So you’re my best friend and you told finally told me You might be older, but I still love you. You may regret telling me, but I won’t let you feel like that, see I am your angel and you, my devil; we are the two I am dead and cold You are sad and old But we are meant to be, Like the sand … Continue reading Poem: love from a best friend
For my entire life, I have had to deal with all the associations of having ‘potential’ and then wasting that potential. I will not complain, because I am lucky to at least have had the associations of having ‘potential’. My problem is that I cannot deal well with the associations of having potential. The best work that I have ever produced is when I have … Continue reading Wasted potential
(Un) Happy Ending: To everybody, I am nobody To myself, I am black tar I am a lost spectre in this word I am what people want me to be, I am what they see: an angel, a daughter, an academic. I am a master at hiding pain, at hiding myself But behind my grand facade, lies: an addict, a mess, a self-doubting, self-destructive human … Continue reading (Un) Happy Ending, a poem
To me, this is one of the most honest and beautiful songs ever written. But that is what makes it deceptive. To the ‘ordinary’ person, heroin could never be seen as honest or beautiful. Both the lyrics and the melody take the listener on a journey; one that some people might consider to be similar to heroin: it starts out honest, peaceful and inspiring, but … Continue reading The Velvet Underground, Heroin.
Arguably, this was Ed Sheeran’s breakthrough song. It certainly was in the UK. I love this song for numerous reasons. Primarily, it’s because his innocently brilliant voice conveys an incredibly macabre message. This juxtaposition is beautiful, because it demonstrates that innocent people can not only write about, but also comprehend, the darkest moments in life. That is simultaneously beautiful and devastating. Perhaps that is somewhat … Continue reading Ed Sheeran, The A Team.
In reading the work of De Quincy and Baudelaire, among others, I knew that my life had changed, because they were the main reason I ever tried alcohol and drugs in the first place. To me, I wanted to be a part of that culture and scene; I wanted to know what their literature was really about, and be able to understand it to the … Continue reading Are alcohol and drugs ever the answer?
Alcohol is a beautiful substance for two key reasons: it makes us feel f****** great if we drink enough, and it’s legal. This is why I am in love with it, and the effects it has on me. It seems to make my life so much more beautiful and amazing, because it manages to take my mind off trivial and, quite frankly, unimportant matters, that … Continue reading Alcohol’s allure – how different is it to drugs? Personal, social and economic perspective.
Before you read the poem, I’d just like to say that I think the way feminism has developed is a bit ridiculous, epitomized very much by the Sir Tim Hunt ‘scandal’, and this is my attempt at writing a satirical poem aimed at ‘feminists’ like the ones associated with this ridiculous scandal. Sir Tim Hunt is a victim of these ‘fauxminists’, and I’d like to … Continue reading Feminism – a poem
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