Mi reflejo en el espejo


Mi reflejo en el espejo
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   Sometimes It's hard to break out the frame of mind I'm in, so what if I'm narrow minded at times? I cant help but see things my own way and the rest of the world is wrong. I'm not part of that world which I despise, I'm part of my own. If my world is this small I don't mind at all, at least it's my own.

   This trip did not clear my head at all, as far as I know as soon as I got there I wanted to come back and do something else, It's strange how one wishes to go away by themselves or with just one specific person. That person was not in this trip by the way.

   I was trapped in this moving cage with wheels, with three other people that do not understand my situation, people so close to me yet so far, that there are times I cant recognize who they are. "Friends" they are called and I consider them so, for at one time some of them saved my life but, what is the price I have to pay for me to be by myself when I have to be surrounded by these people? I need my time, I need my space, I need my pen and my paper to gather my thoughts in black and white. So that is why I enjoy my small piece of loneliness, I stray myself, lose myself just so I can get that time and space I need to breath, to reconcile my spite against life; yes I loathe it.

   I stay in my little shell, My small box of thought and lunatic's ideas, I am exactly that, a caged lunatic.

Posted at at 5:27 PM on July 05, 2005 by Posted by Jose | 1 comments | Filed under:

My mind flies all in It's own... I am so very sorry.


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···It's one of the worst feelings I have, being able to invent theater like plays in my head where the villain is always someone in the most perfect position to hurt me. I read thru my journals, I breeze thru those days that have long and not so long passed and realize that there have been times where I was lied to, or maybe they just bent the truth a bit. I do not blame anybody, I'm not one to blame anyone for there is always a way for the blame to fall on me instead.

···It was late last night, in between my insomnia and me finishing my last journal that it hit me, I was there for a lot longer than I thought and whatever was said was only for protection of something or because of simple self uneasiness. If she only knew...

···I may be overreacting as I do most of the time, It's just been so long, six months now and It will probably be six more before I am able to at least touch again, much less get what I so desperately need. It's simple for me to remain faithful but It's not easy for me to get these thoughts out of my head, all this desire, all this need that leaves so damned and breathless. I need contact, I desire it but apparently I have not had the best of luck with the days I've been with her... Three weeks.

···This wont destroy anything, I've always told her that she has the last word in these kinds of things, I would just like her to realize how long it has been and for her to consider how hard it's been for me. I can do anything for her and this is still far from what will bring me to my knees. Still, I cant help but sigh.

···Time will pass and another six months will, a whole year, from winter to winter, Chicago to Mexico, but until then I cannot write anymore of that.

Posted at at 2:34 PM on June 28, 2005 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

I'm slowly getting used to fact of not having her for 12 hours of each day; slowly I'm coming into terms with the fact that she needs me less than I need her, that she has some other things in her life that have some importance. What's strange is that I'm slowly becoming ok with this, all my paranoia are slowly dying down, the thoughts that my head develops by itself are becoming more and more like cartoons than real life; a fiction of life, nothing more than a lie, an exaggeration.

There are days where she comes only to leave the scent of her perfume behind, she's gone as soon as she's here and even though I ask her not to go and to stay she always leaves. I'm not bitter but how I wish she'd stay.

But sometimes, there are days where she comes by and stays long, never for the whole night and never ever long enough, but she stays, she leaves not only her perfume but her aura, her echo, the footprints on the floor, the room is still lit up for hours after she is gone.

She's a girl with many things in her head, music, responsibilities, beauty and assignments, this that are her own to live and develop. I'm still there but she's used to me, she's used to the distance and the time apart. Unfortunately I am not, the thing being that these trips I make are solely and exclusively to see her and none else, whoever crosses my path while I'm here is mere coincidence, I'm here for no one else and her still having these responsibilities are literally choking my intentions and purposes for this trip.

I'm still so very much in bliss though, I would never give this up for anything, even with the sudden lack of passionate kisses and a strange sense of celibacy that have cut our list of activities by two, I would still not give this up for anything.

END OF THE WORLD

You are nothing short of the end or the world,
your hair is fire & comb it so as to leave all you walk
upon burnt.

You are nothing short of the end of the world,
body so light and nimble feet, a face truly called
divine.

You are nothing short of the end of the world,
the rage of the suns coupled with the tenderness of
your touch.

You are the end of the world, in what little I have
walked there's nothing more for me.
You are the end of the world, for I need not search
much more if I've already found you.

You are the end of a road, walking slowly
with steps so small it makes it hard to see how far
I've gone.

You are the end of a long road, resting aside
under the sun and following your breath all the way
to your kiss.

You are the end of my road, in what few people
I've seen in you is where I find the most.
You are the end of my road for I need not to walk
any further to find someone quite as you.

You are the end of a world, I've only just left
you behind; you are the start of a fresh new breath
of life.

You are the end of a road I almost failed to
walk; you are a brand new glimpse of a world that
brings me hope.

You are the end of all I've left behind in
order to survive, you are everything I need to start
a better life.

Posted at at 8:48 PM on June 13, 2005 by Posted by Jose | 1 comments | Filed under:

COMMON

I still feel overthrown by all this words I fail to learn. What little I can understand are only whisperings of a common man.

I still feel the storm coming in, I don't remember when I felt as small as I feel today, these are only the complaints of a common man.

I've been left alone; I've been kept in the dark from all the things I need to be a man.
I've never felt so small and I've never felt so "in between" worlds.

If you believe I'm behind every shadow and around the thoughts in your mind, these are only the wishes of a common man.

I've been forgotten again; I've been a well kept secret for as long as I have known.
I've never realized that I am as common as the next man.

Marzo '05

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She is so sorely missed...

Posted at at 11:31 PM on May 08, 2005 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

SO FREAKING AFRAID...

Feeling as if you've been taken for granted is probably one of the worst feelings one can experience, being considered like something (one) that will always be there without a second thought, without a shred of doubt... "He will always be there, he's just like that... Routinely dependable." God, fucking kill me now.

It's going on for some time now, preferences overpowering me, a sudden change in the hierarchy of how she sees things, suddenly I feel I've been overshadowed and displaced by something else. And do hope it is "something." I absolutely detest this new hierarchy, her new way of giving importance to things that are over me, it's not that I feel more important than her passions but it's the way she's treating our current situation that throws me to the side; It's how she's managing this situation in which we've hardly talked to each other, seen each other that just bothers the life out of me.

