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8 Jan 2026 3 minute read 2 comments Nathan Payne
"All pretensions and presumptions are stripped away fromthe words, and what is left behind is a beautifullyblunt baring of the naked teeth, or soul."Going Soon In Aztlán With the exception of "The Sky Is Obviously Mad," I haven't written a song in...
8 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Thirty-Five 1. Do you remember driving by the river? 2. Do you ever get a shiver? 3. Do you recall the small recliner? 4. Do you remember who ordered the breakfast 5. Mixtape at the diner...
5 Jan 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
(Thanks for all the comments on my last article. I appreciated it more than I expected to, and will be leaving them open for the indefinite future. Feel free to say hello. Apparently, Publish0x has a daily limit on how much you can respond, so if you...
4 Jan 2026 2 minute read 10 comments Nathan Payne
"Maduro won the presidency, The problems beganAll evils fell on VenezuelaDon't be fooled by supposed progressBecause you will be skinny,They will gain weight"Prieto Gang I've been a fan of this group since I started booking The Poor Man's Nick Cave...
3 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Thirty-Three 1. Come out with your hands down. 2. Release the clown. 3. Pickup the cup. 4. Go into town with your hands 5. Up. 6. The clown runs deep. 7. Put your bitchiness to sleep. 8....
1 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Thirty-Two 1. I wash my hair in the laundrymart. I am the king of clothes. 2. I fold my subjects neatly. Television shirts are hanging by their dirtsleeves. 3. Honeybirds and bluebees; ma...
31 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Thirty-One 1. The vast, expansive landscape; the floor of a bloody, organic garage. 2. Candy wrapper skeletons; sugar bones melting in the heat. 3. Rattlesnake pomade; ocotillo hairbrush....
30 Dec 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Thirty 1. I can see your silence watching me. I can hear your blindness clearly. 2. The way you see it, I'm not homeless, I'm a free spirit. Which means: 3. You don't see it. 4. I've nev...
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....
