Monthly Archives: February 2010

Selective Perception

By Keith | Published: Sunday, February 28, 2010
I was running late for work and only making it worse by choosing just then to stop on campus and deposit a check into my bank account. Normally, with a particular class routine, you know when you’ll be on campus and you eventually become accustomed to seeing the same people each day at the same [...]
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2:42pm, 23rd and Columbia

By Keith | Published: Friday, February 26, 2010
I was sitting on the bus, one stop away from mine on 23rd Avenue, wondering self-pityingly if maybe nobody actually wants me, but just wants someone like me. I had just come from Wallingford because I was picking up a book by a local poet for class (extremely late, mind you). It was rainy and [...]
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True Things

By Keith | Published: Friday, February 26, 2010
The truest thing you said to me was that I needed to love myself before I could love anyone else, though it wasn’t what I wanted to hear. The only compliment that you ever gave me (besides “You’re a good looking kid,” which I do not count as complimentary) was when you told me that [...]
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Things I Will Miss About My Apartment

By Keith | Published: Thursday, February 25, 2010
The sound of light rain on the skylight, lulling me to sleep. The way the early-setting sun’s light falls on me while playing guitar and singing pitchily in my bedroom on an afternoon just after daylight savings. The sound of passing planes through the air vent above the stove. The way it’s impossible to see [...]
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Attention Paid to Unnecessary Things

By Keith | Published: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
You were upset with me again. You were wearing that white hoodless sweatshirt with an image of a wolf on the front and, unintentionally, I had just gotten a young girl at the park to repeat out loud that “wolves are so last year.” I thought it was one of the funniest things I’d ever [...]
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The Way Things Go

By Keith | Published: Monday, February 22, 2010
My best friend in Seattle leaves today to join the Peace Corps and will be in Rwanda for the next twenty-seven months. I met Ryan on September 20, 2006, five days after I arrived in Seattle. We sat next to each other in the back of the room of our first class of the quarter, [...]
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