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          | Saturday, August 30, 2003 
 Laur @ 12:29 PM
 listening to The Alkaline Trio
 
 I remember walking, because
 That's what we used to do.
 Back when you loved me and I,
 I loved you.
 
 I'm sorry, but I'd like to walk with someone new.
 
 We've already kissed.
 Yet it's a pity,
 Half the time,
 He forgets I exist
 (like a lost little girl
 in New York City)...
 He's not really mine.
 
 You look keen to be alone,
 Sitting there,
 Oh so proud,
 Your desk of a throne.
 I don't care.
 I'm not allowed.
 
 I wish you'd stop grinning.
 My persistence is thinning.
 You think that you're winning.
 So I guess I lose.
 I guess I lose.
 
   
 Laur @ 12:11 PM
 listening to The Alkaline Trio
 
 My reflection laughed at me this morning
 When I woke up from my dream about you
 And started crying without warning.
 I guess there was nothing else to do.
 
 Would you please tell me this:
 Can I not want you back?
 Can I let myself miss
 What we had that I lack?
 My tears are probable.
 You know they're unstoppable.
 
 My reflection laughed at me last night
 When I couldn't get you off my mind.
 There is so much poetry to write,
 But too many words for me to find.
 
 Would you please tell me this:
 Can I not want you back?
 Can I let myself miss
 What we had that I lack?
 My tears are probable.
 You know they're unstoppable.
 
 My reflection is laughing at me right now.
 I miss you and I don't know why, or how.
 
  Friday, August 29, 2003 
 Laur @ 9:06 PM
 listening to A Sorta Fairytale by Tori Amos
 
 I'm wearing these jeans like the studious type,
 Too busy with the Cold War to notice
 It's hot
 And change.
 
 Or maybe it's you.
 
 You're out and about like the wonderful type,
 Enjoying the absence from your house,
 Your room,
 And bed.
 
 Or maybe it's me.
 
 It's lonely here in the night time,
 When I have only a star to wish upon.
 You're far from me, further from mine-
 I don't hesitate to say that you're gone.
 
 
 
  Tuesday, August 26, 2003 
 Laur @ 9:00 PM
 listening to Walking on a Wire by The Get Up Kids
 
 The fact is,
 I know you all so much better
 than I know
 myself.
 
 I feel a million things at once, and
 the poem to describe it would be
 another 'Bohemian Rhapsody'...
 
 So complex with
 abrubt changes;
 misplaced metaphors and
 senseless similes.
 
 Yet you,
 you
 break it down and
 you
 understand-
 you ace the TAAS of
 Comprehending
 Lauren's
 Mind.
 
 I belong wherever there is
 a pen in my hand, but
 
 I would be
 homeless if
 I
 did not have
 you
 to write
 about.
 
 
 
  Monday, August 25, 2003 
 Laur @ 8:14 PM
 listening to A Better Control by Kenna
 
 I'm handing this over,
 my four leaf clover,
 in hopes you will remember
 that I do exist.
 
 I've been standing out here,
 not keen to interfere,
 and getting the feeling
 that I am not missed.
 
 Meanwhile you're great,
 and it's me that I hate,
 for not being the one
 you want to kiss.
 
 a.n.: sorry i know this one sucks, but jeff liked the beginning so i finished it for him
 
 
 
  Saturday, August 23, 2003 
 Laur @ 4:12 PM
 listening to Lucky by Radiohead
 
 I lost myself,
 in an instant,
 I lost myself,
 to you.
 
 In a kind of
 weighing
 of the priorities,
 I lost myself,
 to you.
 
 I lost myself,
 in an instant,
 I lost myself,
 to you.
  Thursday, August 21, 2003 
 Laur @ 9:02 PM
 listening to The Spice Girls
 
 Like Jack Nicholson in Chinatown,
 I've got it figured out. I under-
 stand. I'm not scared.
 
 I'm just dancing through the days.
  Tuesday, August 19, 2003 
 Laur @ 11:09 PM
 listening to The Center of the World by Bright Eyes
 
 I can act just as old as you really are,
 if not older.
 Though I laugh at myself
 when I see the production,
 I convinced
 you
 and her
 and him
 of the maturity I
 pretended to posses-
 meaningful conversations and
 sounding nostalgic when saying
 "hurray."
  Monday, August 18, 2003 
 Laur @ 7:42 PM
 listening to The Juliana Theory
 
 Drench me in envy, the
 green paint that should be
 the color of
 my tears.
   
 Laur @ 7:40 PM
 listening to The Juliana Theory
 
 Dear Gary,
 
 I'm writing you this, explaining,
 my times of troubles, the
 ones that you said would come.
 
 Do you want to hear
 another story of
 rejection and what it feels like to
 not belong? I always used the
 perfect words, describing to you
 with the
 persistence of my tears.
 
 I wear my hair down, it's grown
 so long. I lit a candle
 the other day, to ignite my
 energy.
 
 I burned down crying, instead.
 
