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i have cut love out of me. have i cut love out of me?

why do i do this? connections refused. the dial tone.

i want to refuse something. like judy's death: expelling every ounce of the body. blood, bile, vomit. the interior made exterior in the bathtub scene. the inescapability of the body's rejection of life, like a force separate from herself, an invading spirit that rides the flesh demonlike. the image of that scene returns to me in this mood, and i crave a similar catharsis. a mortification of the flesh to mollify the mind. last night i crawled on the tile searching crablike and cramped for that tiny blue sliver of plastic. the ache in the patelas. even that was not enough. i want a physical mirror to this crashing and crushing feeling.

ineluctable: incapable of being avoided or overcome.

Date: 2001-09-24 12:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] booshtukka.livejournal.com
I'm still here. but you don't want me that way. i'm still here though.

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Date: 2001-09-24 12:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aslant.livejournal.com
i can't want what i can't receive. i can't want what i am unable to receive. and i can't ask for something i can't return.

what i said before holds true. if i hate myself i can't give or receive love. i don't believe it and eventually i resent the other person for not hating me. so i reject in order to gain that hate.

in this case, it didn't work so well. but no matter. i'm still incapable of honesty.

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Date: 2001-09-24 12:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] booshtukka.livejournal.com
that's fine. really. all i was saying is, you've failed in pushing me away. i can pretend to hate you, but i don't - so i won't.

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Date: 2001-09-24 01:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aslant.livejournal.com
it must mean something that i failed to push you away. that's #1342 on my list of things to figure out.

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Date: 2001-09-24 01:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] booshtukka.livejournal.com
me being stubborn, maybe. or your heart not being in it. it's nice though, to have people that are there for you whether you like it or not, no?

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Date: 2001-09-24 01:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aslant.livejournal.com
i don't know where my heart was in all of this.

it means a lot to me that you're still there, though.

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Date: 2001-09-24 01:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] booshtukka.livejournal.com
well, good. you can try and remove me. won't work.

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Date: 2001-09-24 01:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aslant.livejournal.com
i don't want to. that's the thing.



good night.

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Date: 2001-09-24 01:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] booshtukka.livejournal.com
well, then we both win. a draw.

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