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You can’t spell “compassion” without “compass” because that’s what it is, that’s what it does. When you don’t know where to go next, head in the direction of compassion. It might fail you...

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Make love like you’re starving because you probably are. Like you’d die without that connection because you probably could. Like you’d drown without someone else to hold onto because you almost ...

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there will always be lazy people cruel people hateful people who will judge you for what you are not for who you are and those people will always be wrong those people ...

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The moon, above all else, is above all else. She hangs up there languid and waiting. People have been there but only for a little while only pushing the limits of what we can do as humans even...

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maybe I am damned to write another heartbroken poem after every senseless massacre that the American cult of the gun causes and then bullies us into never doing anything about this time i...

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You who chase bliss, I can understand you. You who chase power, I can reason with you at least sometimes. You who chase compassionate acts, I try to be with you, I try to be like you, I try t...

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a rolling stone slowly erodes losing itself to the road as it goes a rolling stone gathers no moss that is to say rather it gathers loss the stone slowly sheers off thin layers on itself le...

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I went to a K-Mart going-out-of-business sale to mourn a kind of America that has passed way maybe no less evil in its consumerism but certainly less invasive when at least the rich pe...

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If it ain’t broke, maybe it is actually broke and its trying to distract from its brokenness with folksy-ass words like “ain’t”. If it ain’t broke, maybe its just that its investments aren...

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maybe Icarus had to be rash enough to fly too close to the sun if he was going to be able to try and fly at all, you know? Icarus did die a free man after all, there’s something to that Icaru...

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we’re not so different myself and the dog with the tail that curls both we sniff around, maybe leave a mark both just wanna go out into the world maybe meet a girl maybe make some barks my mo...

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got-TA go FAST I MUST grab RINGS all NIGHT got-TA go FAST can-NOT hit SPIKES or DROWN got-TA go FAST there ARE egg-MEN to FIGHT got-TA go FAST ro-BOTS con-TROL the TOWN got-TA go FAST Se-...

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The idea that if we just sat down and made friends with Nazi Germany they’d’ve stopped is as ridiculous as staying that with the KKK. Or the Proud Boys or any other little boys of the Alt-Reich...

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the angry old man out of touch sitting on his laurels and millions made in a past before we understood the viewpoints of the oppressed yells “Political correctness is killing comedy!” or mayb...

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my heart as a ratty thrift-store jacket with a wad of hundos sewn into the lining if only you’d check my heart as a day-glo marshmallow cereal with one hell of a free prize inside if you ...

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imagine if reincarnation turns out to be real then we figured out a way to exactly determine who everyone was in all of their past lives and you’re held up to the achievement standards of th...

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twice doth the blade fall ‘pon your head once naming you “sir” twice leaving you dead once pulling you up twice cutting the thread once for a fanbase and twice to displace once t...

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the end is coming but you’ll just adjust to whatever horrors or wonders happen to come next you’ll be someone else then but you’ll survive, I guess might be trains or bombs may rain or thin...

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maybe I’ll just start dipping my balls in nutmeg come the beginning of September declare myself Pumpkin Spice stand in front of the Starbucks let the ladies in the Uggs swarm me til I can’...

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the fact that Alanis Morrisette did time on “You Can’t Do That On Television” and the fact that “You Oughta Know” was mostly written about her relationship with Dave Coulier from “Full House...

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if only we could let go of this spurious notion that anyone has any idea what the hell they’re doing we could make this life pretty nice together we think if someone has money, they mu...

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hope is a fundamentally liminal endeavor lust and greed and desire are all about wanting stuff that you can see coveting stuff you can touch but not hold grasping for stuff you can tast...

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Sometimes, the ego dissolves and you realize how arbitrary your youness is. How little difference there is between you and anyone else. How your consciousness is a drop in the ocean of mind lik...

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children running in the field like those little toy cars that smash into walls then bounce back in some randomized trajectory children running in the field like late-night moths their guidan...

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Don’t call it a “love/hate relationship” call it “Sweet ‘N’ Loathe”? Put a sign up in your restaurant: “Like our salads? Lettuce know!” Yell “GOING INTO THE MARINARA TRENCH!” every time you dip...

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