pulse.


"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart is just going to cave in."
-Ricky Fitts, American Beauty

31.3.10

let go of some

chain breaker by Alistair Chong

some kind of liberation
finding in words we scream
some kind new feeling
it's called freedom
stopping care
and whatever weighs us down

30.3.10

at heart we all

age by Alistair Chong

sometimes my bones hurt
am i growing older
finding the nights colder
says the old man
sometimes i don't smile anymore
at simple things i see
sometimes i forget about glee
i once was a kid

29.3.10

enjoy

open your eyes by Alistair Chong

wasted too much
on the things we think
are so much more important
but taking it simply
just step back
enjoy little things in life

28.3.10

round the corner

pedestrians by Alistair Chong

pedestrian
on the street
turns the corner
we won't know
who it is
ever

27.3.10

how do you

getting there by Alistair Chong

the only way
you can get to the finish
is to run
the only way
you can find some land
is to swim
it's all you can do

26.3.10

issues in today

facing today by Alistair Chong

we write about it
talk about it
never doing a thing
working out the solution
to a problem in evolution
but we won't lift a hand

25.3.10

reverie

never day by Alistair Chong

listen
can you hear
it's those nights
you dream of being big
sold out houses
and packed out seats

24.3.10

proverbial

fader by Alistair Chong

what happened to passion
what happened to drive
the times i could stay up the night
just working with what i had
pen in hand
or was it for something else

23.3.10

growing old

maturity by Alistair Chong

i'd climb a tree
if i were three
or if i had less dignity
said he
a well to do man
much too grown up
to try that again
oh what we've lost

22.3.10

limited

this is earth by Alistair Chong

autumn leaves
blanketing this street
underneath our feet
crumbling into the ground we meet
what a memory
we should cherish
the simplest of things

21.3.10

upward

progressions by Alistair Chong

day by day
slowly catching up
steps on a pavement

20.3.10

some kind of therapy

stupidity by Alistair Chong

ten days at a time
seems the strangest
we barely hold a line
let alone this long

19.3.10

i guess they

culture by Alistair Chong

a lot of the time
my mind will wander
finding the same old words
shows how i never read
sometimes i'm just damn illiterate
uncultured and obnoxious
you'd hate me

18.3.10

lacking

we're alive by Alistair Chong

blurry eyes
burning bright
some lights just won't come together
out of focus
and breaking apart
i forget what it's like
to sleep