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29 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Twenty-Nine 1. Find the time that time forgot. 2. Remember who you're not. 3. Life is but a happy scream. 4. A casserole of plastic rice and flower cream, soda beans and sunbeams. 5. Wake...
25 Dec 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Twenty-Eight 1. It's quite the spectacle we've constructed around ourselves. The least we can do is not show up. 2. Thank God we get to spend another Christmas driving through the desert....
24 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Don't go to hell with the good people,steeples of the mind They say we're all the same,but in fact they think they're better than you; They talk down to you by nature Their virtue is a weapon They do not need to...
22 Dec 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
When I tried to live with my dad the summer after my Freshman year of high school, my stepmother chased me around the house, screaming insults and verbal abuse like a demon. She only did it when my dad wasn't around. She was a master of gaslighting....
16 Dec 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I rewatched Stand By Me recently for the first time in decades, and was shocked at the language in it. It struck me as gratuitous and excessive, not quite right for a so-called "coming of age" story set in 1950s America. We didn't even talk like th...
13 Dec 2025 5 minute read 1 comment Nathan Payne
My 2nd wife rescued Louie's mom while we were living behind the women's recovery house of a homeless outreach ministry of questionable authenticity in Oceano, California in 2008. We were living in an old trailer, a relic from the atomic age with a c...
12 Dec 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Twenty-Seven 1. The road is a long, black cloud upon which crows of freedom roam. 2. Crow milk cures humorless legalism, stains your teeth with rainbows. 3. Southern highways are all hi...
5 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Twenty-Six 1. Beware the homeless preacher blowing from the holy bubble beneath a halo of high, unsightly lions. 2. Take off your stylish sense of scorn; discard your sunglasses of thorns...
1 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Twenty-Five 1. The wind is howling like a child. The dramatic, petulant gale. 2. If you catch an automated singer, nevermind the bus. Throw him under the poem. 3. The punch is spiked with...
24 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Twenty-Four 1. A rolling moose gathers no stones. 2. The demon meme is never what it seems. 3. Innocence hurts. Dirt kills the pain. 4. Don't kill the pain. Suicide is wrong. 5. The Raptu...
