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All you do is complain — "All you do is complain. The government this, the schools that. And then what ? Where do we go from there? We stay here in our miserable lives because you hate everything too much to change yourself?" My goldfish was having none of it. It swam back and forth in it's bowl as if it hadn't heard a single word I'd said. I sighed. It was time to go to work.
💬 5 likes · Nov 05 · 6 weeks ago
Screaming — I scream and I scream and I scream. Heads turn, but people avoid making eye contact. Help does not come, not in this world. You are alone with your suffering. If you help, you know what to expect: you get sucked in to someone else's head, someone else's scream, until their suffering becomes your suffering and in turn all you have left is your own screams in the night. So people don't help, instead they judge. Judging is safer, you do it from a distance, you preserve your...
💬 3 likes · Nov 04 · 6 weeks ago
Church — 1920-06-08 forgive me father - i have sinned confess me your sins i witnessed acts of terrible violence go on and derived profound pleasure as I bore witness what was it you witnessed death destruction calamity ruin and your witness to these transgressions has brought you pleasure profound unholy pleasure where here there everywhere - i beheld ruin and was filled with a terrible joy i am unsure i can help you i...
💬 1 like · Oct 01 · 3 months ago
Hunger — In the house I wait at the table with my pen using paper bait How can you write it in black and white, how you feel just by sitting still Pen has expired Paper will sit in awe Wild typewriter feeds When will you be here and bring my anxious soul to rest with some food my dear crawfish, shrimp and fish hunan chicken and fried rice please fill up that dish lo mein rice noodles egg roll spring roll cheese puff treat cholesterol rich sadness fills my mind sadness fills my mind
💬 1 like · Aug 26 · 4 months ago
Death to the Martians — The sky was, it felt, permanently orange. Whether that was down to the street lights of a city that spread for thousands of miles, or the quasi in-interupted fires that raged outside said city, I didn't know. In any case I was out of here. After years and years of patient bribes, and a small fortune spent, I'd finally secured a place on a shuttle for the Mars settlements. Still a mining planet, it also harboured independent, self managed settlements. Life wasn't easy...
💬 4 likes · Aug 23 · 4 months ago