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if I must fail I will fail not through lies or through playing the games rather I’ll fail through aiming too high if either way we’ll all eventually die I’d rather go the Icarus Route...

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you think it’s funny now when we watch an old sitcom and all the mistimings and misunderstandings would be fixed in a second if the characters all had cell phones? holy cats how stupid will ou...

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we thought it wet cement the firmament when we bent down to it with stubby fingers etched our fates and names but we realized the ground beneath us was actuall...

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feeling bad doesn’t help anything move forward feeling bad doesn’t accomplish anything feeling bad spends more energy than trying again would it’s like that old myth about eating hard-boiled eggs...

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two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood until I decided to clone myself and we totally high-fived and at the end of walking both th...

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diphenhydramine little blue beans fifty milligrams a scene diphenhydramine diphenhydramine small azure jewels sleep-causing tools one might be enough for a person like you or at the most two bu...

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when you get away from the constant criticism the relentless pressing sense of judgement the negativity the crushing force of being treated like a failure for a little while it is like coming up ...

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I forgot what it was like to have a reason to wake up before two in the afternoon but I am starting to remember I forgot what it was like to have a motivating force other than g...

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You gotta make your peace before you go to pieces. If not for them then your own damn sake. You cannot infinitely indefinitely carry that weight. Something will break. And you are somethi...

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this is my inside voice this IS my inside voice! this is all I have this is what The Great Magnet gave me this is what I have to work with this IS my inside voice oh God, you should ...

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you can’t convince me that we’re actually flying no not anymore we’re just in a tube we’re just on the floor we teleported from L.A. to Chicago four hours ago and they’re running paintings of cl...

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hey there hipster lady can’t you at least date me ironically? you could tell your friends I’m so bad that I’m good when we go into your gentrified hood to drink Hi-C Ecto Cooler and e...

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Spill coffee on your wallet. Spread your whole life out to dry. Consider all the ways you do and do not count. Bleach your paltry money in the sun. Read the tea leaves of your past in photograp...

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like me subscribe me follow me share me favorite me retweet me justify me fulfill me appreciate me acknowledge me sanctify me resurrect me worship me possess me sacrifice me damn me bury ...

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find something you love and let it kill you not immediately of course preferably on lay-away stretch the thing out slow keep up the fight for sixty or seventy years but know eventually it will wi...

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I am no longer so afraid of flight not for most of the process not anymore not like I was when I first flew when I saw Spain and Italy as a boy when I almost ripped the arms off the chairs ...

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the major difference between a church service and a comic book convention seems to be that at least congoers admit to reality again come Monday morning I am not Superman not Wolverine an...

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Look up into the sky tonight and pick a star. Any star. Look up in the sky and focus on that distant point. That is what our sun looks like to someone out there circling that light. We are th...

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if my plane should go down mourn me as were you my widow even though we never even kissed if the pilot faints from drink think of me as were were lovers even though I never even had the co...

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there's a poem that I wanted to do but I'm having trouble with my smart phone and so I'm stalling for time I'm stalling for time by saying these words I'm stalling for time because every ...

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Writing is not the Dionysian endeavour so many desire it to be. Okay? Drunken. Instant. Born of epiphany, spontaneously, parthenogenically. Dionysus of wine and rebirth and revels may be fine f...

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they tell you do not they tell you don't they tell you do not do not don't do not do not do not don't do not do not do not don't and they keep telling you do not do not don't do not do ...

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names have been changed to protect the innocent names have been changed to protect the dubious concept of innocence names have been changed to protect myself from my proclivity toward insolence...

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we are all leaves falling from a tree when we are born our lives are not the times when we were green when we were safely attached to some nourishing branch our lives begin the mom...

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I'll never be pure enough to join the good-good guys I'll never be confident enough to join the bad I've never been comfortable on either side of any line in-between is all I've ever had ...

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