2018 is a year I would sooner forget. It’s had more downs than ups. I’ve seen the birth of my first novel in a finished edited form, yet lost a decent job and my family. I’ve become sick of myself, my struggles with mental health and my most recent (and last) heartbreak. Therefore, gentle readers, […]
Awaken with a hollow thud, echoes of jagged china peices now rattling around in a fat broken urn that looks like me. Hug the pillow, since it’s all that’s left. Facebook and Instagram show the best version of a moment in time, but if you could only glimpse beneath? The picture looks different. Pillow’s wet […]
Can we, you ask. Call me self-destructive, with an almost pathological need to buck propriety. But I’d still like to defy those pesky Gods In this fucking dimension. Cause this love hurts, yes. Just not as much as those years wandering in the Desert of Heartbreak Without you. No one but you, ever understood me […]
My Brother, the Handsome One. He who lays rotting in the ground these past 13 years. He had the truth of it. The bitter truth that now, as he damn well prophesied when liquored up and popular on pay-day, has eventually come to pass… His last words to me, upon this cursed Earth, while he […]
Someone had to open their mouth Someone had to display courage Someone had to care enough Not to let anything die That had a fighting chance to live Someone had to roll up their sleeves Grit what remains of their dogged teeth In a world weary skull Flex their lean muscled forearms And engage in […]
for what we do. There is only what we do. Redemption is a bullshit human concept Like time… Like money… When you die, stand defiant and proud, naked in purgatory And raise your dead voice aloft To whomever is listening And proclaim: I did what I fucking did! There are no excuses, motherfucker! Shove your […]
is a smoke filled glass room, if you even have a room at all…
In more ways than one…
A woman has a unique way of leaving her marks in a man, long after all outward traces of her have been removed.
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