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Nothing ends

by OrdinaryMadness

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March 14, 2019

On this day in history

I cant write about ordinary things anymore and I cant decide if its your fault or mine. The keys are dead and the pen is dry. I guess all people come apart eventually. leaving just empty bottles...


March 12, 2019

A Comment

Space and time are fibers in a blanket that is smothering. The craziest thing ever imagined by humans is that whatever life that possibly exists out there might actually not be wrapped up in the...


February 18, 2019

two years later

I set my mind on things and accomplished most of them I quit the hospital, started a brewery, built a taproom I grow a lot of what we use on my property I have 3 children now. two girls and a boy...


February 18, 2019

mainline

my eyes are circled in dark Bloodshot and far away but my vision could not be more perfect there is a vibration running through everything I am tuned in and ridding the wave this is the surest...


March 06, 2017

Under the piano again

Reese and I were sitting at the piano today She pounds on the keys I sing silly songs and She looks and Laughs Then she climbed underneath And said “dit down daddy” So I did something that I ...


August 23, 2016

As a man

There are very few certainties in life. Millions of unanswered questions, very few truths. But in my time here I have found a few. When you hear, see or feel one, it vibrates inside you. I could...


There is a slight westerly breeze tonight. Normally the wind calms at this time and there is a bit more heat. The moon is gone. Hidden behind clouds that dumped what little they had on Chicago no...


July 04, 2016

I know why

Early in the morning When the sun does rise, Looking to the horizon with bloodshot eyes. Late in the evening When the sun does fall That’s about the time I feel the call. I know why you need to...


February 04, 2016

Blind

I smell cast iron and blood Rusty blades and cigarettes The smoke throws me back Through the ashes and dust To a time with less meaning But more purpose. The white bulb swings Through the black...


January 29, 2016

1 year

give my regrets to my girl I haven’t seen her in more than a while. I hear you screaming, Just so you know It’s not that I Didn’t want To hold You. It’s just that, I have had something come pick...


December 01, 2015

New entry

It’s coming on That feeling I sometimes get The season was slow to change this time. Or maybe I was.


August 19, 2015

Home alone

I fell asleep inside And now I’m out of practice Where do I start And how will I finish? Ideas flash by None of them seem right In this moment. I remember little things Like how you used to writ...


June 11, 2015

instinct

I had given up on humanity until i met you. you couldn’t walk or talk or see very well. you couldn’t feed yourself or hold your head up. you dont even know What danger is, what fear is, what deat...


June 11, 2015

flowers

In the sun and in the rain and in the day and in the night pain is a flower pain is flowers blooming all the time.


June 06, 2015

the truth is

She put her arm on his shoulder And said I want to do right but not right now. She smiles like a flame lost in the sun Fix your eyes On the vein drawn With a knife that runs fast and hot over th...


March 30, 2015

keep your enemies

I have a ball of light it was given to me and it makes me feel better than I ever have before It is so bright that I see it even when Im not around it throws out the darkness Which worries me bec...


March 27, 2015

sign of spring

It warmed up a bit here the ice on The River started breaking up and moving toward Erie The flow dammed up At the bend in Side Cut Park Slabs the length and weight of cars stacked onto each othe...


December 16, 2014

Things to do:

Buy tickets to craft beer festival as xmas gift for myself Brew double ipa before the 30th of december so it can be entered in the Home Brew Nationals. Win that shit. Get a new passport for the ...


November 22, 2014

there is a time.

There is a time to stop reading. A time to stop trying to write. There is a time to kick the whole damned notion of art, out on its whore ass… ....But I am still here. leaning towards this machin...


September 03, 2014

nothing

I see now that there are innumerable ways to do nothing. Today, I pour myself into the eyes of flowers. Together we look and wonder what in the world are the stars all waiting for.


August 27, 2014

August

The air is thick here. My head lights cut through it. Feels like im running over dreams, but its too early to indulge thoughts like that. These are the things that come between the minutes, hours...


August 05, 2014

poison the water

Lake Erie is green now. We have pumped so many thousands of tons of fertilizer, herbicide, pesticides and sewage that the algae blooms can be seen from space... the toxins they produce can not ...


July 14, 2014

for you

Too stoned to cry: http://youtu.be/ozS50N8m-B0 Andrews Combs song


June 17, 2014

waterfall

Out back I play God. I choose what lives or dies, what weeps or grows. what waters or burns. I mostly use my powers for good. Like right now I am growing really good weed and building a w...


June 15, 2014

dont try

Turn off lights. Kill the music. hold your breath. Shut your eyes. And pile the words upon the eternal fire until they superheat and explode on their own volition.


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