Do you ever have those days where you feel like you’re losing your mind? You lost the thing again and you’re pretty sure it ran off with your sanity. Maybe it’s under the bed with the monsters. It’s all in your head, what head? It ran off with the thing, and oh no watch out! The monsters are grabbing for your foot, better hide under … Continue reading Sanity not found

I don’t like sleep, and sleep doesn’t like me. So instead of my head finding a pillow at night, it meets an inky indigo haze in the clouds and jaded parades around my suburban streets. I find alabaster in midnight astronomy. My freedom is gifted by darkness, wrapped in moonshine, the small hours giving green lights. Insomnia takes me under its feathered wing, but it … Continue reading One lux

When do we let our façades fall away? Do we take them off at the end of the day? Or do we keep them on until they fuse? Become something we can no longer lose? Do we let them become one with skin and bone, something a part of us, no longer just shown? Do we keep them on ‘till the day we die? So … Continue reading The faces we hide

Salted wind slaps my face and venomous spit swirls on my tongue, all velvet and biting. I swallow wine. I think about my liver pickling. I hope that when I die I’m diced up into cubes and grinded by fossilized ocean creatures, because why does it matter anyhow? Spotlights searching for blackness in the void is, and of us. Humanity’s struggle. As I look over … Continue reading Call it to the mountain molehill, for we are all dead in the long run

As I sit here having a table full of crap thrown at me, I think of how this vacation went wrong. How I probably shouldn’t have called the chef an ugly prank. But it happens, right? And it was most likely unappreciated when I dropped my neighbor’s cat off the balcony, but the thing was just staring at me too much. Or how we trip … Continue reading An atrocious issue