Hello, Robot Sister

Dad: Hey, sorry to wake you up, but your little brother wanted to talk to you

Brother: (in his best robot voice)  Hello, robot sister
(phone rustles)

Dad: (in the background) say more, mijo. Say more!!
(silence)
Well, sorry.  I thought he was going to say more or I wouldn't have called you.
(little brother is heard screaming for joy in the background)

Best Phone Call

Ever.

it's the truth

I am a control freak 
with no self control

fuck me if i'm wrong, but don't you want to kiss me?

you don't know the first thing about falling

Break my arms around my love and be forgiven by the time my lover comes

Let's take a second to focus on the unattainable

I desire the things which will destroy me in the end

august 27

Because when you don't have your best friend behind you, it's like nothing you do is right or good or worthwhile.  I don't want to sit here and second guess what you're thinking and feeling about me, when we've spent years completing each others every thought.  I don't what a few plane rides over and some guys who may or may not be here next year to demolish that.  So why am I feeling so shitty over those exact two things and you?  My best friend. My sister. It shouldn't work this way.
...
So who apologizes first?

9*12*11

You are not
     My child and this is not
          My lover and you will not
                Haunt my dreams
                     Like I've been asking you too
                         Anymore

I want to tell
     A man that I love about
          This life defining
               Time defying moment
                    But I can't because
                         I need to protect
                              The only thing
                                   You ever had
                                        That was ever yours
                                             Your memory
But i do not want
     To create a stigma
          A frightful cautionary area
               Where you are my
                    Dirty Little Secret
                         but I do need a heart strong enough
                              To be able to know
                                   That that's not
                                        Who you are
                                             Who you were
                                                  Who you never came to be

paradise

I hallucinated a man today
Walking on the brick road with a box in hand
I looked away and when I turned back there was nothing but the hot and heavy air
And then the bricks beneath my feet fell through
And I tumbled into Insanity.

And it's been beautiful ever since.

Baby brother learns about death

[my two year old brother to the cow skull on our fence]

brother: What happened to the eyes?

me: They went away when it died

brother: Did daddy shoot that it?

Dad: No, daddy didn't shoot that one.
        It died in the prairie

brother: It died? It fell down?

Dad: Yeah, it fell down.

brother: (looks at the skull and pets it)
             Is it going to be okay?

Dad: Yeah, it'll be okay.  There's nothing wrong with being dead.