reposted from "exceptindreams"
NOOOOOOOOO I didn't find this on my own. I just saw it in the community and it touched me. I implore you to visit that livejournal...they have some cool stuff. "Reasons to Live" Alison Luterman for Arlene Sagan The guy with the beautiful waist-length Byronic hair stands braced in black fish-nets, silver tutu, and high heels, playing his violin without a trace of irony at the entrance of 24th and Mission where I’m elbowing through the suits and prostitutes to get on the 5:13 to Richmond. Ruby music spills like the blood I’ve been carrying in test-tubes all day, sweet as raisins and almonds at a gypsy wedding. That, too, is a reason to live, even when the long tunnel feels endless, and the months stretch out between real kisses. All of us commuters read so we don’t have to feel tons of dark water, pressing down on us, and the steel-lace bridge arcing impossible miles above, carrying a million cars, a million tiny drivers like a battalion of sperm aimed at the ovum of evenin...