Escapist
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since: 06-09-02, id: 226703, Profile Updated: 11-18-08
country: USA
Author has written 79 stories for General, General, and Life.

Soon I'll be taking down everything. Until then, I'm putting up everything recent. I've been taking lines from my older poems that I'm scrapping and adding them to new ones.


1. Somber etc reviews
What is an appropriate reaction?
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 3-25-09 - Complete
2. The Back Deck
Prose. Two short scenes.
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 510 - Published: 3-24-09 - Complete
3. Unfortunate Savior Complex reviews
A sloppy bit of overcompensation. He doesn't know how to deal with me.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-21-08 - Complete
4. musicmusicreverence reviews
the title is what I had saved the file as. this is possibly unfinished. music and rock bottom, and the notes and the insides are the same thing.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-18-08 - Complete
5. Imperatives reviews
backyard instructions.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 64 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-18-08 - Complete
6. Door Hinges
pretense. summertime. young.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 183 - Published: 11-18-08 - Complete
7. The Same Poem Since January reviews
bare bones.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-18-08 - Complete
8. Her Concept of Freedom reviews
The act of belonging to someone else.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 186 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 6-13-08 - Complete
9. what's left reviews
The first part: Reflective, referring to the actual situation. The second part: I'm trying to be honest. SummerWinter. And for the record, there's supposed to be brackets, not parentheses.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 1-11-08 - Complete
10. intentional, but not without guilt reviews
This is all I can write.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 1-3-08 - Complete
11. these four walls reviews
I've had trains on my mind lately. Home is still two weeks away. I need something new.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 49 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 12-8-07 - Complete
12. everything coming together reviews
babble. things that have been stirring around in my head lately. my heart is going to be the only thing you'll recognize
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11-8-07 - Complete
13. what it is and what it should be reviews
even smaller. lately.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 32 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 11-6-07 - Complete
14. Wreck reviews
little. stuck in the middle.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 43 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 11-6-07 - Complete
15. this night long and tangled reviews
I am tired of lying to myself.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 51 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 9-19-07 - Complete
16. anger understood to be weary reviews
when everything shuts downyour body and surroundings a lazy drip.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 44 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 7-8-07 - Complete
17. when you think the universe calls you by name reviews
this season.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 67 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 3-8-07 - Complete
18. a while in both directions reviews
winter shrinking everything smaller than the universe.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 65 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 11-25-06 - Complete
19. recognizing everything that they were reviews
-the end of a relationship.
Fiction: General - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 679 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 7-29-06
20. Neighborhood Evangelists reviews
seven lines.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 42 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 7-26-06
21. flushed, selfeffacing reviews
a poet reading his poetry
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 98 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 3-22-06
22. from my corner of the table reviews
observations
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 84 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 1-23-06
23. Balance reviews
like oleander
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 30 - Reviews: 12 - Published: 12-30-05
24. the difference reviews
Five lines.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 33 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 12-21-05
25. what it comes down to reviews
for this month it's biting nails
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 11-11-05
26. Burning Days reviews
Every night during the summer at ten p.m. the train would go streaming past the only house worth spending any time at.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 13 - Published: 9-19-05
27. Sloppy reviews
quiet. I have been Quiet lately.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Reviews: 15 - Published: 9-1-05
28. To, And for, Thank you to reviews
the dedication of a book.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 9-1-05
29. Discord for the Deliberation reviews
His neuroses sounding like a slow rumble of dissolution/WARNING: Do not read this out loud if you have a lisp.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 133 - Reviews: 13 - Published: 7-15-05
30. Invade Their Homes but Take Nothing reviews
Feeling over-the-top. We refuse to believe that we'll be here a second longer than we have to.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 96 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 7-13-05
31. Out for the Eternity reviews
Segregation Commune, with a malnourished exterior. I mean what I said.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 7-3-05
32. Nations, Down This Barrel reviews
The world is gripping a pistol in its hands: 9 lines.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 67 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 7-3-05
33. CrossExaminations Turning Into The, reviews
"We're a mess with each other"
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 145 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 6-26-05
34. and this air will match him reviews
He's a mockery, a quiet derision.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 6-26-05
35. relevant to our silvery white bones reviews
shrinking fingers again. This poem: think con. C-O-N. it all means:
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 79 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 6-12-05
36. the globe from the sunroof reviews
cheesycheesy. I wrote the beginning stanza of this poem in my head much earlier today, and it took all that I had to remember it. 7 lines. Contemplating the world.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 6-11-05
37. as stale as the people they claim to be reviews
Burrowing in blasphemy.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 80 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 6-7-05
38. his mind is like reviews
Exponential decay. Lilac trees. Music so loud that it disrupts any natural functions.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 15 - Published: 5-15-05
39. everything is such a project reviews
-a detached mood. "two people loving to be completely out of order"
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 5-12-05
40. she avoids eye contact like he avoids disease reviews
and last night my mother was weeping at the kitchen table.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 146 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 5-8-05
41. or something along these lines reviews
Can you really blame them? .22 calibers & they're stumbling down the stairs.
