Jake Shaw's Blog, page 75
May 4, 2017
Ultraviolent
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Shot with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/5.6; 1/50; ISO-400; 18mm
Effect achieved by using a welding mask visor as a filter up against the lens, pointing at the sun. Tinted indigo.
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A Lot of Staples – Journal 5/4/17
Why, I’m published again! I did it! I went to an event where I did a slam of Splatter Masquerade and made a funny jab about not being able to read Wrong Number! Ohmygod this fills me with a fire unlike anything else! So many writers in one room for the release reception of the Pierce College Student Literary and Arts Magazine, so many people I know! My professor, past professors, past employers, current friends and all kinds of sort! It was such a rush doing the photography and then walking o...
Correction
You caught me
Outside of class
(Modern Conflicts)
Just now
Where I could tell you
I had written that
Poem from yesterday
I promised
“I’ve got to write a
poem about this now.”
I had said.
And you jabbed
About whether or not
It was free verse
You watched as I
Formatted and
Printed it for you
There was a discrepancy
I didn’t know I had
Spelled
Your name wrong
An “S”, not a “Z”
I thought I knew
What I was doing
But you
Knew
Better
And became
Even
Less
Grey
I was only
Slightly late
To Internationa...
May 3, 2017
Stutz Squadron
You were always trying
To impress people
Or subtly calling for
Attention
In late senior year you shaved
Your head shameless
And got weirder than you
Had been before
Your on again/off again
Boyfriend deserted you
In an attempt to suck out the
Venom from between you two
You called yourself bisexual
To rebel against your parents
I assume, since I never saw you
With another girl
You’ve been desperate before
And tried to come onto me
But it didn’t happen and you
Moved on, though we were friends
I’...
May 2, 2017
Elisabeth Ungray
It was passing period
And I was walking behind you
Funny how people seem so grey
Until they turn to you and say
“Hi”
How strange it seemed to be
Approached as I was coughing
Like you took my ailment
As a salutation
But I didn’t mind much
When you turned to speak
And I noticed how familiar
You looked
I felt like I’d seen you before
But I had no idea
Why I really was so comfortable
Responding to your greeting
Or where in the background
I’d seen you before
I coughed
And you said “Hi”
That’s when...
May 1, 2017
Whatever – Journal 5/1/17
You guys are the god damn best. From the start of 2017 to today, I have officially gotten more visitors than I did all of 2016. Thank you all so much for being here.
Today I’m listening to Walking In A Dream by Empire of the Sun, in addition to some selections by Dance With the Dead. And well, it’s been a few days that I’ve been away! In that time, all manner of very very neat things have happened.
Firstly, I’m being published tomorrow. Pierce College’s SLAM for 2017 is coming out, and it’s g...
SLAM Meeting 2/27/17
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Uncaged
The walls are
In your heart
So set them free
OLY 308
Curtains coming down
To cover the
Windows
Lights bright
Inside
A nice view
Peeks in
From outside
Am I a chancer
Or just so zen
Anywhen
I can be
Unchanged
Uncaged
This room is the
Bane
Of unimaginates
Filed under: February Era (III)
April 28, 2017
So Cal Lunar
I earnestly
Miss the moon
As it was more
Commonly called
Luna in
So Cal skies
How it looked new
As a dialated pupil
And when it was full
So jeweled and bold
Waxing demelting
Waning and fading
But now I can’t
See it anymore
In cloudy, rainy
Washington
Skies still have
A great allure
Yet the crystal eye
No longer burns
Filed under: February Era (III)
