The Cerebral Catalyst

Motivation and expectation shine
down like a hot white
interrogation light.
The brain is a violent thing:
backed into a corner,
trying to fight its way out.

It was Solzhenitsyn
that said:
"How can you expect a man who's warm
to understand a man who's cold?"

And it was Neil Young that said,
"Every day I ask myself
what the hell I'm talking about."

The world lives now
with the blinds pulled up
so that everyone has a
plain clear view
of the others' windows.

Salinger and I
just want to be recluses
so could you people
please leave us alone?

There is some place
where solace stands
but the problem is
that it's so
good at hiding.

Please let me die
of something romantic
(like consumption)
and not this suffocating
existentialism.

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Kristin Blank is a Renaissance woman. She is the vocalist for Sing the Evens, Play the Odds. She writes the underground comic Hate Your Friends. In her spare time, she likes to curb stomp triflin' fools.

posted 03.20.06.

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