Conversations have lasted fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, sometimes less than that, what can I say when I don't want her to go and fulfill her passion just because I really need to talk to her about nothing?

I try to understand, everyday that something like this happens I try to come up with a reason not to feel so unappreciated, left out, over powered. I say to myself "This will only last the rest of the week. Coming Sunday everything will be back to normal." I also try to convince myself that this is some sort of test that she's conducting just so she can see how crazy and ill she can sometimes make me feel... I've never been good at convincing myself though.

Even worse though are these constant thoughts and images that keep popping inside my sick little skull. All this having another activity that replaces a conversation with me seems far too familiar. It's far more possible that all this is merely a simple coincidence and the games my dirty mind plays on are achieving the purpose. I'd love to be wrong; I'd love to see all of this remain as a coincidence and never see it turn into an irony.

Separated from all that I need, I'm not surprised I've never felt so alone. It's so hard to be gentle and warm; to be able to give the words she needs when I don't feel I'm getting the time I deserve, that's when the thought of being taken for granted sinks so deeply in.

I am so afraid of her, she freezes me in place and it shakes my bones thinking what she's capable of doing. She could as easily kill me by only ignoring me. She could cut me to pieces if she wished it so. Finally all those words that the people without faces said are acquiring substance, "One of them will break first at the hands of time and distance." Will she leave me someday? My disease asks me if she's being unfaithful, I say "Yes." But, what would happen if something like that happened? What would I do? I've imagined the words, my expressions and everything that could happen the instant I close my eyes and imagine that everything is perfectly fine, when outside I'm losing her.

I have never met someone with such a grand potential for hurting me, someone to whom I have to be so careful with and at the same time love so incredibly much. But it's not that she is terrible, far from it it's the complete apposite, she just doesn't know of this capacity she has, and what she does is not something she does on purpose, her passions are her passions, for God's sake she wouldn't miss a single rehearsal even though I had only a week with her, but BECAUSE IT IS HER PASSION I let slide, it hers and not mine to control.

I just need another conversation, that is all.

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I small glimpse into my private life, I' incredibly uninspired and I dont know why I'm posting this.

The Rare Glimps 02

Posted at at 10:55 AM on April 08, 2005 by Posted by Jose | 1 comments | Filed under:

I'm Troubled

I'm troubled by the upcoming days, to see my life change so suddenly, to see everything I'm supposed to see.

I'm troubled by this unfounded hate directed at no one but enforced in every single way.

   I seek what can be destroyed, I look for what I can absorb, taking whatever I can throw on my back, a weight that pushes hard on my soul.

Don't tempt me, I'm troubled by the possibility of hurting you, hurting me.

   I find truth in solitude, warmth in desperation and life in inactivity. I take my time everyday to crawl out of all this sincerity.

I'm troubled by my good deeds, I want to hurt you, I'd love to see you bleed.

I'm troubled by this hate, unfounded and directed at no one but made larger ever passing day.

   Disconnect me, unplug my heart before this body goes too far.
   "Sticks and stones can brake your bones and my words can now
   destroy you
."

Agosto '04

Posted at at 10:32 PM on March 03, 2005 by Posted by Jose | 1 comments | Filed under:

The world can spin,
it can shake the floor
and drop me to the ground.

I'm embarrassed to say
that I've lost my vision
of how this world used to be.

I'm not convinced It's round
anymore.

The world can spit on me,
it can throw my dreams into
the floor and crush them
with her foot.

I'm troubled to realize
that I can do more then what
I'm intended for.
I'm not quite convinced that
my life was all laid flat on
the floor.

July '04

Posted at at 8:06 PM on February 26, 2005 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

Don't worry about me, I'm bound for worse things, so if you see me on the floor just wait,
I'm bound for fall farther down.

I find doubt throwing me deeper into loneliness, when a simple answer can change the way
I look at love, still hide safely behind a concrete wall.

Concrete can still break and a heart can still be mended.
The world can still be flat so that one can still fall of the edge.

Don't worry about the cloud over my head, it erases the steps I've made making sure I
don't turn back stare at my past.

I find the dust gathering on my shoulders, I drag the rocks behind my forgotten steps,
I've dropped love on the floor before I killed it with stones.

Stones can still break but love can survive under all their weight.
The world can turn into a ball and spin me dizzy out of my way.

July '04

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   Run it around my neck, place the collar and pull me back, I'm yours. Mistreat me then feed me to the dogs, clean me up and tell me that you love me before you kill me.

I'm your abuser, I'm the abused. The days hit hard both ways, the punches I've pulled are the wounds I've inflicted on myself.

   Turn the fire up, kiss me long before you throw me in the mud. I'll carry the sins too heavy for you as long as you're mine before you kill me. Before I disappear.

I'm the abuser and yo abuse me back, the silences are sharper than knives, they're the ignorance that's taking and eating away our lives.

   Bury me in the ground so I can save your space when you come visit me again.

Posted at at 6:48 PM on February 24, 2005 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

   I've tried to understand how life works then lead us away from what we were meant.

   I never thought I could live this long, yet I always thought this felt too wrong, the words of a man ring inside my skull asking me "Why do you deny human nature?"

I've lived my life against the balance of what my body does against what nature intends. I lived based on how I've loved and not by how I've been broken in half.

   It is fidelity that such a simple torture for myself, the fact of waiting and be left alone.

   I never believed someone would open to me so bold, a word so harsh, and intent to kill the years that passed with a simple act from an inaccurate theater act.

I've seen how my life wants me to be, taking turns at the wheel letting go whenever I forget how to drive. I've lived based on how I've been loved, never by how I've been torn apart.

And until all the breath decides to leave my lungs, I'll write these that tell the stories of then and now.

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   You drag me to where I can be dropped, the edge of sanity and piece of mind when I though I could get away from that this time.

   We walk where we were left to die, funny how the world where our hearts were broken and bodies mistreated seems to be our favorite place.

   A desert sun and scorching heat, a landscape once adored now only becomes our meeting point.

We escape, we walk to the cold where rain of fire is replaced by falling snowflakes.

   It's a matter of time before I close my eyes to move again, the time and space change what once was great into something that can easily be destroyed.

