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Category Archives: Snippets
Mouse
I want to be the mousethat crawls into your car in a rainstorm,eats the crumbs you left behind,shits on your floorboards and nibbles your cushions,chews the wiring of your instrument paneland burrows into your engine block to die,curl up into … Continue reading
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Tagged car, engine, mouse, mouse got in, mouse in car, mouse poop, poem, poetry, wires, wiring
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Staring at the End (Prose)
Mostly my frame of reference is at the edge of some yawning precipice, open throat of the Earth, and any spell of vertigo might send me tumbling off into the depths. There is a constant gravity in the off-kilter pull. … Continue reading
Posted in All posts, Fiction/Creative, Snippets
Tagged apocalypse, creative writing, end, end of the world, entropy, juggernaut, prose, prose writing, staring at the end, the end, universe, writing
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Staring at the End
Mostly my frame of reference is at the edge of some yawning precipice, open throat of the Earth, and any spell of vertigo might send me tumbling off into the depths. A spinning tunnel, haunted house; constant feel of the … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, creative writing, end, end of the world, entropy, juggernaut, poem, poetry, staring at the end, the end, universe
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Boulders
Tawmbout belief, gratitude, visualization. Buzzwords that I’ve typically spent a lot of time avoiding! Two days ago, while walking up to the Happies with Alex and Mae, I said in conversation how I’d like to focus on being a … Continue reading
Posted in All posts, Self-Improvement, Snippets
Tagged bishop, bouldering, boulders, climber, climbing, dream, dreaming, dreams, grateful, gratitude, happies, hulk, visualization
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kaleidoscopes
the feelings that move in me like slow kaleidoscopes or the impressions of perfection that pierce my chest and make me melt like taffy, a bug tumbling in thick amber or a child who’s jumped into a pool shift all … Continue reading
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Tagged creative, creative writing, kaleidoscope, kaleidoscopes, love, poetry, revelations, writing
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Do I Dare Dream Again?
Do I dare start to dream again? Is it time to put all these woes and all these trivialities behind me? Do I once again sweep away all of the presumed things of importance to open up that space, crepuscular … Continue reading
Geometry of Dreams
The things that I’ve dreamt about before are no longer relevant, no longer show up in my dreams—all the myriad places and happenings and locations portrayed in shimmering detail, my brain building tiny simulations geographic and geometric in its quest … Continue reading
Alienation of the Self
As I get older, I find myself regarding my body with disbelief and incredulity. It seems that every time I see myself in the mirror I get further and further away from the mental image of myself that I hold … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, alienation, belief, child, children, identity, man, manhood, old, self, self-alienation
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Sandcastles/Spinning my wheels
If only they could see that none of these things scratch the surface, that all of the things I’ve done and all of the stories that I tell about myself are just hollow excuses, and they don’t really mean anything … Continue reading
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Tagged creative writing, fiction, impermanence, loss, sand, sandcastles, truth
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Time is on my Side
Time is on my side. The buds of spring appear before my very eyes; the leaves spread open in the sun for me to watch. They say the moment rests upon a razor’s edge, the past behind, the future gone— … Continue reading
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Tagged creative writing, perspective, poem, poetry, season, seasons, spring, time, time is on my side, writing
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The Immersion of Memory
It’s dumping down outside, mazes of pockmarked rainwater running everywhere on the ground. My life is made up of memories—this shirt I got from a different place, reminding me of this person—every piece of clothing on my body is linked … Continue reading
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Tagged action, creative writing, experience, gestalt, immersion, immersion of memory, memory, navigating, personality, poem, poetry, rain, time, water
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Falling
Falling in love is like autumn. Small, perceptible changes begin to take place—veins of color slowly changing shade—and one at a time the leaves begin to fall. The feeling, the anticipation of the event comes first; in crisp individual moments … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, change, fall, fall in love, falling, falling in love, love, season, seasons, spring, summer
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The Stone Within My Self
When I hold you, like a looking glass I bring your ghost to life. I condense your spirit into something tangible; it sparkles in the sun in my eye. When I hold you close I make you real, and take … Continue reading
