Jake Shaw's Blog, page 70
June 1, 2017
Infinite Ammo – Journal 6/1/17
I just had a long conversation with my sister about the perils and difficulties of blogging. How in the hell can I expect to relate to you who is reading this?
We’re all people floating through a void of space, possibly along, probably depressed by the infinitesimally small span of existence each of our lives lays out, and angsty as hell. So where do we go from here? We communicate.
One of the most fundamental things about human relationships is that we have such extensive forms of communicat...
Zailent Spring OS
It’s spring
We’re in the recursion quarter
In this season
Of sun and green
To the future I lean
With my digital digits
Clacking away on my
Keyboard once again
With these light gales
Of finger-falls
Do I find the grace in
Gracility
May on the horizon
And these zailent
Revolutions are playing
Out over and over again
They bring with them the hope
As I fabricate and
Spin my webs
And trap the spring as prey
The lightest breeze
Across my arms and face
As I sit and contemplate
Of what to make
Of wh...
May 31, 2017
Mossman Cense
Burnt graphite from
Wooden pencils
And charred ink
From cheap pens
Clashes with the dark halls
Of college buildings
Flashlight lit to
Permeate paranoia
Waterlogged woods in rain
Into Green River
To runoff and drain
Through blacktop lanes
A lurking wraith
With no legs
Silent hovering
Stalking the place
But a face
Frozen in horror
And hooded reach
To touch with dank hands
Of mossy fingers
Slowly roaming
These somber halls
Plying as it goes
The spirit of Green River
A marshy haunting in
Grim lab...
Ego Hell – Journal 5/31/17
J-Day has come and gone. Critiques are in and they are disappointingly not tearing me apart? Am I actually good at this? Everyone looking and smiling and saying most everything you do is okay is a sort of ego hell for someone like me. I relish in the verbal combat of defending my writing, and I think I might need a much harder critic to destroy me as a human being based off of poems. Or I’m a glutton for punishment.
Along those lines, an upcoming poem ‘Jungles of Hell’ features the set “Start...
May 30, 2017
From the Chill Corner
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Shot with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/5.6; 1/1000; ISO-400; 55mm
Filed under: Images
Lunarium
An old woman tends the garden
Outside the duplex lunarium
A small yard fenced in
With soil and pebbles
A large telescope sticks
Out the top of an attic
Converted into an
Observation tower
Inside is one bed
Where the whole family sleeps
A knock at the door
And the house awakens
You were stirring when I woke you
And now you’re stretching
Bright eyed with a sweet face
And couldn’t be more alive
Claustrophobic breakfast now
Sunbeams shine through windows
I’d love to stick around
If there’s room f...
May 29, 2017
Redondo Sunset
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Shot with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/5.6; 1/500; ISO-400; 18mm
Filed under: Images
Stims, Doom, and Rap – Journal 5/29/17
Over the past six months, I have had a laptop on in my room. I’m sure that by itself isn’t a cause for alarm, so I shall continue to detail said laptop. It’s an old one. Haven’t opened it since 2014. Let me tell you a little story.
Once upon a time, I had a friend who was super into Greek mythology and shit like that. Said friend isn’t in the best of times. Said friend, let’s call him Mars just to piss him off, was attending online school when I encouraged him to make an outlet like I have he...