You are what creates and destroys each and everyone of my days.

So, how does one destroy what he loves the most? How does one survive with this thought eating him up inside?

January '05

Posted at at 4:50 PM on February 22, 2005 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

   I had a strange premonition of a hard
cold past and sinful memories.
   I have been the devil and I have been
the saint, I have flown in the clouds and
I have walked over burning coals.

Leave a light on for me, because next time
I come back, I'll never leave.

Forget our past and the tears we have spent,
not even hell can overpower whatever strength
we have left.

   My light is combined with darkness and
shade, It's my own little escape.
   For every good deed in my life I have
another sin, for every time I've flown in
the sky I have crashed on the ground.

   And burnt my feet.

Leave whatever you know of me for when
I come back I'll never leave.

Forget our past and stop planning the future,
whatever time we have is much better spent
in our own personal seclusion.

January '05

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STAB ME

All in all life learns to deal,
whatever might go down the only way
to walk will only be a bit farther up.

Steps that I take are steps I take
by myself.
My wings are broken and I'm just learning
how to run.


   So, whatever might come to meet me
   I'll always know where to run.
   If it were the other way around
   instead of death chasing me to the ground.

A pleasure to stabbed in the back,
the pain is deadlier,
but goes away quicker then in the heart.

A broken heart can always be mended
by another.
It's just that much easier to break it
once more.


   So, whatever comes looking for me
   I'll always know where to hide,
   So, instead of death looking for me
   I find myself looking for it.

   So, whatever life gives me back,
   I'll always know,
   that whatever I can do I can give
   it's life back.

Stab me in the back or in the heart,
I've been broken before,
It's easy for me to be broken again.


January '05

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ME AND (IN) MY PARANOIA

   It's these types of things that like to get into my head and rip it apart with images that most likely are the farthest from the truth possible but, nevertheless, they seem to get inside my demented little head. It doesn't take me much to get me started and for my imagination to run wild, a few words or some assumptions, even something that's not even there but I misinterpret, "What could this mean? Am I being laughed at? Am I being mocked? I really don't know, one can never be sure, one has to trust people more than I do now or else one can go even crazier than I am now.

   It's images I see in the dark, images in my head and I represent in writing or others peoples designs, sometimes I am not able to construct my own. These images naw away at my subconscious, eat my sanity and make me go to bed with all that will hurt me, nothing can ever help me from this. I trust people, that's MY nature, that's what I do, I've always thought that living a life of distrust is even more self-destructive than what I'm going through now, just because what I feel now is what I've imposed on myself, the problem is once I started I've found it hard to stop.

   I tend to confirm I images by latching on to any speck of evidence that supports my suspicions and ignore or misinterpret any evidence to the contrary. I'm ever watchful and may look around for signs of a threat, or it's just the fact that I misinterpret EVERYTHING. It's something so debilitating because here I am trying to figure out my whole life while just trying to ignore all my delusions, so hurting, so painfully THERE, I cant help but think the worst sometimes.

   It's absolutely frightening what my head comes up with.

Posted at at 10:58 PM on February 21, 2005 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

   There are so many other things out there that are more important than this but people cant seem to carry on with they're own lives, they have to delve into subject that will never, or at least not in a LONG time, be resolved; I'm saying other things are important than this because people sometimes take these things too seriously, religon and moral are a big thing dont get me wrong, but there are way to treat this, there are also other things one has to do, for example, go on with their lives. But like a I said, there are people who build their world and lives based far too much on these things, things they cannot change, maybe because the fact that religion is sometimes so "unchangable" that i's a sort of comfort these people loo for; a change scares some, for people like me, it's a welcome comfort.

   The reason for me writting abou this is that there has been a question I've been reading on my way to school, I say this because it's posted on a bulletin board on my way to my office, it asks "Should morals and religion be taught in the classroom?" and whats my answer you might ask, Morals = YES, Religion =Not as much. Theres a problem is this (and all countries) when people cannot distinguish the difference between morals and religion, one and the other might meld well together but aren't necessarily the same thing. It's strange how you can teach Morals without religion but you cant teach religion without morals.

   Obviously what pops into everyones head here is that if your going to teach morals in the classroom you're gonna have to throw in a few paragraphs from the Bible, why would you do that??? It's perfectly fine to to use Christ as an EXAMPLE, hell, you can use any religious figure for all I care as long you don't use him only, of course, I am one that doesn't mind hearing a bout any specific religion in class, after all I'm note religious at all and do not feel comfortable talking about it or experience people practicing what they believe in, I do feel it's incorrect to make a habit of referencing religious characters in any kind of moral study. Are these religious figures THE ONLY moral moral human beings that have existed (or have been created if you want)? Is there anyone out there that is an atheist but live morally? Of course there is, there has to be, demographically it's IMPOSSIBLE that this person does not exist.

   What I also think is that people tend to exaggerate too much on these kinds of subject, people nowadays if they see a person talking about their religion they feel like they[re being pressured to join, you cant give an opinion because it might be more based on religion than fact, if you believe in God it doesn't mean that you've been living a lie, at one point in time EVERYONE in the world believed in some sort of deity, so it's far from wrong. Now, that doesn't mean that being an atheist is completely wrong, I do have to admit it's a very comfortable way to go through every day but it's not really wrong, I think it's very practical, you go through your life living each day not worrying about whether that gum you stuck under the table or that lusty look you gave to that girl on the bus stop is going to be your ticket to hell.

   Religion should be used only as an example not as a strict "yes/no", "right/left", "you are wrong and I am right" subject, the problem is there are too many religions in this world that, regardless of their differences, basically they are the same, certain morals might be considered universal like helping your fellow man, the less fortunate, and these things aren't necessarily christain, they existed before anyone decided to write a book as influential as the Bible, there was just this guy who was smart enough to coin them as commandments. I say keep morals in class and bring in religion once in a while, but in way the shows that most religions have these same morals, might make a more interesting class that way.

