Posted on
October 04, 2010 by
Icarus 30

I’ve got alot of pills
And Not a Single Reason Not to Take Them
Suicide? No. Depression.
I can’t explain it
I just want to die
Suicide? No. Mental Illness
I’m me – I can’t not be me
Society says that’s not ok – or worse I am evil
Suicide? No. Collective Murder
I’m me – I can’t not be me
Society says that’s wrong so I keep it a secret. You outed me.
Suicide? No. Murder
Arguably the worst kind. Your ugliness makes me sick.
Tags: friendshonor
Category
Prose
Posted on
September 30, 2010 by
Icarus 30

You are not my friend
I don’t learn about my friends
On the Internet
You are a reminder
Of what I could have been
After all our paths crossed once
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Tags: friends
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Post of the Week, Prose
Posted on
August 31, 2010 by
Icarus 30

- Do Not be Paralyzed
By Your Ability to See Both Sides
Look Towards Your Anchor and Act
However, Choose your Anchor Cautiously
For it is the basis of all your journey’s decisions
Lest you be lead in the circle of hypocrisy
- Anonymous –
These aren’t my words but I thought I’d share them because they illustrate the other “law school scam” that has nothing to do with the fact that it’s an overpriced waste of time that has little chance of getting you any sort of gainful employment, much less one that might help you pay off your loans and start a life before you’re dead. I also am not going to take issue with professors whose only job is to write and consider teaching a nuasance. I am taking issue with the fact that a legal education is an enemy of “truth” as defined in the discipline of philosophy and as such eliminates the anchor spoken of in the prose that introduces this entry. Allow me to explain.
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Tags: honor
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Advice, Prose
Posted on
August 25, 2010 by
Icarus 30

I attacked my day with gusto and zeal
For you see, I’ve decided not to feel
I hardly notice as those whose exercise unjust dominion over me
Mock what I hold most dear
Go get ‘em champ! My smile is real!
For you see, I’ve decided not to feel
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Tags: honor
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Prose
Posted on
August 16, 2010 by
Icarus 30

I have the easiest debt any man has ever had
I do not pay off my debt with labor or sex or both – though still I am humiliated
My debt is a soft debt
So I lift my pen – that is my right
My debt is an easy debt because I was dealing with a thief and not a kidnapper
My humiliation was a byproduct of being robbed
A means to an end rather than an end itself
So I lift my pen – my cooler head prevails
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Prose
Posted on
August 02, 2010 by
Icarus 30

The following prose is inspired by interviews with and commentary from Mike Triforce and is posted with his infered blessing and endorsement. This in no way reflects my own thoughts and feelings. Thanks for your support during my rough patch asshole.
I make my own sandwhich
It happens – like laundry or other minutaie
But as I search for pickles the magnitude of it hits me
What wonders will the world never see
- or see hundreds of years later
- because Einstein on some random day
- had to make his own sandwhich
So yes Princess it could be the end of the world
I could be writing a song
Or rehearsing a part
Or trying to figure out exactly how much I can charge this chump client before he starts raising red flags
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Tags: Women
Category
Prose
Posted on
July 20, 2010 by
Icarus 30

Impending death is re-definition
When you decide to take your own life
You cease to be what you thought you were
And become someone who is about to die
And so it was for another poor soul
http://abovethelaw.com/2010/07/reed-smith-partner-commits-suicide-in-chicago/#more-27662
So tragic and sad.
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Tags: Law
Category
Prose
Posted on
June 22, 2010 by
Icarus 30

Please Take What is Left of Me
Though I Must Admit
It’s Not Much
I Cannot Take Care of You
In the manner you deserve
I owe so much
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Tags: familyhonorresponsibilityyouth
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Prose
Posted on
May 25, 2010 by
Icarus 30

Once I met a man whose fortune was my opposite
My every victory was his defeat
His every triumph foreshadowed my own misfortune
We were on opposite sides of a Pendulum not restrained by impartial Gravity
I called this man my friend
I tried to be joyous as a friend should
As he conquered the world in his own way
Masking my own pain
As my own world fell apart
I called this task my burden
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Prose, Uncategorized
Posted on
May 14, 2010 by
Icarus 30

My ex-girlfriend is an associate professor at a prominent university in Virginia. She has the same degree from the same school that I do. We were both young professors there once. They opted not to renew my contract. My buddy is the youngest principal in the school district. He’s the one who hooked me up with my current substitute teaching gig. He started teaching at 20 with an associate’s degree when I still had eight years of school to go.
My ex-girlfriend loves me. She’s not seeing anyone else. She still calls sometimes but she doesn’t say anything. I know its her even if my cell phone doesn’t.
My buddy loves me. I can remember when his younger siblings were born. I can remember failed science projects and staying up all night to finish super mario brothers. I attended the weddings in his family. He attended the funerals in mine.
Dr. King spent the days before he died working on behalf of striking sanitation workers. Their picket signs read simply “I am a man.” Dr. King said that a man without a job feels like he has no right to exist. I know for a fact that is true. If Dr. King had lived I wonder if he would have explained how to make that feeling go away.
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Tags: unemployment
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Prose