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Tagged attention, body, body poems, cash tornado, condensing, empty, focus, hollow, love, meaning, poem, sadness
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Words from a Friend
Life that life man. Be your self man. Do those things man. Don’t be scared man. Climb those rocks man. Read those books man. Get that girl man. Write those words man. Do your best man. Try it all man. … Continue reading
HARD MODE++
I’ve often dreamed of the “hard levels.” Unlocked after beating the game, they are so difficult that they are a lifelong endeavor to complete. Bordering on impossible, they provide a precise balance of frustration and reward, obstacle and progression, pushing ever onward at the … Continue reading
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Tagged dreams, expansion, games, growth, reality, tron, videogames, virtual, virtual reality
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Recognition, Recollection
I work downtown in a relatively small area. I see hundreds of faces on any given day. I live in the same town I went to college in, and there are old faces everywhere: anyone I recognize could be someone … Continue reading
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Tagged details, history, identity, old man, past, recognition, recollection, story
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My Love like the Sun
My love like the sun shines from within, chemical compounds reacting, rebounding; the warmth spreads outwards and touches all of those who choose to venture out of doors. To love like a taser, cables spitting snakelike outwards, electric pitons piercing two … Continue reading
Fever Dream
Wake up from this fever dream, and set the caged bird free. I thought I had a dream to live— But it was someone else’s dream!
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Tagged awake, dream, dreaming, fever dream, maybe someday this will grow, sleep, up, wake, whoa
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Mountain Eyes
Let the boy go forth, and when he returns you will see the rolling plains and the green hills, the immensity of the mountains, the vast ocean reflected back in his hazel eyes and the wind in his tousled hair. … Continue reading
Balance
Balance has been occupying my thoughts recently, both the physical act of balancing and balance as a metaphor. Balance is stability, awareness, and controlled movement during chaos. We think “Oh, how I should love to live a balanced life.” Eat … Continue reading
Posted in All posts, Mindfulness, Snippets
Tagged annoyance, balance, equilibrium, mindfulness
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Imaginary Distance
Distance isn’t what it used to be. When I was in grade school, living in Alameda, we went on a field trip. It couldn’t have been more than a half-hour drive. One of the chaperones told us that in the … Continue reading
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Skeletons
Sometimes when I get too caught up with the weighty beauty of the physical world, becoming breathless, enamored, enraptured, I envision everyone around me as an animated skeleton. I strip away all their flesh and picture a gangly lattice of … Continue reading
The Mantra
Every minute of every day I will make the choices which are right for me, and I will not fear the consequences, for I know they are a reflection of my truest self.
Psychic Powers
I want, above all, to have psychic powers. As a matter of fact, I’m convinced that I do, or that I’m on the verge of having them. Think about it: mind control, reading people’s thoughts. Psychics, like Jean Grey from … Continue reading
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Tagged powers, psychic, psychic powers, real mother fuckin life, x-men
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Balm
Sometimes it seems like the best things are just a balm, which soothes the ever-burning question: “What now?”
Words I Like
God is a silently beaming benefactor.
Consider:
The things that other people say about you when you’re not around is actually Very Important Knowledge and it would greatly benefit your life, if only you could think about it long & hard enough to figure it out.
Lower Ocean
Our irate neighbor knocked on the door, and I answered. He was furious, coming to complain about the noise we made last night during a weekday party. The kids downstairs from us had slammed the door in his face. I … Continue reading
the coziest universe
They make the universe look so comfortable in all the science shows; clouds of dust and gas rumple up like celestial drier sheets while awesome music plays in the background. They present a cosmos that you cannot help but want … Continue reading
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Tagged alive, blanket, comfortable, into the wormhole, morgan freeman, universe
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Everybody will do their best to convince you that they’re not a fucking idiot. But don’t worry. They are.
The Conductor
I’d love to be a train conductor. All the years of training, working long hours at the station, and collecting ticket stubs would be worth it when, on the first night’s route, I would roll through my hometown and blow … Continue reading
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