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   Jealousy is a strange thing, it can drive to achieve what you need or it can drive you completely mad, even simple things, small confessions suddenly known that really have no value or worth are felt almost as stabs, one cannot help to be envious of a person who has the ability to do or see what one cannot. When I read the words I felt slapped, but not by her but by my own feelings, I later looked at the person and tried to figure out why and how she would think of him like that, what made to interesting, attractive, what does he have that I dont, 'cus even if I dont like to admit it every day of at least one semester she did what she could to be in his class

   These are my own demons, my own envy, my won jealousy, I cant help but sometimes hate those people that can see her every single day and take her for granted, I've never done so and I've convinced myself never to do that and that's exactly what makes me so angry, I cant go a single day without wishing, praying, asking for an opportunity to be with her and there's all these group of people around her that just cant see what I see in her, I see so much and I miss it all.

   So I live with my envy, my jealous towards all those people around her, with my constant necessity to be near her, kiss her, hold her, anything but with her, I live with it because it is my choice.
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"AND DEATH SHALL HAVE NO DOMINION"

And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.

                                 Dylan Thomas

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   So it's the freaking New Year, although I'm posting a bit late concerning this subject I still have something to say about this.

   Lets just say the New Year has never had that much appeal to me, it really just is another just made important because someone decided to invent the calendar not because something important happened on this date. For many it's a way to start changing the way they are, they come up with new years resolutions to change themselves just because they're not satisfied with themselves; if you didn't do all those things during the OTHER 364 days of the last year you're most likely not going to do them this time around.

   I still celebrate though, if I didn't I would crap up the celebration with my family and we do all the rituals (that were strangely lacking this year) like going out with some luggage, sweeping stuff out the door, eating 12 grapes for every wish at every strike of the clock at midnight (that is actually very hard, try to eat a grape every second AND coming up for a wish for the next year), the red or yellow underwear (for love or money respectively) among others, so with all this luggage hauling new years eve because somewhat entertaining, yet I still have not found a good enough reason to celebrate if I were by myself.

   It's just another day, like starting a new week, or a new month, who celebrates the start of Feburary? Who knows, that's just my take on it.

   New Yea's Eve is overrated.
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Posted at at 1:32 PM on January 06, 2005 by Posted by Jose | 1 comments | Filed under:



   Two nightmares in a row, in the first you were bare for everyone except me, in the later you carrying someone elses future, you were in both of them and I was watching you slip away in different ways. In both you were farther than me than you are now.

   Why would I dream that? Why would those images haunt me so? The rest of my hours awake I killed myself with images of the violence I believed I deserved, of the submission I thought I was entitled to, yet I could only just watch and see my nightmares fade away...

   ...and remain in writing.
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Posted at at 1:25 AM on December 29, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 1 comments | Filed under:

   So Christmas has come and gone but I'm not about to bore you with another one of those "yule tide Christmas posts" everybody is doing right about now, whoever reads my blog and knows me knows I wish them the best, those you don't, hey what the hell, Merry Christmas.

   A trip to Chicago and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) playing for us, that was the main atraction for this december, that was what I was looking forward to the most in this frigid and to some, lonely month. Isela came to visit me in Warrensburg but we were far from staying in that awfully boring town, Chicago was our final destination and final destination it was, there we passed three of the best days we've had in this one year and seven months we've been together, well, sort of together.

   Although the CSO wasn't all that we expected, at least the Branford Marsalis piece, it was a disappointment the same way your disappointed when you get to your hotel room and realize it looks absolutely nothing like what you saw in the brochure, you scoff and criticize but you just don't really care.

   School is also over and people constantly ask me what do I have to say about my first semester teaching and what I say is "Thank God it's over!" It's not that I didn't have any fun or it wasn't fulfilling, I just wanted it over, a good winter break is what I needed at this moment. But with the semester over and all my student's grades turned in I'm starting to receive all those nasty emails from them complaining about their grade, how that not satisfied with what they got and if there was anything they could do to raise their score a little, well, all I can say to that is too little too late, I gave them a chance to turn in extra credit and most of the people that are complaining now are exactly those people that did not turn it in, besides, theres not much I can do when a student has 12 absences and the rest are most tardies. He still passed though.

   So now I'm home and the change of weather has been felt, from the minus something degrees in Missouri to the balmy 30 somethings (this is in Celsius by the way, not Farhenheit) in Guadalajara, Mexico. I'm kinda starting to feel that little itch in my throat of a cold coming on, who knows, It will be strange how I never got sick back at work and now that I'm home with absolutely nothing to do BOOM, a cold. Well, who really cares about that? I'm just rambling.

   Back to Chicago, it snowed on our stay there, and we were this close to not being able to come back, which wouldn't have been a problem since we were having so much fun, if only those two feet of snow had fallen in Chicago and not northern Indiana. *sigh. This snowfall was very important for her, it had been so long since she had seen snow fall so incredibly strong as it did that night, as old as we feel sometimes it's thing like these that bring out some incredible behavior in some of us, you should have seen us try to catch snow with our mouths all dressed for the symphony, and I have to give merits to her, she was wearing high heels and was catching more than I was.



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   Well, this next week will feel like that night before the last day of school, at least until new years when everything is supposed to change, everything is supposed to get a second chance, what if I don't need one? What If I feel perfectly fine the way I am right now? What I don't want to bother with a second chance right now? We'll see what happens after I start missing her as much as I was a couple weeks ago.

   But now that it's Christmas some of us have to go to the obligatory church mass, even if we haven't gone all year we have to go today, which ends up only being a pageant for everybody to show off all the new shit they got for Christmas, it's been so long since I've noticed that church going has turned from being something religious to something more in the like of some strange animal's mating rituals, but don't get me wrong, as much fun as it would be to see people have sex in the church sidewalk it never escalates to more than courting the male or female of the species, each one of them wearing their new pair of shoes, pants or jacket, some people will even be showing off cell phones and brand new cars; did I mention I'll be walking to church and that I cant find my cellphone? Well, anyway, it's about that time, I have to go get dressed to go to church, I have to iron my new shirt.

   Cheers and Merry Christmas.


   (Man did I ramble on today.)

Posted at at 2:20 PM on December 25, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:


"I remember running through the wet grass, falling a step behind."

   The sunset last night was somewhat like this one, but I didn't have my camera at the time, I didn't have that recording eye, I saw it, but I can paint a picture on the screen from my mind. There some kind of images you see that make you realize how far are all the gratest painters in the world from actually capturing reality, colors they can never reproduce, "Sunset Pink" or "Sunset Orange", there are some colors, some visuals that will never be able to reproduce.

