretty clever, which is probably why he thinks he's so smart.
But he's not at all an intellectual.
And that's real smartness.
When you can not just read a book but actually comprehend and enjoy it.
All he reads are Yu-gi-oh! cards.
He thinks Obama is a good president, but he doesn't know why. His excuse is, "He's better than Bush."
And if he had truly been listening, we would have known that the words, "Bush is better than Obama," never escaped my lips.
And why would it?
Bush was a bad president too, no doubt.
But he likes Obama because Obama is black.
He likes Yu-gi-oh! because it is a nerdy game with strategy. It makes him feel smart, the same way being clever makes him feel smart.
But I need him to read a book. The newspaper. I need him to sit through an actual conversation where I don't have to pretend that I'm ghetto-fab.
Because my boyfriend is a first class idiot and idiots scare the hell out of me.
Posted by Charmaine Gray at 7:59 AM 0 comments
Labels: idiots
Saturday, July 9, 2011
When you chase your own tail,
You end up biting your own ass.
Instead, keep your head forward,
Focused on the future.
Never dwell on the past.
Just use it as a mirror
To reflect your present.
Posted by Charmaine Gray at 8:06 AM 0 comments
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Music, Sweet Music
There are bruises on my knees and paper confetti caked into my hair.
My wristband, neon green, is still tight on my wrist,
And the sweat.
The sweat is seeping from every fucking pore on my body.
It smells like the zoo. Pits and dreadlocks thrusting themselves in my face so the stenches sear my nostrils.
God, I've never been in an orgy before, but this must be pretty damn close.
I feel like an Ancient Roman yuppie.
I throw myself into the middle of the throng and let myself sway with the human waves to the shore.
The stage.
Slamming fists.
Banging heads.
Stomping feet.
I want to fuck this crowd.
The music.
I pour it over my body like water from a shower head.
This is too good for me, too much for me. But I need more before I collapse to the ground.
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Saturday, June 25, 2011
I Am A Rare Obscurity
I used to be inspired by Pluto because its planethood was stolen by some dumb scientists who were bored.
I would draw Pluto and his moon, Sharon. With beavers roaming around on its surface. I worte about Pluto and Sharon in poetry.
Now I feel like Pluto.
Stripped away from everything I thought I knew for the mere fact that I'm too small of a rock to be given a chance.
Posted by Charmaine Gray at 1:13 PM 0 comments
Sabotage
I don't enjoy hating who I am.
But sometimes confidence is
too expensive to buy. Wallow-
ing in the lack of self esteem
becomes easy with a telly, fatty
foods, and a sharpie to draw on
myself during commercials.
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Labels: confidence, food, self esteem, telly