Louise O'Brien

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Joined: Feb 2007

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I guess I fit the mold of contemporary alienation. Mid 20’s fascination with ‘how the fu_k did I get here?’. Besides this most consuming of passions I’m really just your everyday office-opposing, gossip-disclosing, end of week, dancing freak.

I’m a social voyeur and when I’m not looking I’m generally dancing. I don’t like to be looked upon myself.

I come to work just so I can look forward to leaving. My weekdays are generally monotonous but sometimes punctuated by extremities: ups and downs, backs and forths, ins and outs, lefts and rights. I always eat my lunch before 11.30am but have a window view to feed me for the rest.

Weekends are the same but different. I go out looking for a drunken stupor and usually find it after a self administered concoction of liquid looseness.
One time another girl punched me.
Many times I’ve walked home bare foot.
Once I even cried.

I love Sundays. They’re gentle but firm. They wrap me up in the tethered threads of a worn out week. They float me down stream through the reeds
and the needs
and the tedious seeds
of another week yet to bloom.