   Take it in paniters, artists, you'll never be able to reproduce such beautiful scenes.


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Posted at at 2:40 PM on December 09, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

We don't need no education

   A double negative? It looks as if Pink Floyd really did need a little bit of education.

   The person who is a professor is always misunderstood, 22 years of my life I lived on the opposite side of the desk, but now that I've gotten to know the other side I say to myself, "how badly we treated some professors." It's my first full semester as a professor of Spanish as a Second Language and my views are varied, for lack of a better word. I had two classes three days a week; mondays, wednesdays and fridays, at 9 and 11 o'clock in the morning; it's impressive how only two hours can make such a difference in the attitude of the students.

   It might become a full fledged anthropological case, it can also be a case of little sleep and too much drinking because it looked as though half of my 9 o'clock class were always hungover or still half drunk, meanwhile, the 11 o'clock class only arrived half hungover but more coherent. I don't know, maybe it's this "American way of life" that I cant get used to or, simply, doesn't interest me.

   The difference is seen clearly in the grades, but it is something I cannot dispense since it's private information, or until the student or guardians permits it, which I wont take the time to ask. Now it's only a matter of time to see how they do next week on the final.

   We will see.

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"It feels like somebody's watching me"

   I'm being watched by someone that I cannot clearly indentify, I am distracted, my sight is on the opposite direction while this being rests it's sight on me. ¿Where am I? ¿From where am I being watched? I dont care who is watching me, I only need to realize if I am or not confused.

   Find me a place where we can hide away and nobody can see us anymore.
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   It is incredible how November has come to be such an important month, and we're still haven't even hit the half-way mark.

   November 2nd was the start of all this, the elections in the United States, the first "Big" election I was to witness head on, even though being from the border, I got most of the election shindig whenever it happened, I was still in Mexico and it never really affected or involved me in any way.

   There's was a big expectation early one and belief that the Democrats and John Kerry would win, the big turnout that every newscast was commenting about seemed to be a sign of support for Kerry, what a disappointment that was.

   Even though it was a close race, "point wise", the popular vote surprisingly showed an indisputable margin of almost 4 million votes, that's too big of a lead for it to be called another "Florida Incident." The people voted, and they decided to give Bush another four years, I cant say I totally agree with that decision, but I cant really say that Kerry was the best choice either.

   In my particular opinion, the most important matter right now is the war in Iraq, that was my main focus, Bush is aiming to keep it up as long as he can, in his words "...In order to defeat terrorism." Which, I think It's impossible to do, specially with SO MANY (not only people) but countries not in favor of this , so called, War on Terrorism. If that were the case, after Iraq, the United States would go against Spain because of the ETA, or Colombia with the drug wars, or Mexico for that matter with the EZLN, which has, thankfully died down in the elast few years.

   Has anyone ever thought of how scared or terrorized some people and countries are of the United States, the fact that the US holds so much power, enough of it to literally crush any opponent it wishes, isn't that a sort of terrorism, probably not the one everyone is used to; religious fanatics blowing up buildings, missiles flying and hitting God knows what target, dynamite clad suicide bombers who were offered a better life in martyrdom. The US elaborates a sort of control, economically speaking, that puts any other country in a state of terror, any change in the US economy is a change in the economy of most Latin America, if it's a good change or a bad one, most of the time it means bad news for Latin America.

   Terrorism is everywhere and there is no way to stop it, there will always be someone afraid of someone else, there will always be someone oppressing his neighbor, there will always be the governor, and the governed, the weak and the strong.

   Kerry wasn't the best choice either, I really don't have much to say about him, but I would have voted for him if I were a citizen. Why? Because he would've ended the war and brought back the troop as soon as possible, or at least that's what he said, and that's we have to rely on.

   To me, Nader was just a waste of a vote, you couldn't even consider it as a "Protest Vote" since it was so insignificant, voting for someone you know is not going to win is not a protest vote, it's a wasted one. Everyone gets the freedom of choice, I agree, so make that vote count for something. I believe most, if not all, the people that voted for Nader were against both Bush and Kerry, but the only thing they really did here, by voting for Nader, was help Bush win, those very few votes Nader received could've made the race a lot closer and another outcome might have surfaced.

   Thanks for making your vote not count.

   So we're stuck with Bush for 4 more years, let's see what he does before he blows up the world.

Posted at at 1:08 PM on November 12, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

   I'm still a bit lost, your body is still a mistery
to me, still plenty of you to explore.
But I never seem to have the time, it's always
over to soon and we say goodbye for tonight.

   For every experience from before, you are
the most subtle, complex and intriguing.
But don't keep the door locked for me, don't leave
me to sleep alone outside of your bed tonight.

My imagination slips on your image, like it always
does. My body slips back to the real world when
you're gone.
I swear I try to keep awake, but sleeping tonight
means I can play with time...

...And make you come back to bed again.

   We see and write what we can, memorizing
lines so we can something to talk about.
But if our minds can think of these words, I say
let our bodies do all the talking.

Talk to me, I'm listening, I only have ears for
your voice, kiss these lips that only want to kiss
yours.
Take me away, I'm ready to be taken away again.

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   I played God the other day, changing reality,
making believe that the world being round is a lie.
   Heaven went dry the minute spoke, I wrecked
whatever I had built, I had buried all underground.

I'd do anything for a change, I'd do anything for a
different point of view, I'd do anything to know how
to kill you.

   I played & lost the other day, putting a smile
in the table all I got back was a frown.
   Hell froze over the minute I dropped the lie,
I destroyed a whole town of possibilities.

I'd do anything for a chance, an instant for the
distance to go away & to cry from a kiss or
embrace than of loneliness instead.

To feel appreciated instead of threatened,
to smoothly fly instead of crash landing all
the time.

To hear a particular voice instead of a crowd,
to find that perfect face I've been hanging on the
wall.

Particular, flawless, perfect & so far away, winter
will bring you back & take you away again.
I'm nailing the snowflakes to the sky, I'm playing God
again & shouting at the sun.

Posted at at 7:30 PM on October 25, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 1 comments | Filed under:

   What's all this I'm giving to myself? A new, completely different
undarkened place, a brand new lonely routine for me.
Lights and & rain, music & temptations dance all together in a
single place. Of all thethings I thought were mine, I realize now,
they were never for me.

