| 
         
          | Wednesday, September 28, 2005 
 Laur @ 10:04 AM
 listening to chatter in Science Fiction
 
 God, don't let the caffiene wear off,
 she thinks (prays, although she is
 agnostic);
 I have a picnic basket full of business
 to attend to
 and if one sleepy mosquito bites me
 I don't know how
 anything
 will get done.
   
 Laur @ 10:02 AM
 listening to chatter in Science Fiction
 
 Sometimes you drink too much (and sometimes
 it's water, sometimes
 it's vodka), but
 what is constant is the craving
 to indulge yourself a little
 too much. When she glances
 at you (she always does at some point--
 it's inevitable),
 you lose your thoughts
 and proceed to stare. This is not
 a problem per se,
 but obvious has never been attractive
 and once you started to be
 infatuated,
 your inherent nature tossed you
 headfirst
 into (what
 might be) love.
   
 Laur @ 9:59 AM
 listening to chatter in Science Fiction
 
 It's difficult to stay awake as
 you make your way from place to place, never quite
 sure just where
 your destination really is; it's somewhere
 down these dull hallways, you know,
 and as your journey through
 a haze of coffee and
 coffee-related epiphanies, you wonder
 about fate and whether or not it
 is what brought
 you to this empty morning (identical to
 the rest of them)...
 time passes slowly; you eat a poptart
 and count the seconds
 until you feel alive again--
 cherry is the flavor.
   
 Laur @ 9:57 AM
 listening to chatter in Science Fiction
 
 Her poetry revolves around love
 and sometimes rain,
 but you never were a fan of words in
 the first place. What captured
 your attention in the beginning
 was the utter
 artistry
 of the glances she
 threw in your direction;
 you caught them with eager blue eyes
 that she would later call glacial
 as your passion faded.
 Hers never wavered, and
 that
 was the problem; you never understood
 how anyone could ever feel
 so damn
 alive.
   
 Laur @ 9:54 AM
 listening to chatter in Science Fiction
 
 Lightly the poet sips her coffee,
 glancing out the window. She
 is in search of two things-- a rainstorm
 and her lover--
 that disappeared in July.
 When she burns her tongue
 she looks away
 because the unpleasant sensation
 is too much when coupled
 with her unpleasant thoughts; she wonders
 when
 did I become so wistful?
   |  |  |