—ALL THAT YOU’VE LOVED IS ALL YOU OWN
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Monday, February 7, 2022
Friday, February 4, 2022
—GOT TOO MUCH BREAD, CAN’T STAND THE CRUST
The Moon and Me
On the back road that night
I was indecent yet also incandescent
the moon and me glowing cryptic
with our separate shame
A truck flew by then screeched
I should have run but
one heel was broken and
it was black out but for the moon
and those headlights circling back on me
It was the usual Fag Queer
Cocksucker Buttfucker Slut
sprayed like buckshot slick with spittle
The glare made them appear like Duchamp figures
staccato shadows bending gravity to their will
In brisk succession the punches landed until they didn’t
until the kicks came and the air left me
Hours later another truck another man
another inspection another judgement
They beat you for dressing up like that?
My entire body shook an answer loose
as I prepared for a final bludgeoning
Instead he lifted me off the ground
fit me into the passenger seat
On the drive he said My son, he dressed too.
It was more’n he could carry. So, so he’s gone now.
I had him drop me two blocks from the trailer lot
I looked him straight in the eye and let him see the whole of me
I said Thank you. I said Goodbye.
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Monday, January 31, 2022
—NOTHING TO DO BUT KEEP TEXTING MY THERAPIST
“Look, we both said some stuff we shouldn’t have. But we’ve also known each other all this time, and we can’t just give that up because of some stupid words, because we’re both stupid people.” Sex Education
“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.” Neil Gaiman
“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels for me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it also feel that way for you?” Kazuo Ishiguro
“Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with.” Billy Dee Williams, Mahogany
“Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.” Eugen Ionesco
“Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight.” Eminem
“My saints are a camera and a gun. They’re both fiercely truthful.” Sean McAvoy, Mahogany
“I feel perpetually suspended between celebration and grief.” Danielle Colin
“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” Rainer Maria Rilke
“I am a dirt person. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.” Eartha Kitt
“I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.”
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in suffering.” Friedrich Neitzsche
“Every great friendship starts with: ‘When I first saw you, I thought you were a bitch.’” R. Kaplan
“Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the fun.” Albert Camus
“For me, art is the experience of what you’ve felt inside.” Abbas Kiarostami
“I am writing a book about all the things I should be doing. It’s called an oughtobiography.” Jordana Isabel
“I like people too much or not at all.” Sylvia Plath
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” Charles Bukowski
“A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.” Curtis T. Jones
“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” Jean-Paul Sarte
“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” Lao Tzu
“When there is no hope, we must invent it.” Albert Camus
“I am, and I am not.” Rumi
Friday, January 28, 2022
—YOU TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH
…Hey, Friday, how did you get so damned sun-tanned?
…If you want your mind opened up, watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etIqln7vT4w
…Here some other things I like for the weekend:
“You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.” Frida Khalo
“And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet.” Allen Ginsberg
“You will have memories because of what we did back then, when we were new at this. Yes, we did many things then—all of them beautiful.” Sappho
“Let’s be alone together.” Leonard Cohen
“It’s totally normal, the way you can waste your life trying to fix your life.” Bianca Stone
“I am a garden of black and red agonies.” Sylvia Plath
“Soon I’ll find the right words, they’ll be very simple.” Jack Kerouac
“If you’re not allowed to say it, it’s probably true.” Peter Thiel
“Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.” Girl, Interrupted
"Oh, baby, never ever forget how magical life can be, or is about to be. Open your eyes, open your heart. Things are coming." Tennessee Williams
“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” Aldous Huxley
"I tell my kids, be careful who your heroes are." Rob Lowe
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.” Charlie Brown
"It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home." Lev Grossman
"I’m busy going brain laundry, separating my thoughts into lights and darks.” T. Jones
“In the end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not their poets.” Jonas Mekas
“Hamburger Helper only works if the hamburger is ready to accept that it needs help.” Keith Robert
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