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Proverbs of Smog #18

24 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog  Chapter Eighteen 1. Who are the streets? 2. Where did I put my iron candy bar? 3. What blasphemous spraypaint theology has led us to faith in the neverending party fire? 4. Books of bleeding con...

A New Fountainhead

22 Oct 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain."The Fountainhead   I was at a library with a friend recently, and happened upon a book of poetry by Federico García Lorca.  I opened the book, and was immediat...

Proverbs of Smog #17

21 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Seventeen 1. Resist the temptation to join the candy batteries dissolving on the automated tongues of power. 2. Zombies of reason; the disembodied brains of children. 3. Imagination is th...

Proverbs of Smog #16

17 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog  Chapter Sixteen  1. Don't worry about falling behind. It's the only way to get ahead. 2. If we're lucky, there will be a Buc-ee's in Kentucky. 3. The Six Flags of truckstops; road warrior Valhal...

Proverbs of Smog #15

16 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Fifteen 1. Every cornfield a novel; every jungle a dictionary; every garden a poem. 2. Words are flowers, cornstalks, trees. It isn't necessary to bludgeon them with plows to make them gr...

Proverbs of Smog #14

10 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Fourteen  1. If you need to get out, no locked door, high wall, or series of hostile armed checkpoints will be able keep you in. 2. To put your trust in riches is to live on the steps of...

Proverbs of Smog #13

7 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Thirteen 1. Hell in a handbasket; Heaven in a pair of motorcycle boots. 2. Never pack or unpack anything you aren't prepared to multiply a thousandfold. 3. Moving on from Motel El Dorado,...

Proverbs of Smog #12

5 Oct 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Twelve 1. Be the invisible sorrow you want to see in the world. 2. What's the protocol for visiting the sodafall? Who will unsupply my weeping pills? 3. Waterfalls of traffic; the diamond...

Proverbs of Smog #11

2 Oct 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Eleven 1. Beware anyone who can't tell the difference between poetry and witchcraft. 2. The poetry of death appears alive, the poetry of life does not appear. 3. An aversion to art is not...

Proverbs of Smog #10

30 Sep 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog  Chapter Ten 1. Beware the avalanche in the convenience store, the magazine rack on top of a mountain. 2. Merry-go-rounds of thought; graveyards of activity. 3. If your money leaves you, leave it...