The taste in my mouth right now is burnt coffee, as best I can identify it. It is beyond bitter. Roasted, burned, smoky, hot bitterness.
I am standing in the doorway and I block none of it. I am thin. Frighteningly thin. More so than 1998, more than I ever imagined I could be. It is a frail thin, not a powerful healthy thin. Wasting away. I stand in the doorway looking towards a road that is atypically quiet and untraveled. It winds away from the house, from the doorway where I stand.
I am wearing Old Gringo cowboy boots under an ankle-length brown skirt that rustles in the sporadic summer breeze. A loose, ill-fitting white t-shirt skims over the shape of me. What's left of me. I stare at my toes for a minute, then pull my eyes back to the road.
The sun sets and still I stand here. I am rooted in this place and I refuse to yield. I will stare at this road until it changes, until it rises to meet the threshold I am standing on, until I can step from this doorway onto a road that takes me where I need to go instead of circling back and around again to the same ol' place I'm standing.
Same Ol' Road (Dredg)



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Magpiesmamere
03/06/2007 08:13PM
It's time to get right with Jesus.
Go Away!
03/06/2007 08:13PM
All hail Year27.
culotte
Homepage
03/06/2007 09:42PM
Wags
03/07/2007 12:04AM
sobie
03/07/2007 06:38AM
SeaTern
03/07/2007 06:41AM
twenchi
03/07/2007 08:56AM
I love you Jane
~mb~
03/07/2007 09:12AM
JAKE
03/07/2007 10:53AM
Construction is dangerous. Dont stand and watch if you are in danger. Oncoming traffic may not know you are waiting there. Stop standing. Get in your car. You drive to fast for anything less than a smooth road.
Just my advice. I like roads.
Go Away!
03/07/2007 11:07AM
JAKE
03/07/2007 10:58AM
wjc
03/07/2007 01:40PM
Jane
03/07/2007 01:45PM
Lydia
Homepage
03/07/2007 02:19PM
wjc
03/07/2007 02:41PM
"Stand up for what YOU believe in or you will fall for anything"
Lacy
03/07/2007 09:00PM
Whadda you say to that darling?
mb
03/08/2007 12:04AM
Not as much as The Duchess, but what else can be that much?