   But my thoughts were drilling a hole outside, to let the air come inside
and exchangeit for some light.
Reflections & strangers, names & faces all converge in a single word of
loneliness, it is worth it seeing this as anything but the exact same.

Float me away to a room with fewer walls & a tin roof,
something I can easily break through.

Ride me in top of smoother ground, without glass & stone,
somewhere I can say I'mnot alone.

   My imagination reshapes all of my reality into something I don't know
but that fancies predictability.
Sleep & dreams, affection & love are the prizes I've failed to earn every time
I distance myself to heal, but end up only feeling terribly alone.

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   What's all this I'm giving to myself?
A new, completely different undarkened place,
a brand new lonely routine for me.
Lights and & rain, music & temptations dance
all together in a single place. Of all the
things I thought were mine, I realize now,
they were never for me.

   But my thoughts were drilling a hole outside,
to let the air come inside and exchange it for some light.
Reflections & strangers, names & faces
all converge in a single word of loneliness,
it is worth it seeing this as anything but the exact same.

Float me away to a room with fewer walls & a tin roof,
something I can easily break through.

Ride me in top of smoother ground, without glass & stone,
somewhere I can say I'm not alone.

   My imagination reshapes all of my reality into something
I don't know but that fancies predictability.
Sleep & dreams, affection & love are the prizes I've failed to earn
every time I distance myself to heal, but end up only feeling terribly alone.

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   Hopefully something more, of all that I'm already wishing for,
I ask for something more.
   All this is time consuming, in between the insanity, all this
sanity is time consuming.

Occupying a space much too large for my frail body, a sudden
cold promises a much waited and lonely place to be.

Leave the cold outside, we need not leave the bed and lose this
comforting warmth.

   Something much less harmful, from the distances we destroy,
all I seek is something completely harmless.
   Other than that, instead of finding ourselves in the same barren
desert. I seek something other than that.

Changing the space much to my accord, I still look for you to fill
a space feel so cold.

Leave the cold outside, we need not see the sky when we can
make up our own falling stars.

   Help me realize how much I care for you, remind me by
   coming and knocking on my door.

Posted at at 1:37 PM on October 23, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

   Feeling a walking distance away from a peculiar fall from grace,
a strange enough sensation in a strange unfamiliar atmosphere.

Impulses controlling an obvious urge, to quench a desire,
probably more of a necessity.

If I ever fall from grace, if it's time that's breaking me now, I hope
I land on softer ground.

   These unfamiliar words, these sudden unaccustomed feelings
of killing the demons of my own personal desires.

I'm slowly falling to the ground and I'm doubting if I should ever
hold on.

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Did you ever find out where it all comes about? It is where I am
or where your body rests, the place where all this fit together again?

   Passion for blood, the distance is the air I breath, the days are
the rhythm of my heart. Since when has it been appropriate to feel
this way?

Did you ever manage to find an answer to my question? Of where
it all started, how we passed by that date after a year wide? lets
find it again.

   The most Precious of my days, most already passed us by, we only
have those that haven't died. Since when has my future ever seemed so
bright?

   You know almost too well how my world turned on a dime
   and changed it's direction. I flew over you the day I needed
   you the most. Beyond us, that's where everything that's ours lies...

Posted at at 1:45 PM on October 22, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:


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A whole month in Warrensburg, I really cant say I've seen a lot, but I really wont say that haven't seen anything worth mentioning. I'm pretty sure I'm making friends here that will last me the rest of my life, not only my fellow professors, or people I meet here, but also students.

Classes are still going well, at least I think. My 11 o'clock class is a lot more interesting than my 9 o'clock one, and it shows on the grades they got on their first quiz. It's not that I don't like my 9 o'clock, it's just so difficult to try to reach people that don't want to be reached, that are not making the smallest effort to learn. They still did well though, cant complain.

Spanish Club is another thing I was, sort of, obligated to join, It's really nothing else than people getting together, native and non-native Spanish speakers to, speak Spanish; "No English or other foreign language allowed." That should be the motto. It's actually very interesting.

I cant really say much more, I've been absorbed by work (and as of now, hunger), but it hasn't been as hard as I thought it would. It's actually very entertaining, and everyday, I go home satisfied or, at least, in a good mood, knowing that in one of classes someone learned something, whether something important or not as much, but SOMETHING.

I promised I would post here more often, and I will, soon.

Cheers y'all

Posted at at 12:17 PM on September 15, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

YOU'LL NEVER KNOW

To calm this animal desire with something so human Where is what I want when I least need it? Where can I find everything that I hurt myself with?

You'll never know what it is to have lived if you haven't died, you'll never know the complete extension of love until you've hated.

To wear the chains of a past much better put away than forgotten, carrying the weight only to walk a little slower, when you need to feel a little lower.

You'll never know how it feels to fly, until you crash and burn, you'll never know how it is to need someone until you're forgotten and alone.

To cry until you're completely dry, to run until you collapse,
to soother until it hurts, to fail until you've tried.

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Calm my demons down, however small they may be,
they're demons none of the less.
Fears that have grown, insecurities that have remained,
all those darkened memories that remain.

A soul this small can grow bigger than you know, If I can be killed
and survive, there's nothing in the world that I can't go through.

They take their sweet time, they chew on my bones
and leave my soul for dessert, they always leave enough of me
for tomorrow.

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   Another week, another little something something to write about.

   Life in Warrensburg, ahh, what a joy, two more weeks of what this all was about, my classes have started to develope some sort of shape, an I've been finding out some things I haven't realized until now, that make this trip a little less appealing, but that is not going stop me from enjoying my stay here. I'll tell about this later on.

   Starting almost everyday at 7 o'clock in the morning so I could make myself a good breakfast and be ready for my 9 o'clock class of Elementary Spanish. That morning class, I have to say, is gut wrenching for me, I go into class saying "Buenos Días", and all I get are mixed mumbles in half Spanish, english and some sort of half asleep, half woken dialect I am yet to understand. This mood continues all the way until the end of class, I'm trying to motivate them, trying to make them participate, utilizing various things, methods, to make the class a little bit more energetic, active.

   I finish my morning class a bit depressed, thinking I'm just doing a terrible job, this mood remains with me until I, around, half way my 11 o'clock class, where my student in that class are completely different, they are energetic, they are participating in class, they are IN CLASS. I'm out of class, and I'm feeling a whole lot better.

