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This isn't my first blog. At this point, I figure that one got eaten by some cyberspace pirates.

For future reference, I Touched The Socket will be an outlet for my artwork, writing, catchphrases, the occasional invention and in all likelihood, brief snippets of my actual life.

Samples.
"He's just so 'earlier than thou-' he's heard of every band, book & movie long before anyone else."

July 28, 2008
I arrived
traveled 700 miles before
you'd opened your crusted eyes
with a head cold
you can taste the ash
the dead skin in the air
who's DNA is that
sinking in your lungs today?

I arrived
crawling into bed
with a water bottle
& glazed eyes
what haunted galaxy
did we crash land in
& return ever-so-safely

I resign
to the fog in my guts
the storm in my head
forgive & forget
the hopeless urges
requests, plans and visions
while we fill our lungs
with your dead

I just started re-reading my little notebook of poems from last year- editing it like I used to edit my middle school diaries. Despite how insane/in love I was last February through, well, August, there're some poems in there that depict those forgotten feelings more sharply and honestly than I'd remembered.
April 17, 2007 (con)sequence
even as we lie here
skin to skin inside out
I can feel the distance
the lack of intimacy
my back arches I think I
will cry in retrospect one
cold morning fetal with no
one to be my blanket

I brush my teeth & still
taste your sour skin
scouring the sweat off
under running water

Well, the sun is setting so I'm going to go for a bike ride.
'Til next time.

-Katari