 
 
 
  Thursday, August 14, 2003 
 Laur @ 12:35 AM
 listening to Lovely Rita by The Beatles
 
 ink splattered,
 covering my desk.
 "after all,
 you're the poet."
 but my paper is thin,
 i can't begin,
 and you keep saying both every thing and
 the last thing
 i want to hear.
 perfect timing?
 here's my hand, take my
 heart, and
 never mind what happened
 then, because now
 is looking promising with that smile
 of yours, and this
 waiting
 has me utterly
 breathless.
 
  Wednesday, August 13, 2003 
 Laur @ 8:58 PM
 listening to Wicked Little Town by Tommy Gnosis
 
 she
 [is] meaningful;
 tell me,
 was she as
 softspoken
 the day she told you
 "yes"?
 oh, ask me the
 same question that you
 asked her,
 give me the
 chance, and
 i will answer in every
 synonym,
 as loud as i dare.
  Tuesday, August 12, 2003 
 Laur @ 12:40 AM
 listening to Ironic by Alanis Morissette
 
 she would have lived naked
 in the rain, speak-
 ing poetry with every
 breath. her heart was
 yours, and what have you
 done? she cannot
 feel the rain through
 this window, and her
 poetry is lost in the
 layers of clothing you
 throw upon her.
 you
 had
 no
 right.
  Saturday, August 09, 2003 
 Laur @ 11:54 PM
 listening to Head Over Heels by Tears for Fears
 
 i'm hugging this pencil with my hand as
 if that would make the words
 come out better and
 come out right,
 the way i want them to;
 naturally; a river of
 words
 straight out of the thesaurus
 of my mind.
   
 Laur @ 5:45 PM
 listening to Hellbent by Kenna
 
 i
 can't
 find
 myself
 inside this mirror. they stole me and now
 they
 control
 me.
 rescue me.
 remind me who it was you saw
 in
 me
 before.
 i need your smile to
 save me;
 take me
 by the hand and lead me back through the glass where i can
 lay
 with you
 forever.
 
 
   
 Laur @ 1:22 AM
 listening to Creep by Radiohead
 
 I CAN'T CONTROL THIS
 this
 what is this?
 she's crying through her laughter.
 you wonder
 is this girl for real?
 you can't have her.
 you don't want her.
 because you know
 everything's at stake.
 it's too much
 too much
 for you to handle.
 but you know
 she will forgive you
  Wednesday, August 06, 2003 
 Laur @ 3:18 PM
 B.N.: I changed the template and the layout. Bonus points if you can guess which Radiohead song it's based on.
 
 listening to Let Down by Radiohead
 
 the clock says 3:33,
 and i wonder if you're thinking of me.
 
 i spent so much time sleeping today,
 for what reason should i wake up?
 the day went past, it slipped away,
 like the continuous flow of my blood.
 
 somebody should tell me why,
 and give me an explanation,
 of how my life is not a lie,
 that i have a destination.
 
 the clock says 3:33
 and i wonder if you're thinking of me
 
 it doesn't rain enough here.
 so many people like their sunshine,
 and their skies to be clear...
 but then what washes the grime?
 
 i think a lot, too much, you say.
 is there anything else to do?
 if the rain would wash the sun away,
 i could play outside with you.
 
 the clock says 3:33,
 and i wonder if you're thinking of me
 
 the clock says 3:33,
 and i know what my wish will be;
 easy enough, though out of my reach,
 i hope you're thinking of me.
 
 
   
 Laur @ 2:15 AM
 listening to Paranoid Andriod by Radiohead
 
 Ten O' Clock Prophecy
 We spend so much time
 Doing those kinds of pointless things,
 The things that we do;
 We fall behind.
 
 Now I am not philosophical
 And I am not the wise old man
 But one thing I can tell you all:
 Life doesn't come in a can.
 
 You spend all night waiting for the phone to ring
 Well that phone call won't mean anything
 When our closest star is shining bright
 And the morning says it'll be alright.
 You really didn't have to stay up all night.
 
 She heard a song and it changed her life.
 He bought a ring and got a wife.
 It could kill them in the long run but
 You've got to take it all in strife.
   
 Laur @ 1:49 AM
 listening to Lewis [Mistreated] by Radiohead
 
 several seasons passed
 in the time we were connected
 but it didn't last
 joined at the hip but notions neglected
 
 i know it's hard but think of this
 you felt me leave the last time we kissed
 
 you're wrong
 i'm gone
 try not to complicate
 you're wrong
 i'm gone
 it's far too late
 
 once we thought we had forever
 but my heart changed it's mind
 i'm sorry it's hurts when we're not together
 but i will not try "one more time"
 
 i know it's hard but think of this
 you felt me leave the last time we kissed
 
 you're wrong
 i'm gone
 try not to complicate
 you're wrong
 i'm gone
 it's far too late
 
 i've always worn my heart on my sleeve
 so please accept that i must leave
 
 you're wrong
 i'm gone
 try not to complicate
 you're wrong
 i'm gone
 it's far too late
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