   It's what happens to me every time I go to teach, I go there absolutely terrified, but leave completely satisfied with myself. This much mood change can be hazardous for me.

   Life out of the classroom remains quite the same, quiet enough for me not to be disturbed, I have this small space that I can use for anything I want, and enough time to actually take advantage of the tiny apartment. The truth is, it´s more space than I need, but dont tell anyone.

   Other things in my social life are normal, eventual night outs, almost just on the fridays, saturdays are days that are a little mixed, a little "Me-Time" a little time out on the bars. Talking about bars, two more bars I can review, "Old Barney's" which is more like "OPEN" in Juárez, dingy, dirty and fun, hehehehe. I liked that bar. "East PIne Street Pub", just more traditional, laid back, a good opener before going anywhere else.

   Now, going back to that news about the situation here. It seems as though they're not treating us as they should, looking into things, Caroline and I discovered that, in fact we shouldn't be teaching our own class, much less two. We should only be doing activities like Conversation and Discussion Groups, help students and be nothing more than Assistant Professors, also, we are not getting paid close as much as we should for the work we do. At first I always thought that it evened out with the university providing the apartment in the Foster Knox dorm, and me not being charged for the classes I'm taking, but, as I see it, there are a lot of apartments in Foster Knox that are empty, that means there isn't any waiting list, that also means the university isn't actually losing anything in us occupying this space.

   All this doesn't mean that I'm not going to do a better job, I'm not like that, I just hope the university realizes this soon, we dont deserve it.

   Going back to the space I have for myself here, I realize more everyday how it's sometimes too much space for me, I stand alone in my room just trying to picture Isela walking around the room smiling at me, asking to me join her at whatever activity she is in, whether it's trying to clean my apartment up a little, or taking a long bath, how I miss her.

   This place is too big for me, I need her to occupy it with me, but she's far away right now, she wont be around for the next 3 months, I miss you Precious.

Posted at at 9:32 PM on September 05, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

   Drive me mad, show me the world and place it just beyond
the reach of my hand. Show me how close I am to proving
your wrong.

Bring the rain, let it fall on my hands and cool off my feelings,
I need the space, I need a place to start from the beginning.

   To seek this chance, to exchange this place, dark and lonely,
for something grander, troublesome and lonely responsibility.

Posted at at 11:14 AM on September 04, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

I LEAVE TO FORGET

   Remind me of the past that I'm about to forget,
If I'm living an endless present, from where will I
learn and regret?

I leave to forget and I forget to give myself a reason
to come back. If my past is gone, how am I going to find
my way home.

   Lightning strikes, lights fill the shadows
of this once empty room. A dark cave waiting to be
lit my memories.

I leave to forget and forget why I left in the first
place. If my past must die the instant I'm born, where
will my future come from?

   Killing the shadows, that's how I control the sadness
   of a head once filled with unforgettable memories.

Posted at at 12:20 AM on August 30, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

I'm finding a road, all withered & forgotten,
a road that will take me exactly where I want to be.

Far away from here.

I'm arriving alone, but I will be joined by someone before long.
Caged inside my hollow cube, there will only enough space for someone like you.

I'm looking up a hill, dense in brush & darkness,
my feet run over it & before I ask myself why I started
running, I realize, you are on the other side.

I'm waiting without company to be held, I'm waiting here until we can
call all this "home".
Caged in another country, there are only so many places for you & me.

It's when I try to talk that I seem to forget what we
were talking about.
I'm lost in more of your things than just your eyes.

Posted at at 10:49 AM on August 28, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

Almost a month now after my last post, I'm happy to announce that my new place of residence has changed from being in Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico, to Warrensburg, Missouri, USA, pretty harsh change if any of you know Guadalajara and Warrensburg, or let alone, Mexico and the US.

Warrensburg is a small town in Missouri, just a little South-east of Kansas City, it's about 1 -1 & 1/2 hour drive to KC, and about 5 hours to St. Louis in the west.

Ok, I've had so little time, what with fixing up my apartment, my social security number, my classes (the ones I'm giving AND the ones I'm taking), and with getting to know Central Missouri State University (from now on referred to as "CMSU").

The city is nice and quite tranquil, only 15,000 people live here and it almost doubles with all the students coming to study here. There's nothing much to do really, every night out starts at Pine St. Either, that's where most, if not all, the bars are. A night out could start in "Garrison's" or "Fidder's" which look like the most popular places, those AND Wal-Mart.

The parties are very "American" lots of beer and mixing with other drinks, most of the time people bring their own drinks, which is actually better, but the host still has to clean up afterwards. Simply put, they enormous, probably too big for this town, too big for me no doubt, by 2 in the morning I've had more than enough of the crowed and prefer to go home and sleep.

After 1:30, that 3rd call and they kick you out, there is always a party around somewhere, either at one of the dorms, or at ones unsuspecting apartment, which he'll inevitably permit, what with all the people around and not wanting to be an asshole.

Now, the classes I'm taking are American Literature to 1865, that's an American Culture class I had to take, but it's actually looking pretty interesting, my other class is Historical Archaeology, that on looks interesting, we'll see how that goes.

So today I taught my first two classes, to two groups of 30 people; by Friday I'm sure that number will go down dramatically, it'll probably be a huge bummer for my ego, but, it'll make the semester a lot more easier.

You can immediately figure out which are gonna be "the problem students", kids who actually know more than they should for that class, which they actually shouldn't take, because, even after my warning, they will not get credit for that class if they have more than 3 years of Spanish, prior, to this class. Basically, those kids want an easy grade. I have to kick those people out of my class.

My first class, 9:00am, was a bit complicated, I should've been more prepared, it went well, but it could've gone better, and I really thought it was gonna go worse. I went on for the full 50 minutes, which I probably shouldn't have, just because it was the first class, I should've given the kids a break. Thankfully, after that class, I managed to sneak in another 1601 Spanish class, where I got some pointers form a fellow teacher. So my 11:00 am class went on a lot more smoothly and, I think, the kids enjoyed it a lot more.

everything's cool, the weather is a bit hot and humid, but it'll get colder than anything I've experienced, which is weird because, believe it or not, I'm actually looking forward to that. I cant wait for it to snow.

