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the moral event horizon
don’t think of yourself as a “good person” think of yourself as a person trying to be good if you believe you’re good you’ll probably get lazy possibly lose perspective or even worse yet be...
on grounds of insanity (part 1)
Sentences that make total sense as a barista but sound dirty anywhere else: “My apologies, I need to grind in front of your face for a minute or two.” Sentences that make total sense as a b...
rolling for initiative
my mother was a healer who should’ve been a leader my father was a blacksmith who should’ve been a bard had an ex who went to Sage but then she turned the page I’m just a jack-off of all tr...
schmends
there are friends and then there are schmends people who you only know from the social media you may know this person friend-of-friend lists but you have never actually met in person that y...
"when are you gonna re-open"
instead of asking other people to build an arts scene for you build it and do all the maintenance so you can enjoy the fruits of labour get out there and stick your neck out go out there an...
a rose by any other
if you can memorize the new players on your sports teams people you’ll never meet, every year, you totally have the brainpower to remember not to deadname the people you actually know ...
the money shot
there’s less money in telling people “don’t listen to anyone as your guru not even me, you gotta find your own path inside of you, by your own math” than “I know everything and if you j...
coast to coast
In Hollywood, they die young and pretty. They die old and ugly in New York City. All the rest, both in-betweens and more’s the pity. All us rest are in-between and more’s the pity. New York ...
white light
you are a white light and this life is a prism no, it isn’t a prison this life is a prism a prism temporarily exposing the spectra of all the many things you can be, could be all of the thi...
if you meet the buddha on the road
if you meet the Buddha on the road take all of his stuff and tell him “I’m just helping you shed your attachments” if you meet the Buddha on the road kill him with kindness complimen...
radical acceptance
we gotta let go of the past but it can’t be for anyone else’s sake we can’t make that choice for them we have let go of the past for our own continuing health our very own s...
falling from above
the mandala that intricate sand paintings they make in the far east taking day taking weeks that they destroy upon completion so as to remind us how everything beautiful ends to remind us ho...
there will be oil
the next big gold mine is selling inessential oils useless oils you buy and display just to prove you have the money to waste on these meaningless oils I don’t even know what the...
wheel of misfortune
Is it weird I suspect Pat & Vanna detest each other so fuckity much either would give up all of their fortune and fame to no longer have to look at the other ever again for the rest ...
crazy
those great “crazy geniuses” did their best most valued and well-remembered work during extended periods of lucidity and/or recovery the works of “madness” were generally crap either ...
always
listen there were always gay folk there were always trans folk just now they’re coming forward react with love and understanding and not...
crossroads
no guitar or crossroad is required if you want to sell off your soul you just need a three-piece suit you just need a heart like a hole the devil no longer waits at the city’s edges li...
students alone
rebellion’s hard to get done when they’ve got us all pressed down check-to-check and deep in debt and on the run forever let’s be real the crushing student and medical debt heaped on mil...
completion
I’ll be whole when I’m dead which sounds depressing but actually its goddamn joyous as long as I am imperfect flawed and uncompleted I can grow and learn I can evolve and change ...
reclamation
reclaim the movies you loved before they got tangled up in memories of bitter exes reclaim the songs that sang your soul but you had to cast aside because you heard them at a jo...
victorias
saying that you’re good at keeping secrets is a good way to get people asking you your secrets which is a very very bad way to keep your secrets you of course have your secret truths and yo...
born in a
really I am surprised a store with as unflattering a name as DRESS BARN survived THIS long got THIS far, lived out its life only went under in mid-2019 can you imagine naming a store ...
hell
Hell isn’t other people. Hell is seeing other people only as vehicles for or roadblocks against your personal enjoyment. Hell is being so hidebound to your own damn self you’...
a three hours' ride from woodstock
once-purple prose turned to poetics in the violet haze just as once-flowered hairs gave their way to a distinguished touch of gray in the half-century that occurred side-wise we sighed then too...
mid-life
“will I still be myself when I become a butterfly” the caterpillar asked the mother sky above “or will I be dead and a butterfly just takes my place?” as he entered into his existential chrysa...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
