February 2012
21 posts
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I Read This Out Aloud For You
“So what the hell is all this? I don’t know. I don’t know what I’ll write let alone what people will like when I wake up each morning. I do not know what Jon, the photographer of I Wrote This For You, will send me. I believe this is why I still enjoy it.
Perhaps, in some sense, it is the witnessing of someone else’s life. A way to let someone know that someone does in...
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The Relative Phenomena
I would do my taxes. Fill out insurance forms.
Count grains of rice in a bag.
Whatever made time pass the slowest with you.
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The Standard Operating Procedures
No matter how hard you try, you will never be stranger than what the world considers normal.
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The Things We Are Supposed To Be
Just so you know, I don’t. And I refuse to care.
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The Strangest Voice
You’ll forgive me but I’m professionally curious. I’m paid to be interesting. I’m indebted to mystery.
And perhaps you have thought that because I use simple words, I am an idiot savant who does not understand bigger ones, but I’ve experienced such limerance from a simple dulcet daliance with complexity that I’ve come to believe that such things almost always...
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The Grinning Fool
Each night, somewhere out there, people go to bed, petrified that I might be happy as I am.
And I wake up each day and make their worst fears come true.
PS.
I hope you’re happy.
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The Violent Peace
You kill death every day that you live.
And I do my best to murder hate whenever I have the chance to love.
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The Day You Shot Me In The Back Of The Head
The sun rose like it does on any other day, on the day you shot me in the back of the head.
I’d just made coffee and you’d come back from doing the groceries and I asked if you wanted some without turning my head to look at you, on the day you shot me in the back of the head.
And I hit the floor so slowly and so hard and without any real warning, on the day you shot me in the...
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The Stuff And The Things
If you like a whole bunch of things and I like a whole bunch of things, maybe one of the things that we both like, can be each other.
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The Shot Stars
If your star falls down, you will find mine lying beside yours.
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I Wrote This For You. On Tour
I will be available for speaking/readings in the following places on the following dates.
Johannesburg, South Africa.
27-29 February
Cape Town, South Africa.
2-4 March
SXSW/Austin, USA.
9-12 March
New York, USA.
14-23 March
Now, I’ve spoken to my tour manager, who is me and he’s indicated that because everything’s been finalised...
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The Things I Meant
A heart was meant to beat. And air was meant to be breathed, close to your ear. And your skin was meant to remember what mine felt like. And some songs were meant to play on repeat. And the sun was meant to come down. And we were meant to ignore it when it woke up. And days were meant to pass. And nights were meant to follow. And your eyes were meant to cry out whatever pain was left.
And I...
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The Longest Shadow
You know what I would do for love. But no one ever asked me how far I would go, for loss.
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The Billions Of Pieces
The human heart is made from the only substance in the universe that can become stronger, after it’s been broken.
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The Similarities Didn't Make Us The Same
You spend your whole life learning what you shouldn’t care about. Until one day you find out you didn’t care enough.
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The Defect At The Heart Factory
There is no heart you can have that another heart will not have a problem with.
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The Sun Will Freeze Before I Do
I promised a lot.
But never that I wouldn’t get back up after you knocked me down.
Never that my broken remains wouldn’t catch fire.
Never that I wouldn’t burn through the ice and snow one more time.
And you can slam your glaciers into to me, so slowly, and even though they hurt, I will not go numb from the cold, I will not pass out from the pain, I will look up...
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The Tide Goes Out Like The Air In Your Lungs
And now?
Star the night.
I’ll night the stars.
And now?
Breathe my breath.
I’ll breath your breathing.
And now?
Speak under the water.
I’ll water this speaking.
And now?
Until you are still.
I will always be still.
Until.
And now.
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The Light From Frozen Graves
“But I just want to stop feeling.”
“As far as I can tell, there’s only one way to stop feeling and that’s to die.”
“That seems a bit drastic.”
“It is drastic. Perhaps the most drastic thing there is. There are other ways to kill feelings, like drinking a lot or working hard, constantly, pushing those around you as far away as possible...
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The Storm Before The Calm
You’re still here but I am still the sea. And as peaceful as I seem, please don’t ever turn your back on me.
The Things I Have Felt Have Torn Me Apart
Those who walk away from you in the dark should be forgotten in the light.
