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

30 March 2020

Yesterday-30.03.

yesterday

day after tomorrow

We were
Going 
Swimming
Swimming: propelling through water 2) we can’t say love, so swimming
Leggy 
Dancing
Next to me
So many love
Cowgirl
is it 
all the same
raining 
Trying to keep
Cigarette lit
Cowgirl
makes me 
play this game 
yesterday 
the day after tomorrow



Numb-30.04.20
2 metres apart
52000 light years from heart
just noticed
SHE
noticing
me
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing-april-30-extend-covid-19/
lunatic shaman
Psychedelic invocations
touch
uncaring fate
alone
no
directions
Betwixt worlds
betwixt stations
adrift
Numb: deprived of sensation 2) lack of emotions 3) losing touch with reality

numb

18 March 2020

  souvenirs—2.10.18 - later
it always ends like this
I‘ll do it every time
Lunatic androids follow
Androids: robots with a human appearance

yellowing love letters   like a fresh black eye
starved for pink spider venom
Fix: to repair something that is broken) 2 a dose of your addiction/ obsession
Berserk  lightening
night air
these scars
souvenirs
 from the downs
 the chase
the score
Souvenirs: a sentimental or keepsake of place, event, or person
souvenirs



12 March 2020

sucker punch-12.03.20
I answer my mobile
vitriol
Vitriol: 1) cruel and bitter criticism 2) certain hydrated sulfates or sulfuric acid 3) her opinion of me 
straight to the gut

How the Virus Has Changed Life in the United States.nyt.com

we share
ancestors
we share
history
we share
blood
not
kindness
not
love
not angry


why, didn’t I see it
coming
Sucker Punch: suddenly without warning and often without apparent provocation 2) a bitch move by a bitch
sucker punch

09 March 2020

beat poetry for pink spiders, and How to Quarantine Yourself-06.03.20
sleep a rumour
living
betwixt stations
I tried
to describe you
needed a feeling
not words
Weyward sisters: Three “black and midnight hags” who plot against Macbeth 

Weyward sisters
screaming
stealing pieces
Psyche: all of the elements of the human mind, both conscious and unconscious 2) soul or spirit  

of me psyche
enslaving
me


pink spider
wrapping
legs puling 
me in
redemption in venom
washing 
over me
washing 
me clean
washing
me soul
pristine
washing over me Quarantine: a state, period, or place of isolation 2) removing yourself

quarantine


07 March 2020

over her-06.03.20
over: pronouncement of the termination of a relationship 2)moved beyond an event or person
over her
waking
long tousled   hair
long legs
everywhere
Over her
loose exile
poppies
heal and restore
strange games
pink spiders
feral kittens
sacred cows  lead to slaughter
Sacred cow:the Hindus' respect for the cow as a sacred animal 2)something that is often unreasonably immune from criticism or opposition.

over her
under her
flashes
Flashes: Light bright but brief, sudden, or intermittent way 2) memories of an event 3) enlighment
Over her
Attack
Insolent concubines
seeing other people
loving  each other
Liturgy :form or formulary according to which public religious worship 2) the cannon of lovers’ pleasures
sensual Liturgy