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2020-9-20
i hate mirrors:
they remind me
that i exist.
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2020-9-17
my tragedy
compared to
other tragedies(
yours is
not less nor....
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2020-9-16
there’s a tenderness
i miss
more than i can say
for i have never
felt....
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2020-9-11
if only
there were a reason
for all the sadness,
pain and suffering,
a reason that made....
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2020-9-9
people claim
the world is complicated
and the problems we face
are hard.
that’s a lie....
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2020-9-7
how easily i break:
a word,
a thought,
another failure added
to a long lifetime of failures....
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2020-9-3
who i am
is not
who i want
to be.
the problem is....
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2020-9-2
by the millions
they come and go,
these humans
who try so desperately
to prove they are....
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2020-9-1
the emptiness of this world
is where it waits,
the silence that allows me
to get up and walk
away from the noise....
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2020-8-29
being human
and being happy
are clearly
two different things.
we could be happy....
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2020-8-28
humans aren’t satisfied
with “propagating the species”
as a reason for existence,
so we make up stories
about god and higher purpose....
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2020-8-26
the bullies,
when i was young,
were girls & boys
who needed
to let me know....
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2020-8-25
i don’t expect
to wake each morning
(any morning)
with a happy smile
on my face....
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2020-8-24
i think,
therefore,
i am.
how fair
is that?
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2020-8-22
if i were to admit regret
about the choices i made
years ago in my youth;
if i were to wish
i had had the courage....
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2020-8-21
i am happy to live
in a world without god.
don’t get me wrong.
i would like to live forever,
and i sure as hell....
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2020-8-19
it would be awesome
to blame it all
on you.
in fact,
i think it would be....
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2020-8-18
with each passing day
i’m grateful for
each passing day
that i am still here.
one day will pass....
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2020-8-17
tens of millions of dancing sperm
surround the Egg of the Month,
each demanding to be the future.
EotM tolerates the rabble for a time,
and then: You. You’ll do....
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2020-8-15
hope is not my friend.
i understand very well
the ways and nature
of that ugly fucker, fear.
that bastard lets me know....
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2020-8-14
that’s the way that
the world goes round,
sang Prine, and he was
mostly right.
but sometimes....
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