The Group W Bench

DETONATION (The last Group W Bench Post)

2008-07-13T12:01:00.002-05:00

After a sporadically-filled 7 years and change, I’m admitting my failure at this.
Pretty impressive, to fail at something you had no clear purpose in starting. But that’s how spectacular I am.
In short, the minimal effort that I have been making still feels like too much work.
There’s just been too much change. I don’t get the energy from posting which I got when I started this.
So, it’s time to knock everything down, sow the fields with salt, and move on.

Since most of the audience for this has been people whom I personally know, I’ll try to emit regular e-mails from my hotmail account. On the slim chance that you’ve been a long-time reader of this witlessness, and you never wrote to me before, and you actually want to read some of the future witlessness, please send me a note from your private e-mail address to uim70@hotmail.com . I feel certain that I can handle the Lilliputian flood of e-mails that will result.

I’ll keep the “band names” and “links” and “adult film actress names” sites up a while longer.

I won’t even permanently rule out trying a web log again, sometime in the future. Maybe it could happen around late September 2010. Who knows?

Until you hear from me, may peace and love and happiness fill your life to overflowing.

“… and sweet’s the air with curly smoke / From all my burning bridges.”
-Dorothy Parker

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Fury (B)

2003-08-02T21:45:00.001-05:00

This is the night I would pay anything to undo.

I won't rehash details (pounding a beer while trying to keep my temper, listening to her self-absorbed bullshit because I'm that much of a patsy, walking home four blocks blinded by tears and choking on rage).

I'm just noting this with two appropriate lyrics.

"One punch and you knocked me down.
Tore my defenses apart.
One round took me out of the game.
You did me some permanent harm."
- Rolling Stones, "One Hit to the Body," Dirty Work

"She's a cold hard bitch.
Just a kiss on the lips,
And I was on my knees,
Waiting, baby.
Cold hard bitch.
She was shaking her hips.
And that was all that I needed.
Waiting, baby."
- Jet, "Cold Hard Bitch," Get Born

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ABSAROKE (B) (Bad Poetry)

1994-05-01T20:30:00.001-05:00

I am the only outcast crow,
Born to serve the Darkest Lady,
But dreaming of the Light.
Corpses' eyes and burning cities
Kept my tribe alive for years,
Soaring on the night.
Flocking to Her as She dances
A blood-step on the smoke-choked air,
Lusting in the fight.
Writhing beats of wings and heart black
Ravening in tears of pain,
Slaked on mortal might.
But in the night of gorging plunder
I have seen the fire flicker
Far from camps of blight.
Flame to cloak Her, Flame to guide Her,
Flame to form Her tools of Healing,
Count'ring Death's despite.
I circle, watching, as I've gyred
A thousand times round fields of gore,
As though I were to strike.
Her fires life my wings and heartache,
Her brilliance blanches my savage hunger.
I hold a purer flight.
Burn I must in apostate glory,
Severed from my carrion family,
Burning, burning bright.