July 2012
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The Chemical Chronicles: Mania Wanted.
“I am so screwed,” I thought as I sat on the edge of my bed crying. It was almost 2 a.m. and Sam had just broken up with me.
“I don’t want to break up with you. I feel like I’m not going to,” he said. Fast forward ten minutes and he was taking it back, telling me he needed to let me go. Despite all other things I could think, bipolar disorder was number one on the brain.
“I’m either waking up in...
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The Chemical Chronicles: Kill Pills.
After two panic attacks, a night in an ER and reaction of “sucks for you” from my first shrink, a new pill and doctor were in order. I had no idea where to begin. There is no shrink directory to turn to, no compilation of personalities or styles, only a Google bar blinking at me with a dumbfounded look.
“Austin psychiatrists,” I type.
Names upon names meaning nothing appear. I scroll...
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The Chemical Chronicles: Mania Written.
We interrupt your normal scheduling to bring you a manic episode.
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“Sammy. Sammy. Sammy!” I’m shaking my boyfriend awake. “I’m gonna go home. I’ll be back.”
“Okay,” he grumbles, half asleep. “I love you.”
“I love you too.”
Love is why I leave. I’ve woken up in a state of mania and if he so much as turns over the wrong way I am going to unscrew his head, mount it on a spike...
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Self Talk.
I write to be honest. With myself, with the world.
So where the fuck has that gone lately?
It’s lost in this cluster fuck of a year I’d like to call “moving to Austin and clawing tooth and nail every fucking second to get it right.” It’s buried into a hole of insecurity that’s been dug around each misstep I’ve made. It’s hidden itself in the...
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In That Space.
Between racing lines
and jumbled letters
are images of you.
They don’t belong and never did,
but failure to understand this truth
leaves them as
frozen images
in a winter past.
A consonant here,
a verb there,
all dressed in visions of you
in manipulative best.
They blur together
as I lay between dark ceilings and dreaming -
a place anything is possible.
There my...
