notwalking: (black as the pit from pole to pole)
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I cannot fucking believe I just took part in a zombie prison break.


Also, surprising fact: I've never read any zombie poetry. I bet it's life-changing.
notwalking: (how charged with punishments the scroll)
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Yeah, so the government's idiotic and kids hate me. Things I already knew.

Cordelia, you want to come get it?
notwalking: (and yet the menace of the years)
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He came to us
and said

you are not responsible
either for the world or for the end of the world
the burden is taken from your shoulders
you are like birds and children
play

and they play

they forget
that modern poetry
is a struggle for breath.




I'm fine without my family, without my school. Believe me, I'm more than fine. I'm better off without all of it. I never thought I'd miss anything from my world — turns out that I do. I really do.

No one ever appreciates nature until they can't touch on it anymore. Christ, I miss it. I miss rain, especially playing soccer in the rain, all of the mud and being soaked to the bone and loving every second of it. I miss thunderstorms like hell. Thunder always was my favorite. It tells of greater things to come. Now that we're getting toward the season, I miss summer. It'll never get hot enough here, and there's not even a real sun. I miss going boating on Lake Champlain and getting all tan and freckled just by being out there. I miss bugs and huge trees and, you know what? I even miss snow. Fuck me, I never thought I'd say that, but I miss snow fields like you wouldn't believe.

Forget, for a second, and oppressive government and an insulting labels for sexuality. Forget leaders who don't actually do shit. Right now, I'd just settle for being back in the real world. To climb a tree and breathe fresh air. That's all I ask.

A guy can dream.
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.


I got the job. Not a very good one, but still. I'll work my way up. Turns out they hire ex-cons after all. Who knew?

So fucking glad that I dropped out. Honest, every day I find a new reason why the high school isn't any better than the one I came from. Uniforms are bullshit. And the English department's still a sorry state. Neil, Knoxious, Todd, I feel bad for you guys. Don't fall back into routine too quickly, boys.

I think it's to the point where I can pick up my sax. Typing doesn't hurt as much, in any case. Maybe it's time to start writing music again.

Chemicals in the water is nothing. I still think it's too peaceful here. You know what they say about still waters. Something's going to happen. Something is always going to happen.
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Apparently, there's something in the water. Who knew. Personally, I don't really mind. Wasn't a huge change. But people have got a right to be pissed off. I'd tally it up to another point in the con column for Petrelli. Great job as always, Babylon. Guy can't even drink a glass of water without getting fucked over by the government. Color me impressed.
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Thanks for the extended tour of Babylon's prison, Petrelli, Raito. Really, it was just so much fun. I'm glad I didn't break out. Would've missed out on all of the excitement that a week alone with nothing but your own thoughts can bring. On the other side of that coin, it gave time for my hand to heal up nicely.

Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number—
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you—
Ye are many — they are few.


I guess I should reapply for a roommate. I wonder if they look fondly on guys with criminal records for shit they didn't actually do.

Thanks for visiting me, Andrew Wells.
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
     madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn
     looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
     connection to the starry dynamo in the macery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat
     up smoking in the supernatural darkness of
     cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities
     contemplating jazz


Look. Let's forget yesterday ever fucking happened. I'm going to, at least.

Thanks for the career advice, Petrelli. Misguided as it was, I'm acting on it. You'll thank me later.

In honor of tomorrow, I'm flipping a coin. Heads, I drop out of school once and for all. Tails, I hold out until graduation.


Ah, it landed on its side. What were the odds. I am the master of my fate.
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(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.


Not long now.


Mears, it's been a blast. I leave you to your cartoon porno.

Knoxious, let's do something. Soon.

Also. I understand the lack of rowing here, but why isn't there a Babylon soccer league?
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I'm so sick of this world. Revolutionize here, or revolutionize there. There is no losing. Guess I have to wait for the Captain, so I'm laying low for now. And I fucking hate laying low. This is stupid. Playing nice with everyone is bullshit. I don't ever apologize for shit if I don't mean it, but it's important if we're going to at least attempt to get back in some good graces.

