Showing posts with label allergies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label allergies. Show all posts

1.07.2010

I've...missed you, I mean, I don't even know who you are.

I wrote a blog a while ago about knowing that distinct feeling right before a break up.  I now intend to write about the feeling about writing about the feeling right before a break up, or right after, and during.

It's really difficult, frankly. It's like when you aren't wearing glasses when you need them a whole lot, and you have been drinking whiskey all night on an empty stomach, so everything is just this woozy blur and words come really slowly.  Your wpm is unusually slow and you stumble of the spelling of words like "of."  Or is it "ov"? I don't really know.

And while you're on an illiterate tilt-a-whirl the only thing that you can seem to hear or make out of your surroundings, are reruns of unbelievably bad and corny television shows.  You know the one's with freeze-frames at the end, and where the characters started out as 9th graders and now they are like, married, and have grandkids?

And I'm neither hungry, nor full, yet food sounds great.  And I absolutely refuse to look nice.

What's funnier is that, like the blog I made allusion to, there was no breakup, no nothing.  All imaginary.

'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
Nor customary suits of solemn black,
Nor windy suspiration of forced breath…

Oh Hamlet.  Oh yeah, one more thing. I sigh a lot more and make indescribable, rather, un-spellable, huffing noises. 

6.25.2009

"I have an exoskeleton and big red claws"





If I am a lobster, then you are allergic to shellfish.  And I want you to cook me anyways, but your reaction will come about through dermal or systemic contact.  Even if you breathe too close.   Just wanted to be a pet.  Some facts about my arthropod friends:

we make 31.8 billion dollars in trade annually
we have 10 legs and front claws
we only are cannibalistic in captivity
it is not unusual for us to live 100 years
though many believe that we have no pain receptors, we do in fact experience pain and suffering
the most common way of killing us is by boiling us alive, or cutting us in half, lengthwise
chapter 10 of alice in wonderland is called "the lobster quadrille" 
when you band our claws shut, they atrophy
we have blue blood