Luke Downes


arrested development

Posted 10 months ago

seen it?

1) yes?

a) loved it? i love you.

b) didn’t love it? grrr.

2) no?

a) see it. now. fine, fine satire. the finest.

a word: i don’t normally watch tv. it’s the advertisements coupled with the fact that tv comes off so…forced, usually. but “arrested development” (it’s actually on dvd, so i don’t really watch tv) counts itself among a few shows that i think are divine, li…

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glimpses

Posted 10 months ago

1. sometimes i say things i do mean, but still wish to take back.

2. poetry should not be a exhibition of the deep recesses of the poet’s soul, rather a quiet, hazily-lit window in.

3. my dog’s breath smells like dog food.

4. my tombstone shall read: “I did all I could.”

5. how love feels: “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhOc0V-ES40&feature=related”

6. we should all be so lucky…

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connection

Posted 10 months ago

My artistic side manifested itself very early in life, as is the case with you too. You know the kids: banging on tupperware and iron woks in the kitchen, coloring “masterpieces” on bathroom walls, that sort of thing. I once painted my whole face red with my mom’s lipstick because I’d decided to be a South American Indian.

Anyway, for me it started with reading and I read everything I could…

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randomies

Posted 11 months ago

“To a poet, nothing is useless.” – Samuel Johnson

“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.” – Oscar Wilde

“Work is the curse of the drinking class.” – Wilde (Brilliant man, really)

“Contrariwise, if it was so it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.” – Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking Glass)

“The more the marble wastes, the more t…

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