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no sane reason
Do not blame people for being mad that the police are killing people for no sane reason. Be mad that the police are killing people for no sane reason. Anger is a rational reaction ...
the point
there’ll be adamant balladry piercing old formations of what it was to be gallant that’s no longer guarding what was once was avant when the revolutions coagulate when the clouds of ...
wouldn't it be nice
You are not perfect, I’m sure of it, but you’re probably perfect for someone. You’ll be perfect because of your strengths not despite your weaknesses even though you’ll always have weakness...
arbitrary day
It was Talk Like A Pirate Day a few days ago which was, of course, was desperately annoying a lot of people took the thing too farrrrr look around, you know who you arrr do pirates have Talk ...
how your thirties will go
carbon-based though we are we still seem pretty squishy standing at the start of our prime still we are just water and carbon we can be shaped into diamond with just enough pressure and tim...
camel through a needle's eye
there are those who would be driven cruel crazy and weird by the assurances of bedrock faith picture us agnostics as dry drunks in the face of comforting madness if I was sure of anything I ...
temp track
tempus fugit tempest fugitives we’re all on the run from the oncoming storm that’s the passage of time in the fudging of our memories in the temples of the mind tempus fugit tempest f...
science fiction triple feature
the beauty of science fiction is you’re writing about things that probably haven’t happened that maybe can never happened but at least haven’t happened yet so your metaphors can t...
absence
lightbulb in the empty house next door flickers like someone is saying hello but “like” does not always make it so my heart says yes but my head says no whether it is fa...
profanity
Profanity just means dealing with the profane dealing with the possible divine dealing with holy. Don’t let ‘em tell you you don’t have the right to wrestle with profanity to st...
the calling
If you do it to get rich, you’ll go broke. If you do it to get famous, you’ll go mad in the process. If you do it because it’s all that you’re good at, you will have a fighting chance. ...
upside
The upside to scary things is you get the opportunity to overcome ‘em. Your differences aren’t curses, they’re gifts to make you realize everyone’s different, to fill you with compassion and ...
science-fiction double feature
The one major difference between science-fiction and religion is if the person who wrote it all down believed that it actually happened if they believe that the story they’re ...
overshare
When I was a child, I was told I “over-shared” my emotions. It was unhealthy to spill all my secrets for anyone who would listen my hopes my fears my fondest missions “Just because you think ...
worry
worry is just regret while it’s still in the chrysalis waiting for its terrible wings to finally burst through shred the cocoon and emerge fully empowered to ruin you worry is tensing up in a ...
rock and roll
In case you’ve been living under a rock technology has advanced we can now live under a roof. In case you’ve been living under a rock if a rolling stone gathers no moss there’s no way someone...
tables
Occasional tables. Periodic tables. Erratic tables. Elusive tables. Unreliable tables. Absent tables. Deadbeat tables. Tables. Water tables, earth tables, sky tables, fire tables, ...
want
Dress for the job you want. Job for the dress you want. Want for the dress you job. Want for the want you want. Want. Want. Want. Continue to want. Your want will set you free. Your wa...
godzilla '98
the first Godzilla was pretty simple, man he was the atom bomb and he destroyed Japan the second Godzilla, pretty much the same except now Angurius could share in the blame the third G...
words on words
Everything you’ve ever read some weirdo just like you just wrote those words down once it isn’t something magical just because it exists on paper it isn’t necessarily true just bec...
other from another other
Find your other-ness and hang onto it for dear life. That sense of feeling somehow abnormal, it can keep you humane. That sense of feeling halfway there to madness, it can keep you sane. Liste...
an illusion
Time is an illusion but the entropy that creates the illusion is not. Sadly, understanding time’s falsity does not prevent entropy. The illusory nature of time does not ameliorate its side effec...
I Dream Of Televised Supernatural Wives
Major Tony Nelson, man I can sort of understand your disinterest in Jeannie’s reality-bending magic ability you are already incredibly cool you’re a motherfucking astronaut but an...
handle with care
Most of my short-form writing starts off clashing thrashing crashing and smashing cast like a madman’s frothing manifesto but closes like a hopeful if repetitious love letter like a hopef...
linger
Your dreams will eventually be forgotten. Your nightmares will eventually be forgotten. You get to choose, though, which will linger. The gods will not know you by your final draft, rather...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