That's it for now, I'' try to post more as I go, I'm sorry for anyone who actually was a daily reader of my blog, I'll get up to date. Thanks

Cheers

Posted at at 5:07 PM on August 25, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

Well, I've been out for a long time now, about 10 days with a whole lot to say, mostly why I haven't posted enough updates recently.

The thing is, I'm moving to Missouri next Thursday (the 12th), I'm going to give Spanish classes as an Intern Teacher at CMSU (central Missouri State University) for the whole school year, so, coming this Thursday, I'll be living the
"American Way of Life."

I'm excited, yet a bit frightened, I know half of the fear is in the anticipation of something, so I'm swallowing all the fear and just letting this happen. The truth is, I want it to start already.

I got this gig through an Intercultural exchange program called "Amity", which interviews prospects to teach they native language in the United States, it offers them a Host Family and a small stipend so, basically, one needs money for his own little spendings, since you're not paying for food nor housing. Anyone interested should check the webpage out.

So I start off next Monday with orientation, that'll be from the 16th, up to the 22th, I think, they'll be showing us how CMSU works, how they would like us to work , all that stuff.

I'm gonna have to get used to a lot of things, what with the differences between Mexican an American culture, I've lived near the border most of my life, but to say that life in El Paso TX, is completely American, is way off. For starters, Mexicans are a bit more liberal, Sexual Harassment is not a big thing here, and stares, comments and such, are much more tolerated here than they are up north.

I have no problem with the food, it will actually be good to me since I need to gain a few kilograms to get to my ideal weight. Other than that, everything should be ok.

I'll be living in a small town called Warrensburg, it only has a population of about 15,000, of which 10,000 are students at CMSU, so the atmosphere should be interesting.

I'll be turning this weblog into a sort of online journal on my experiences over there, whoever reads this will probably see a change, cutting down a little on poetry and seeing more free writes, it'll probably get more interesting.

Anyways, let's this over with, two more days and I'll be outta here, wish me luck people.

Posted at at 11:16 PM on August 09, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

   I try to find some denial, I try to ignore the obvious and let life
take me where I'm supposed to be, every once in a while.

There are doors inside my head that I've kept shut with all my good intentions,
yet I find you trying to unlock your way inside my brains, I maintain them closed
and I have my reasons.

   Sometimes I might choke on the feelings of a past, but other
than feeling love, It's how I've learned to feel alive.

These doors are what I've learned from the past, I never open them
but I keep them close by, so they're not opened again.

Posted at at 9:31 PM on July 29, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 1 comments | Filed under:

I find it so hard to believe, how in my sunniest day I prefer
a colder shade, where colors are crowded, life goes a calmer
way.

My eyes are emeralds that are attracted to places that have
been blackened, the colors of hope rely on the existence of
despair.

   I start to move, the sun changes the color of my skin and I
turn into something else, something I do not wish to recognize.
   The rest of me I have hidden underneath my sleeve, the
part you've already accepted, but I'm not willing to set free.

I have so much to live for, then, why am I in so much pain?
Why am I afraid of losing you again?

Life goes on... Doesn't it? Yet, it's easier to just die.

Posted at at 5:45 PM on July 25, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

   Ten minutes from departing, People!!!! Pray, think about me, any good karma will help during these next two weeks.

   Cheers y'all.

Posted at at 9:29 AM on July 09, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 1 comments | Filed under:

   Alright, so yeah, I've been absent for oh so long now, I've just been really busy with lots of stuff that's been happening... FINALLY!!! Things to do.

   All last week, a friend of mine visited me, she came to enroll on a masters degree course in Marketing, at a local public University, she did all her stuff, with the usual let downs, and sudden pick me ups. After she finished with that, I had to drive her around town and show her the sights, like the famous Minerva I've talked about in earlier posts (WAY earlier). After she left, I thought I had a few days to relax, and write a little, I've actually spent more time writing on my journal (real live pen and paper thing) than on my blog, sometimes it's a lot more relaxing.



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   Anyway, an opportunity came up for me to acquire a car, a 2004 Pointer, so I jumped to the occasion and got my car, YAY!!!! Nice little standard car to get me all around the city.

   Now, on friday I'll be leaving town to hed north for about ten days, I'm gonna sell some stuff I bought here, mostly arts and crafts made my hand, It's a little business I'm trying to start with a good friend from up there so, hopefully, all will go well.

   Wish me luck!!! =D

Posted at at 8:54 PM on July 06, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:


   

   A lot has happened recently around my state. Early and unexpected rainfall has caused underground water banks to grow and, as a result, the ground has been, literally, opening up, swallowing cattle and even people; three fire fighters have swallowed up, two have been rescued, one still remains missing, and it's difficult to say if he'll be found.

   
   This happened in small town called Nextipac, in the state of Jalisco, here in Mexico, the place has already been declared a disaster zone, that way the state can get fund and resources from the Natural Disasters Fund (or FONDEN here in Mexico). Reason being that customs have delayed the entry of machinery necessary for the rescue of the firefighter and control of the new chasm.


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   The problem that geologists have found new chasms, and with more rains coming, it's very likely that these will open up and pose a serious danger for the people of Nextipac, most of whom refuse to leave they're homes, where the chasms continue to lead.



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   Since the first fireman fell into the chasm, two others fell in hopes of rescuing him, these two were saved immediately, but the first one still remains missing. Little hope remains of him being found alive, let alone, being found.

Posted at at 10:20 AM on July 03, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:

There are still places of you for me to go,
theres still of you to see.

   In all this darkness that I let surround me,
there are always small flashes of light that
fly through me.

There you are, in my dark abode, I use words
to describe your silhouette in this gentle
twilight.

I have so much beauty around me, that the
darkness turns into light and my world is, again,
lit up...

   And I'm shown the way, through the desert
and up the mountains, across the world and into
your room...

... when I wake up, what I find next to me, is you.

Dreams slowly fade, my body awakes to find
the same pleasant darkness.
I fall asleep again, and wait until the darkness
turns into light.

Posted at at 8:08 PM on July 01, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 0 comments | Filed under:


I have my own private inspiration, an aspect of my life that no one else, in this whole world has. Of all the things, that make my existence, something particular, she is the greatest one.
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Posted at at 12:08 AM on June 27, 2004 by Posted by Jose | 1 comments | Filed under: