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

29 March 2019


psychomancy-27.03.19
sacrament 
BEGINS!

Sacrement: a religious ceremony or ritual regarded as imparting divine grace, such as baptism, the Eucharist  -in Catholic  and Orthodox religion penance and the anointing of the sick
(Catholic and many Orthodox Churches)
mixing sacred powders
lighting candles
seeking the divine
seeking enlightenment
seeking revelation
the only way
I know
injecting
magic
knowledge
absolution
the holy sacrament

of
psychomancy
psychomancy. a form of communication with the spirits of the dead. communication between souls or with the spirit world. 2) when the line betweens worlds fades

13 March 2019

 clarity-12.03.19

searching for clarity
purple dragon
fly’s by
don’t see the purple ones  much
I walk in grey soup
thinking of a different
place
a different
time
the fog here
obscured
Obscured: keep from being seen; conceal
ancient roads
the one waits   in the next plane
pointing at her watch
I am late
searching 
a
sister of mercy 
Sisters of Mercy are Roman Catholic women of faith who commit to serve God & serving those in need.
give us
a drink
give us
a spliff
give us
comfort
0300
I must leave
clarity
the next plane  waits
just not tonight
Clarity: the quality of being coherent and intelligible

Clarity

09 March 2019

Secret Agent Man-07.03.15-later
I kept your secrets, and then I keep them now
Secret: not known or seen or not meant to be known or seen by others

I loved you, and then I love you now
No, he doesn’t need to know
Not about where you danced, that you danced
Your girlfriend, our girlfriend
I see you
I taste your kiss
Her kiss 
Vodka and Gitaines
I hear loud angry music
screams
secret pleasures
secret habits
secret loves
And I nod and keep walking
A stranger pretending
Your secrets
Safe
Secret Agent:  a person who carries on espionage or similar work of a secret nature 2) keeps your past, in the past.3) the one you never claim

Secret Agent



08 March 2019

Yesterday -07.03.19
I was a young man
yesterday
Yesterday: the day before today 2) an existential space where our love waits. 3) neither leaving, nor gone
strong attractive
yesterday

I  had value
yesterday
this place had light
yesterday
there was joy
yesterday
dreamed
the  castle
built
in the
sand
yesterday
you
danced


Venus
dancing
on a
aphrodisiac
Aphrodisiac: a food, drink, or drug that stimulates sexual desire
yesterday
you were light 
to
 this darkness
yesterday
haunts
today

06 March 2019

Mardi Gras-05.03.19
Mardi Gras technically refers Fat Tuesday. The Tuesday before  Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent.
Angel  only artist  on mars
I poet laureate of hell
Angel’s cries
reached
deep
underground
demon
Angel 

in

loneliness
sinned
in Angel’s sin 
benediction
fled to
a
cold 
distant 
god
of
desert and sleep
demon
waking 
to  
Ash Wednesday
Lent: begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks later, before 
Easter Lent is is a season of reflection and fasting.

lent
has began
Easter  may never come


04 March 2019

just -28.02.19
remember
how we met
me too
just
seems
we’ve always
just
known
each other
just
us
just
years
miles
just
fade
just
talk
just
secrets
just
dreams
just
ghost’s we love
scars
stars
you loved me better
than 
the
bitches
I loved you better
than
the
just
you
greedy girl
just
me
you and me

27 February 2019

Home03.03.15(later)
Home is

Home: relating to the place where one lives2) a mythical  place where you belong

cluster phobic
Let's go to your Place
Home is
always screaming
go to your place
Home is
Sticking in my throat
Let's go to your place
Home is
Standing on Me tits
Let's
Go to your place
Home is
Angrily accusing
Let's
Go to your place
Home is
Quietly loathing me
Let's go to your place
Love

18 February 2019

woman child -14.02.19
blue hallucinations
Hallucinations: perception of things not present. Visions glimpses’ of truths
pink premonitions 
Premonition: a strong feeling that something is about to happen
haze underground
drinking deep
of
reluctant  girl
of  
 raging woman
2dragons mate midair
Hypnotized
by
Hypnotized: a trance like state 2)  an altered  state of consciousness

surrender in your eyes
by
you evaporating
walking
walking
in the rain
Trump crosses the Rubicon
chasing  
what we lost
Rubicon river an event in 49 BC that which ultimately led to Caesar becoming dictator 2)  death of the republic

chasing
dragons
chasing
memories
chasing
what  was
chasing
a scared child
chasing
my woman
chasing
woman child
 explosions 16.02.19
not my type
she was
like
that game
Forward Firebase Julie
flash bang
Flash Bang :stun grenade at close range can permanently  affect hearing ,sight, and scaring.
a lit cigarette
a rubber band
holds the spoon
Spoon: safety lever while  held  tightly grenade  will not explode.
pin on the table
who reaches for it?
who watches  it explode

the explosion
reach
for her
or 
watch her explode

08 February 2019

Venom-23.01.19
Beauty
stings
pink spider
crazy
sexy
cool
Gauguin paints a flower behind her ear
outrageous cyborgs dancing
A poisonous substance secreted by animals such as snakes, spiders, and scorpions 2) a hallucinogenic
pink spider venom
surging
in
my
veins
in
my
brain
in
my
conscious
Hallucinations and premonitions
visions
venom
sweet
venom