January 2012
21 posts
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The Phantom Limbs
And when we speak now, seldom as that is, the old language returns. I wonder if it makes old names make guest appearances in your mind. If you can feel the skin of my neck near yours one more time. Do you reach across the bed for a shape, no longer there. Do you remember it clearly or is it all just memories of memories. Is there still warmth from my fingers tracing the contours of your skin,...
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The Expanding Distance Between Two Points
Making you regret what you did to me is not ‘me winning’.
It’s everyone still losing.
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Every single person who's ever enjoyed I Wrote... →
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The Universe Will Take You
They might not like you at school.
And they might not like you at work.
And they might not like you in a park.
And they might not like you on the moon.
And they might not like you in summer.
When you say they remind you of winter.
But this universe, will always love you.
This universe, will take you.
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The Missing Bread Crumbs
Stop telling me to follow my heart. It once led me to you.
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New Entries
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The Morning Bell
“Did you see them? With all their feelings hanging out? With their emotions exposed?”
“I know, what a freak.”
“What are you doing tonight?”
“Crying myself to sleep, wondering why I never truly feel loved. You?”
“Same.”
Kindness From Strangers
You have until the 9th of February to enter the competition and win a signed copy of I Wrote This For You, I’ve pasted some of the entries we’ve already got below.
All you have to do is create something new or interesting with the text below OR print it out and photograph it in an interesting space, then email it to me at pleasefindthis at gmail dot com.
“I wrote a book for...
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The Final Exam
a) Rain is the sound of the night rolling over in its sleep.
b) Rain is a record of broken promises and each one is sent back to earth to clean it.
c) Rain is life by a 1000 cuts.
d) Rain is a coronary anesthetic.
e) Rain is the world secretly crying for you, when no one else will.
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The Start Of The World Wide War
Please know that they shot first, when they tried to outlaw our entire culture and our way of being, when they threw us off our land.
Please understand that our only weapons were our eyes and our collective voices and when they marched on us, when they raised their clubs in rude salutes to the sun, we held up our camera phones and said over and over and over again:
The whole world is...
The Awkwardness Of Me
You make me say stupid things.
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The Correct And Proper Way To Feel
“Is this how I’m supposed to feel now?”
“I don’t know, I’ll check the manual.”
“And?”
“It says that you’re feeling the right way.”
“What way is that?”
“It says that there is no right way to feel but, right now, after something like this happens, you do need to feel however you’re feeling and...
The [CENSORED BY SOPA/PIPA]
We live on the cusp of a new era of enlightenment in the history of our species.
SOPA and PIPA, two bills currently under consideration in the US, threaten that era.
If these bills had existed when I first started writing I Wrote This For You, many people would have been too afraid to share it with each other and it would never have enjoyed the measure of success and popularity it...
The Language Of Stars
Love:
To discover there’s at least one other real person on planet Earth.
Loss:
To discover that the aliens, can look just like you.
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The Snow Falls On Forever (Hush)
You can’t miss forever.
No matter how close forever feels right now.
You can’t hurt forever.
Even if your heart whispers in your ear and tries to convince you otherwise.
You can’t bleed forever.
Sooner or later, you will either die or live.
Neither of us can do anything for forever.
Because forever passed away, long ago.
The Hate Feeds The Hate
You say there is an ‘us’ and a ‘them’ and we must fight.
I say there is only an us. And we must love.
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Dear tumblr,
So many people have asked us over the years to get on here and I’m incredibly glad we’ve finally made the leap. Tumblr is where I Wrote This For You was really first discovered - one post on here, years ago, took our page views from 100’s, to 1000’s (and now 100 000’s).
I just wanted to say thank you for the warm welcome.
You are amazing, have...
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The War Against The Sea
You say that only a fool believes that everyone has some good in their heart.
You say that only a fool makes music in their mind.
You say that only a fool loves hate back.
You say that only a fool leans against the wind.
You say that only a fool takes on a planet.
You say that only a fool holds out hope.
You say that only a fool tries to fly.
You say that only a fool fights the sea.
Very...
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The Loneliest Personal Ad
Introvert seeks someone you can’t trust. Apply without.
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The State Of The Artist
You, as an artist, have the greatest responsibility of all.
You are charged with trying to make people feel, in a world that tells them not to.
You are tasked with speaking soft words, painting, playing, filming, writing moments of such magnitude and beauty that people rediscover their hearts one more (last) time.
You are here to give meaning to the few decades we spend here.
That is the...
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The Fractals Of Time Passing
Today you became a yesterday, when once you were a tomorrow.