Jake Speak - Musings

Sitting in a cubicle all day, squinting at letters a feet away, my eyes ache to focus on things that are a horizon away. To leave, be not he...

Many women go past, I gape. Many words go past, I gape. Many worlds go past, I gape. Gaping, I do well. postscript: thanks to a friend, in c...

The infinite,  multiplying possibilities of childhood,  being chased forever, by the whittling years, are dead men  now. Their ghosts howeve...

If a cup of tea is no one's cup of tea, Is it then A cup of tea ?

Its one in the morning. I roll down the window of my car. The cold wind helps keep the drowsiness at bay. Apart from a lack of sleep, it re...

My nose runs, Wish it really would. I am warm all over, Fighting off a warm sopor. A Cold is anything but. My muse, she's a fickle thing...

I sit in silence. Its afternoon and I have just had lunch. On a full stomach, I am experiencing that part of the day when the real around me...

10pm - News. The kid that fell into a borewell two days ago is dead. They finally got to him. 11.45pm - Calvin draws his death ray blaster o...

"How does it feel to be twenty six?", asked a friend. "No different", I said. Though I suppose it finally is sinking in...

Sit, drink your coffee here; your work can wait awhile. You're twenty-six, and still have some of life ahead. No need for wit; just talk...

Reasonable faith and blind faith. Applying qualifiers to a word that already implies belief regardless of anything else. But this raises an ...

stay - poise ! a knife edge insanity yawns below enligtenment behind. a light breeze blows.

i drown and i choke! noises, smells, colours and smoke life, chaos and crime, coughing and sputtering, i look out on some weird god's pa...

what good ? what evil ? what absolutes ? black and white are for the books and the movies I read and I watch and shake such fancies away lif...

There are things that for no apparent reason, get indelibly etched in your mind. The factoid ( if it is indeed a one ) seems to achieve no a...

i am warned to stay away from the deep and the dark corners of my mind. somebody was there and did not like what they did find. lol.

Loneliness. I wake up to a silent day. Coffee and the newspaper. Somebody dead, a thousand dead, somebody won and somebody murdered. Not a f...

I came across this post on a friends blog, with a link to this comic . I hope I have something better to put up for my tenth.

head thrown back running i drank in the light running like i should never have been able the ground opened up the trees moved one with the g...

who or what and where was i why and how and when did i get to be into this strange looking glass alice - dear lass thought she had it bad i...

fend ! the barbs the insults the backstabbing the nonchalance the unending stupidity what am i fending for ? fending exhausts leaves me no t...

Its a saturday morning and I look out the window. It frames an explosion of fresh green leaves and a wet earth. The air is cool and the smel...

musings, born out of a monkey mind that refuses to be still jumping and grabbing on to every passing thought following it around chattering ...

Exhaling, I lean back. Nothing fills my head, a white noise really, a blend of many babbling thoughts. The noise soon fades and my mind floa...

Life trundles along the gray plateaus of the daily, avoiding the dark and sunken valleys of despair and missing the tall shimmering hillocks...

The day wears on and I am witness to a brilliant sunset. Red fills the universe of my sight interspersed with a flaming orange. An orange at...

"Are you making any resolutions for the new year ?" "Yeah, I'm resolving to wing it and see what happens." "So ...

A common foot soldier I am and I wield the pen. I was not always a soldier. I was once a common man, looking in from outside. Looking in ont...

completely wasted, i was riding the edge while it lasted top down and head up, the night roared by as my foot wouldnt let up. my car screame...