I have a feeling this is just a warm up, though. There's something bigger on the horizon. A clean slate.


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I'm just curious. Are you ever coming back?


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What do you know, science classes are easier when you're not hungover. A novel concept, I'd say.

Boys, let's put some bullshit behind us and bring the Dead Poets spirit to the welcome home party, alright? You can thank me later for getting us in.
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Cold worlds shake from the oar.
The spirit of blackness is in us, it is in the fishes.
A snag is lifting a valedictory, pale hand;

Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls.



Alright, who wants to go first. Do your worst. I don't care.
notwalking: (all they say is trust in what is written)
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I'm going to miss this project, if only for seeing everyone squirm. Thanks for being such great entertainment, Babylon.

Hey, hell-raiser. Let's go to the lame picnic together.
notwalking: (all they say is trust in what is written)
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And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!



So. Chrome Dokuro.
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Form is emptiness, emptiness is form,
Form is not other than emptiness, emptiness is not other than form.


You were right, it is very interesting. Not my exact cup of tea, but I'm intrigued.


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I think I said something about an original sax piece to thank you? Yeah, well, I wrote it. I could come play it for you and your fiancée sometime.


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Christ, Knoxious and I could teach English at this sorry school. It's not such a bad idea, you know. I don't think I want to get a job. Just not used to that sort of shit, and I don't plan on getting used to it, either.

I've been researching cellphones. Fascinating stuff, really. And by fascinating I of course mean boring as shit. Also, expensive. It's just not worth it, you know?

Poetry isn't sating me today. I'm restless. Need something to do.
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But by such abuses
As smack of spite and the overscrupulous
Twisting of thumbscrews: one soul tied in sinews,
One white horse drowned, and all the unconquered pinnacles
Of God's city and Babylon's

(A Lesson in Vengeance, Sylvia Plath.)

Thank you again, Asuka. You're a sweetheart.

Relatively sober for the first time in a few days, and now I realize how fucking broke I am. Guess I should start exploring the job market here. No law school or banking for me, thanks.

If I could remember the ball, I would tell you how it was. Doesn't really matter, though, because everyone was there anyway. Nearly everyone. I recall a lot of dancing and a lot of different girls, and that's about it. The after events were enjoyable, I do know that.



Knoxious, feeling any better?
notwalking: (if that's what you're after)
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Last Christmas I got a funeral, split knuckles, and an expulsion.

This Christmas I got a new sax, a very intriguing phone call, good wine, and an evening of poetry.

I'd say my life is looking up.
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What the fuck kind of football tryout was that? There was a wall of fire. I shit you not, a god damn wall of hellfire. Someone in Babylon wants me to die.

That's why I stick to soccer and crew. I'll find those teams soon enough. As soon as my body recovers from the snakebites. Oh, yeah, there were snakes too. I fucking hate snakes. I fucking hate football.

God damn it. Captain? Drinks?
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I'm going to the ball. Watch out, ladies.

Captain, when you're free, there's a matter I'd like to discuss.

And for the record, when I'm a supervillain, I prefer rabbits.
notwalking: (is the rascal king behind the bars)
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What a trip.

My knuckles are split.  Worth it.  Last thing I remember is yelling "FINALLY" in Nolan's face when he said I was expelled, and then all of the sudden I'm here.  And I don't even really know where here is.  Switzerland.  I always wanted to travel, get some Swedish triplet love, but what the hell?  It's taken me four days to figure out how to even use this thing.  Still don't know what it's even for.

I can't tell you how different this is from Welton, which is beyond great, if you don't count the whole none of my friends are here deal.  And we're fictional?  And our movie is pretty popular in high schools?  News to me.

And hey, there's no sign of my dad, so fuck law school!

On the subject of Hellton and the law school that does not exist, they said I have to do my senior year over again.  What the shit.  Who else goes to the school here?  Never mind, I don't care, more importantly: who else goes to the school and wants to raise hell with me?
  

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