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Zulu Samperfas Jan 2013
You know you shouldn't do it
You know it won't solve any of your problems
You try to talk yourself out of it
You can predict all the bad stuff that will befall
You feel safe for a few moments
Then you do it.
Zulu Samperfas Jan 2013
1984, my new Macintosh 512K gleamed before me
So modern.  I was on the cutting edge cusp of the techno revolution
I remember the sound it made as you put in the start up disk
That disk was so small, like smaller than a 45 record and stiff like a credit card

We were all so techno.  
Everyone who was anyone in my dorm had ditched their IBM Selectrics for a Mac.
I couldn't type, so this was a total just plain survival
Being able to sleep through the sound of that dot matrix printer pounding out
a paper you'd just finished at 9 AM for a 10 AM class became a dorm life skill

I got an i-phone today.  It's so kool and modern
I am so techno and I look around the
Verizon store and wonder how quaint a picture of this place will look
in 50 years.
What will be new then?
This store will look like the computer that filled a warehouse to send astronauts to the moon.
And it's that technology that gave me the i-phone
What lasts?  
Ideas, meaning, poems, concepts, stories, universal truths...the same things
the ancients could carry with them from camp to camp
Zulu Samperfas Jan 2013
The guy I'm obsessing about
I saw his picture and without a doubt
I was horrified at the sight
Dear God, it's taken all my might
To rid myself of this recurring dream
my morbid fantasy
and I could scream
When it comes to men I'm truly crazy!
Zulu Samperfas Jan 2013
writing is thinking
teaching is what I do for a living
you're not supposed to say I like teaching for
the vacations, but that's a big perk
Plus, you don't have to sell things
and you get to do something meaningful for money

My thoughts become murky
How do I get my script from A to C?
the B part, it's shrouded in mist
like a grasp for it but there is no spine

I wanted to finish it this vacation
but I always want to vacate, too
Life is too short and we do our best
the worst is to waste your precious energy
worrying because you only have control of so much

Stay in the moment, even if it is painful and not what you want
Even when you are tired at work and it's the last place you
want to be and you think you'll be fired
just be there
it makes it better
be there for all your moments
is all you can do
Zulu Samperfas Jan 2013
A restaurant is honest about what they have, more or less
Do you have real brewed Ice Tea?  
May I have that table by the sea?
I've never settled into a restaurant, read the menu and run out
Dating is like being blind, maybe like that dark room at the Oakland "Exploratorium"
that I was always too scared to go in as a child
You hear what he has, and you have only your feelings to guide you
Alas, most are not good: man boy, been there, done that:
Exploded spine, dislocated ankle, internal injuries, crashed car or two or three
A feeling inside: no, I don't like this, but the conversation is only just beginning
and another voice says: poor thing, you must stay and help
And besides, it's rude to run out of a restaurant
This ain't no restaurant: psychology has told me
"This is all about your mother"
Poor thing, I had to stay and help, or she would become wickedly
brutally angry, a white rage to burn me to ashes, and I am blind
feeling my way through feelings that have been messed with, lassoed to the ground
hog tied, and somehow set themselves free, then learned to tie themselves down just to please
It's dark in here.  No one can see if I run away.
I look around, see only blackness and no one can see me, not even she
I untie the ropes and walk away.
Zulu Samperfas Jan 2013
I said, to myself.
More than your mother does, or your father
Enough to make you safe
to leave energy for empathy and understanding
Enough to value life,
even through its rough and winding roads
leave cuts and wounds that bleed,
"because you are all I have," I said
My whole life
has been a struggle to not drain out
to stay here and remember I exist
Zulu Samperfas Jan 2013
Just little tiny pieces
inside my battered psyche
I'm not writing about wars
or climate "change" even though
I remember when we called it Global Warming
I guess that was too much reality
And it's now an eventuality
today I've backed from the abyss
It's personal, I admit
Nothing that will effect life in the Middle East
or even the next street
But for me the change is huge, that I can pick myself
up from the blues so much faster than before
And if I can do it, so can anyone, that's the score
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