lix

“We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.”

-Chuck Palahniuk

            New ritual: emptying the trash on a Sunday evening, right before I turn off my combination lamp/iPod player and dream about three days before. And as the Freeze-Pop wrappers and water bottles flood to the bottom of the bin outside my creaking dorm room, the insecurities and worries of the next week fall out as well, into the ghostwhite plastic garbage can and out of my tired thoughts.

            And then I can sleep