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 149 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 5-4-05
42. for the evicted reviews
I Hate Trains
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 205 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 4-30-05
43. we need to just leave it all behind reviews
[Slight] sexual tension, with a hint of nicotine-like, messy concepts of each other. Or maybe the other way around. (I need the absurdity)
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 117 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 4-26-05
44. substance is lacking reviews
/ All of this, and still the idolatry is being broadcast. /
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 104 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 4-22-05
45. I'm Ready reviews
God do I love the snow, but that crazy long winter made me too restless. And death? It doesn't go away.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 235 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 4-19-05
46. Uneasy reviews
I need for it to be summer.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 4-19-05
47. One Good Hour » reviews
These past few nights. My goodness. 2 poems. It's a simpler writing style, this next wave of poems.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 2 - Words: 265 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 4-19-05
48. Post Climactic reviews
The deed is done, so now is the time for [over]reacting. 8 lines.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 3-25-05
49. No Such Luck reviews
-Short, stream of conscious like. staggered and splattered and she claimed it was love.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 114 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 3-21-05
50. Untitled reviews
Pack up your things.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 3-13-05
51. and I told you there was nothing wrong » reviews
Sometimes you lose your grip on things and you're figured out.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 2 - Words: 171 - Reviews: 11 - Updated: 3-13-05 - Published: 7-14-04
52. In Relation to Me » reviews
One-shots, almost all dialogue.
Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,914 - Reviews: 11 - Updated: 3-13-05 - Published: 4-19-04
53. he holds her in his eyes reviews
Galaxies hidden in/Lifetimes rotting in/The pores of his skin
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 109 - Reviews: 12 - Published: 12-4-04
54. We'd Make Such a Situational Pair reviews
Self-absorption still denies the postage stamp.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 256 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 11-5-04
55. the some kind of disorder reviews
A severe sense of loneliness because it's the half-assed rainy days that get me down.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 8-19-04
56. too much alike to be considered similar reviews
Confrontation. "I'm a walking satire/A breathing black eye"
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 181 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 8-10-04
57. knowing it was impossible from the start reviews
(Little Baby Born Blue.) My usual tale of destruction and (metaphorically but maybe not so much) suicidal relationships and are you sick of it yet?
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 282 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 8-6-04
58. the world and quite possibly i'm too naïve reviews
The company I keep and games of control, games that never were any fun.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 152 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 7-18-04
59. my own sense of religion reviews
A rock/roll. Music in all of its glory. "Consecration is this man with crystalline ribs..."
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 162 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 7-14-04
60. when resplendence clogs your senses reviews
"I never claimed to want to live forever," and with that statement I wonder how anyone can have any misgivings.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 174 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 7-14-04
61. Designed Regrets reviews
A person decides at the last minute that they're not ready yet to let anybody into their creative side. It's different from my usual.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 134 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 7-14-04
62. calling out seduction reviews
Everyone has their escape plan, but it's harder to find someone to help carry it out with.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 7-14-04
63. true stories put out of context reviews
This is an explosion, so good luck deciphering it. (I'm the man sitting on the bare couch with the cushions gone and x's on his palms...)
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 318 - Reviews: 12 - Published: 6-20-04
64. intentionally broken hearts reviews
This poem makes me feel dehydrated and I'm almost sure it's a true story. It's about this boy in the corner of the room and I want my name laced around his wrist.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 274 - Reviews: 16 - Published: 6-6-04
65. Beauty in the Unmasked Inhibition reviews
Infatuation and blah. Yes, and blah. It's short. May has not been my month.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 180 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 5-29-04
66. Not Enough Legend reviews
This is babble, possibly pretentious babble. I didn't think about a single word in this poem until after I wrote it. It's a little rushed. I refuse to say that it's my usual. "We were freedom in every wrong sense of the word."
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 192 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 5-18-04
67. littlegirl bopeep reviews
An accident cuts apart the morning.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 12 - Published: 4-16-04
68. As beautiful as I am oblivious reviews
He cries down midnight as I shake under the weight of promise.
Poetry: General - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 225 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 4-6-04
69. Carve the Lyrics into my Cheekbones reviews
Personified Poetry.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 126 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 4-2-04
70. Conventionalized Insanity reviews
"Remember me" it chants, making me revaluate the position of my veins.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 220 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 3-28-04
71. juliet's meeting with the friar reviews
I guess you could call it heartbreak, even though the mediocrity of the word doesn't seem to fit.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 272 - Reviews: 10 - Published: 3-17-04
72. Lollipop Fondant reviews
Carnival smoke and forgotten candy wrappers: It spit me right back out, and I have the pictures to prove it.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 189 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 3-13-04
73. Ms Snow reviews
Drugs. Cocaine. "...teeny tiny lady bugs resting in the particles of my skin And lacey lustrous lady Ms. Snow, how can we just sit here"
Poetry: Life - Rated: T - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 268 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 3-6-04
74. Pipe Cleaner Mission reviews
All barefeet and snarl balls, twigs and weeping leaves... I'm innocuous to the point of indiscretion.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 238 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 2-27-04
75. The Softest Thing I Know reviews
Night. "...Fixated in our candy apple infatuation and both wishing that my ballet flats would give me the iridescence to fly."
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 205 - Reviews: 15 - Published: 2-14-04
76. Greek Sculptures Aren't Real People reviews
Maybe I just don't feel like being any fun anymore.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 172 - Reviews: 14 - Published: 1-18-04
77. In My Pocket I Want to Keep You reviews
Somewhere in the back of my mind I know that you're just using me as a reason for everything you don't feel like explaining.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 168 - Reviews: 13 - Published: 1-18-04
78. Blurred Guitar reviews
"He was my perfection for a little while; Rose buds and tourniquet dances that you can only suppress for so long." Inspired by one of my favorite bands. Maybe.
Poetry: General - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 189 - Reviews: 25 - Published: 12-22-03
79. Discarded reviews
"She breathes in your scent - salty like you just spent the day in the ocean, unversed, not yet tainted with everything that fuels her." This is a story that can happen any time, but half of it is in reference to Christmas trees.
Fiction: General - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 527 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 12-20-03