04 February 2019

That night-31.01.19
that night
Insomniac
Insomniac: person who is unable to sleep

That night
I asked hard questions of the night
That night
Smoked too many cigarettes
That night
Too much gin
That night
darker 
That night 
Shot a dime bag
Shot:  an injection
Dime Bag: a specified amount  of drugs for an exact price

That night
that night
we didn't sleep together .

29 January 2019

haunted-28.01.19 

heard
it 
in 
her 
sighs
felt
 it
in
her 
thighs
it was
love
Love: an intense feeling of deep affection 2) a popular delusional state of dysfunction3)the only strategy for survival

just love
can’t give
it
away

no life here
Haunted: 1) frequented by a ghost 2) having or showing signs of mental anguish or torment
Haunted

09 January 2019

rusty cage-09.01.18
trapped in a rusty cage
littered
love letters
yellowing
like
fresh black eyes
I pray to Sisyphus
Sisyphus: absurdist messiah 2) condemned eternally to roll a heavy rock up a hill in Hades only to have it roll down again as it reaches the top
you’re just
a story I tell myself
Confucius playing grand assassin's creed
you’re just
a game I can’t win
you’re just proof
nothing matters
You’re  just
a
a rusty cage

01 January 2019


31.12.18-year of the crow comes
fireworks
like
small weapons fire
I was
Killed among friends
Died among strangers
dreaming
Brigitte  Bardot’s bedroom
Crow carrying a letter
DANCE
Crow symbol signifies wisdom. According to legends, tribes believed that the Crow had the power to talk The sacred bird of  Ghost Dance was the crow.

we are only ghost
cruel machines
enslave
crow brings
art
love
freedom

20 December 2018

going back –different time a different place
to her husband
I am searching
words
incantation
incantation. : a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of words designed to effect magic 2) prayer
some  dark magic
to see me
not as
she did
going back
not
as
I am
she heard
a heartbeat
in the
going back
Light a Gauloise
blackout shades
Pour a glass of breakfast
she walks
unreasonably bright  outside
going back
 a priest holds the communion and chants do this in memory of me
close the blinds
scoff a dime bag
going back

06 December 2018

6.18-demon
She screams
Letters behind your name
a child holds sign-Jesus saves from hell
Clothes
Languages
Beauty created
Republican Efforts to End DemocracyThis group will not willingly cede its power. nytimes.com

Can't erase
Broken
Damaged
Horror
Demon

19 November 2018

Underground parking-07.11.18

walls fade
betwixt
planes
Planes: a level of existence, thought, or development

my beautiful shade
medicine
takes me
to  you
here
Sign reads
Sign: an object, quality, or event whose presence or occurrence indicates the probable presence or occurrence of something else

08 November 2018

Underground parking-07.11.18

walls wane
betwixt worlds
You left my  never changing shade
Love you  girl –a prayer
medicine
takes me
to you
here
Sign reads
Underground  parking

03 November 2018

infidel-02.11.18(Dia de Los Muertos)
She gets dizzy if she stands up too fast
she don’t believe
in souls
She gets hysterical blindness
she don’t believe
in love
she gets spontaneous  amnesia
she don’t believe
in me
she gets lonely 
she don’t believe 

I am  dissolving
Infidel::  from the Latin infidelis, which means "unfaithful 2) a non-believer 


infidel!

30 October 2018

1,000s -29.10.18
woman of a 1,000 sorrows
some
stolen
some
begged
some
borrowed
wear your BPD
Borderline personality disorder is a mental illness
badge honour
go to MBB
Meredith Baxter: Birney is known for her roles on the ABC drama series Family and the NBC sitcom Family Ties 2) lifetime  drama3) fictional online character  
Please take your sorrows
your 1000 grievances
the 1000 times you were wronged
the 1000 grudges
the1000 times
your  husbands frightened you
the 1000 times they wouldn’t touch you
the 1000 times
you were abused

Synagogue massacre defendant in court.

the 1000 men and women who want you
the  1000 tonnes
I carried for you

take your 1000th exit
I have seen 
this movie
a  1000 times