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the good news is the longer we go without destroying ourselves the more time we have to figure out how to love each other all the good news is while the deck may well be stacked ag...

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being too sure of things it hardens you up inside it leaves you ossified hanging onto the assumed and yet also unverified it makes you old it wears you out so the fou...

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There’s nothing more toxic to the progress of a civil society than the idea we can just opt-out of it hiding behind weapons faith or loopholes that we can take the benefits we received from...

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admission I want success but am terrified of all the downsides I’ve seen come attached to success the same way I feel about madness I guess. admission I wan...

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listening and listing listening and lessening listening and glistening listening and lost listening and loosening listening let’s give this story a happy ending because we can’t guarantee...

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dorothy was terrified of tornadoes as a child ran as fast as she could to hide outside inside anywhere away from the chaos of the sky now dorothy is middle-aged she inherited the mortgage ...

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maybe our lives are just the universe’s dreams maddening mangled short and shuffled and ours are taken as a reflection of that perspective these lives that sometimes seem so very l...

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It’s not that I want to punch the PERFORMERS in the balls. It’s just that I want to punch the costumes where the character’s balls would be. I’m not a monster. I just wanna wail on Donald Duck...

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bildungsroman Gotterdammerung ex machina is a God of sons Ragnarok and roll and revelation hajj crusade jihad pilgrimage addiction to external validation schadenfreude und s’il vou...

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the demons disrepair and despair have taken up their dispensation their determined divisions of our divinity our maybe-souls but brother we’re still buffeted by our lion’s shares of poetry...

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Every time I see a Christmas commercial for a luxury car, I ask myself if Western Civilization was actually worth it at all. Diamond ads, even if you weren’t a scam that murders, wouldn’t t...

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We teach each other lessons in what it is to be ourselves and be alive. Any meaning to life beyond that is largely moot. To allow the universe to better understand itself? To please some hair...

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frosty the snowman was on the run from death, this much was clear the subtext was his desperation to cram all the experiences of a life into, no pun intended, his one day in the sun trying to ...

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first they’ll come for the Muslims but your ass won’t care you’re not Muslim you’ll even fool yourself into believing that this actually makes you safer somehow asshole then they’ll co...

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husk label on the outside with your name your history your credit card number your diplomas family tree whatever all that’s still there all your signifiers sound as the pound the whole worl...

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This is no clash of civilizations. This is a collection of armed theocracies TRYING to create one for power and profit. Humanity can be better. Conflict begets & reinforces power s...

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judgment is not concern confrontation is not assistance negative criticism is not encouragement but love is love the difference between identity and ego where to hang on...

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explaining to a friend that I went to see him play guitar instead of performing at an open mic some distance away I realized the best compliment that I can give someone is “I’d rather he...

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I’ve never tried uppers because I know I’d spend a few months the happiest I’ve ever been I’d finish a few novels all at once I would be getting thinner and productive and reaching my potentia...

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The gig economy’s the last nail in the idea of being fellow citizens, everyone becomes simply a potential servant to a rich man. In the gig economy, we are all serfs again. In the gig economy...

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we express our love through our worry for each other in my family it’s better than money or food as expression I’m guessin’ but anxiety doesn’t add it multplies and drive...

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streets named after people long forgotten along with their deeds the only remaining memory being the city streets themselves maybe property is theft maybe memory’s a stra...

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this is not a pipe, this is not a picture of a pipe this is a sentence I’m forming that happens to contain the word “pipe” this is not a pipe, this is not a painting of a pipe this...

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every job leaves a scar on you somewhere inside or out a broken toe from a film set that still aches in the cold reflexive “I can help you with that” from old terrible phone wor...

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the dog and I go on these little adventures together sometimes he’ll bark at a phantom sometimes he’ll sniff at some leaves sometimes he’ll piss on every tire that he sees little usually com...

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