Heard the one about the LJer who is accused of killing her mother?

Relevant links:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/smchyrocky/
http://ap.alaskajournal.com/stories/state/ak/20041123/2605949.shtml

Let’s move beyond the tragedy itself for a second.

Somehow, seeing all those comments on her LJ from people spewing vitriol…hmm.

What do they gain by that?

I swear, there are days when I dream of world annihilation by fire, by ice, by God’s hand. I know these people see pain incarnate here, and I want to let them go.

I don’t want to be here anymore, in that space of anger. I don’t want to change the world. Let’s let it rot and die.

I’ll know better about all this tomorrow, but this is where I am tonight.

Under No Moon

Tonight I like hearing you
better even than seeing you.
Having heard you speak,
I won’t even bother
to open my eyes.

When you spoke, I dropped my knife to the ground.
It stuck blade end down, hilt deep.
A stream bubbled up from around it.
I can’t see that either but it sounds like you,
a cool bend in the wind.

Sinking this nude and this deep into midnight
while the poplars shake in spite of
greedy silence, I think I could take root and grow,
watered and well fed, lying in some bed, any bed,
listening to you say something, anything, under no moon.

…thanks, by the way, to dead_kitty for thoughts and critique…