lostcauser

lostcauser
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Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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January 07
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Happiest Girl In the Whole USA
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After prematurely retiring at the age of 44, I've hunkered down on the mean streets of Memphis, TN, where I'm carving out my memoirs with an empty Bic pen on the walls of an abandoned abattoir. What ? MY FAVORITE MOVIES: Taxi Driver, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Duck Soup, Horsefeathers, A Day At the Races, The Last Temptation of Christ, Carnival of Souls, Freaks, Goodfellas, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Last House On The Left, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, all Herschel Gordon Lewis, educational shorts MY FAVORITE MUSIC: Sex Pistols, Frank Zappa, (early)Alice Cooper, Schubert, Leadbelly, (early)Rolling Stones, Nirvana, Irving Berlin, Violent Femmes, all Sun Records, The Cramps, The Dead Kennedys, Box Tops, Billy Lee Riley, Beethoven MY FAVORITE BOOKS: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Physician's Desk Reference, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV, Crime and Punishment, Notes From Underground Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Psychopathis Sexual STUFF I FIND INTERESTING: According to a new Pentagon study, 35% of Iraq veterans received mental health care during their first year home; twelve percent of the more than 222,000 returning Army soldiers and Marines in the study were diagnosed with a mental problem. As of early 2008, Human Rights Watch reports that roughly half of all prison and state inmates are mentally ill. 76% of all sexual offenses are committed by someone related to or acquainted with the victim.

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JANUARY 1, 2010 2:49PM

A Green Balloon

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When you're five,

if you let go of an emerald green balloon

and watch it getting small as it ascends into the sky;

if a storm's about to break and you can hear the clouds

in marbled veins of cream,

and if the sky tastes dark gray,

more than light;

if the darkest dark gray sky

can turn the branches black,

and orchid-color shoots

can set the redbud trees on fire--

if this happens when you're five

and you let go of a balloon,

now you hear the blood of goats run red

in a lightning crack,

you taste emeralds

and see thunder in the sky;

now you are the hilltop that you stood on

once before,

in your ascent

now you are smaller to the eye.

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