Ongoing sporadic journal of the overeducated, and underemployed. The title derived from Coupland’s description of cubicle land; the corporate ghetto. Random photos and thoughts. Left the ghetto, never happier. This still a work in progress

25 February 2020

Valentine’s Day-14.02.20
You scream
Excommunicated: rarely applied censure 2) “Leave me the fuck alone

St. Valentine is the patron saint of lovers, epileptics, and beekeepers. By some: accounts, St. Valentine was a Roman priest and physician who suffered martyrdom by deception on 14.02.270
Pink Spider
Calls
Southern drawl
Darling
Honey
Yawl
making kitty drool
exile: expelled and barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons.
Salacious redemption
 Cool southern night
Redemption: refers to the deliverance of Christians from sin

my birthday


Valentine’s Day

22 February 2020

waking in Algiers-2102.20
Beur: Arabic slang for European 2) honky 3) Gringo
a Buer in North Africa
FN_FAL for company
FN_FAL; assault rifle 2) cutting edge Belgium technology in the 50’s
sun blazing! pulling on sunglasses
Khalas: Stop in Arabic
Khalas!
looking desperately fora grey ball of opium
lighting a gauloises bruns no filter
to the souk
pain is patient
pain is education
it will begin soon
staggering through souk
Buer clears a path a
sacred cow
leper
Ahmet’s bony hand
opens
a grey ball
le plus
le plus: the best
closes his reptilian hand
étranger he offers
étranger: foreigner
argent
Argent: cash 
hotel I light the ball
waking
in
Algiers

18 February 2020

Mind fields-18.02.20
tired of treading carefully in these 
mind fields
pain is 
me
angel says let’s make life
I take lives
I want
Angel
who takes what//I give
I want the Angel 
who takes me higher
I want 
Angel
who stays
when everything 
adds
up to
zero
I want 
 Angel
who calls Saints 
by street names
I want
Angel
who sees my pain
and doesn’t flinch
I want Angel
who makes
me matter
I want Angel
to take me from mind fields 

13 February 2020

toxic-12.02.20
of course
yes, grasp
what you assume
not subtle
offending
‘burb
judgments
‘Burb: shorter way of saying "suburb” 2) bourgeoise
kindness deficiency
accusing
Toxic: relating to or caused by poison. “toxic hazards”2) very bad, unpleasant, or harmful.

 toxic

11 February 2020

matter-11.02.20
I matter?
it could be some odd hallucination
Hallucination: are vivid, substantial, and are perceived to be located in external objective space. 2)to perceive what is not
everyday
same
her
Words 
like bullets
deep under my skin
Matter: physical substance in general, as distinct from mind and spirit 2) meaning to be found in words or events 3) to make a difference or consequence



I think I used to matter

07 February 2020

sometime-06.02.20
such a pain
want someone sometime
baby nobody knew
burnt breakfast
wrapped up in baby
baby  chose a cold and distant god
demon
faded back into the crowd
lost and lonely
words like bullets
tearing my skin

Fade to Black: The fadeout at the end of a film 2)removing yourself
faded to black
gutted
Gutted: take out the intestines and other internal organs of (an animal) before cooking it.2) extremely upset
RAW
Raw: uncooked food 2) red and painful open wound 
baby  tomorrow
baby yesterday
baby sometime

03 February 2020

je ne sais quoi-01.02.20
familiar
that gaze
that smile
yet
unknown
don’t want
your name
don’t want
your history
don’t want
tomorrow
just want
NOW
just want
your je ne sais quoi
je ne sais quoi: an indescribable, special distinguishing feature, or to name some unnamable quality 2)unknowable essence
i feel  when we touch
taste it when we kiss
sweet essence
want to  mainline it
Mainline: a chief railroad line.2) injecting into a vein