Tag Archives: past

Isolation, Artifacts

Posted on April 6, 2020 by jejunejesuit

Sometimes it takes the whole world stopping to rediscover what you love. When things come to a grinding halt maybe you first glut yourself on the vices you’d used to distract yourself from misery. Maybe the very things you’d framed … Continue reading →

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Do I Dare Dream Again?

Posted on November 18, 2018 by jejunejesuit

Do I dare start to dream again? Is it time to put all these woes and all these trivialities behind me? Do I once again sweep away all of the presumed things of importance to open up that space, crepuscular … Continue reading →

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Delirium

Posted on December 11, 2015 by jejunejesuit

Life is absurd. The connections within are sometimes so deep and so abundant that they start to become meaningless. The patently absurd becomes profound—watching The Expendables in a taqueria at 10PM. A white boy laughing at an explosion on a screen, surrounded by people … Continue reading →

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Recognition, Recollection

Posted on November 6, 2014 by jejunejesuit

I work downtown in a relatively small area. I see hundreds of faces on any given day. I live in the same town I went to college in, and there are old faces everywhere: anyone I recognize could be someone … Continue reading →

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Dioramas

Posted on August 29, 2014 by jejunejesuit

I’ve wanted to preserve the past in tiny little dioramas, the curator of some mental museum, impeccably aligned artifacts depicting experiences pristine, preserved out of time, so when I’d access them (later, always later) I could say yes, people have loved … Continue reading →

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Years

Posted on March 7, 2014 by jejunejesuit

I am often afraid that the years will leave me. If I stop pursuing, if I take a break, someone will catch up to me, proving me fraud, and all the capacity that’s come to me over the years will … Continue reading →

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