11:32 p.m. - 09.12.03 - so i miss you and i call you and i forget your not there

i still remember 9/11 like it was just this morning where jay comes around the corner near my locker and tells me the world trade center just went down when i think he's talking about washington still with the pentagon but i didn't know the twin towers were called world trade center. i learned that day. it wasn't easy to forget. and every anniversary for now on, i'm going to miss my brother dearly ... he left again on 9.11. out to sea to iraq or wherever the fuck they've sent him. i hate those people on the plane for fucking with my life. for playing with my mind and taking my brother away from his home. perhaps josh wouldn't be in much of a different situation anyway, but atleast he wouldn't be in iraq. i almost cried again like i did on anniversary #1 with hillary, but i sucked it in for my brother. because he has to suck so much in right now. he must be so angry too. he has all this bad news for his family every week its new. but he can't TELL us anything. he cant say WHERE he can't say WHEN he can't say WHY he can't say WHAT or anything. he can say we're going out to sea. we won't even know with the news because CNN lies to manipulate the iraqies... because they watch the tv too and they try to figure out where all the ships are too and if they lie then nobody will know. and the navy even lies to the sailors so the sailors won't accidentaly slip and tell their mothers. or email people... or something. whatever it may be.

so i didn't want to forget the anniversary of the attempted murder of america. the time when we all fell but supported each other and kept each other alive. we fought back and mostly what we did was right but there was no plus for me. in fifty years, it's all going to be about the money. in fifty years, this wouldn't have been worth it. but in fifty years, it's already been done and written about in the history books. because in history, nothing is forgotten, and we repeat even when our teachers tell us that we always repeat history and to learn from history. because america is stupid enough to go after the money. and so do i, because i'm used to the american ways. i took the job with more money this summer. but now i work more and it makes me happy. i come home with sore knees and millions of knots in my back and a belly full of clams but it makes me happy. i work so hard and am always cheering people up and can gossip about the horrible waitress and the weird customers and freak out when we lose money or when orders turn out wrong. its all fun and usually never worth the time and effort. but because we can; we can own restaurants and serve people and make people as happy as they can possibly be and behind all that, its still all about the money. i always see the money people leave on their tables, and the money they don't. i think its rude when they don't because its MY time they're taking... even though they've just spent 4 times as much money on their meal than we did. well. i won't get into the tactics.

i know i'm overworking myself. i always do. but i forget life easier that way. i dont like remembering everything so awful in my life. so mixed up. i have just enough time to love and cherish eveyrthing, and finish my homework and love my family and appreciate my friends. i can get down to the dirt now with little time. theres no questioning what's right.

i love it. god bless josh, i miss him so much.

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