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Proverbs of Smog #28

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....

Nathan Payne 2 minute read 25 Dec 2025 0 comments $0.06

Don't Go To Hell With The Good People

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...

Nathan Payne 1 minute read 24 Dec 2025 0 comments $0.06

The Sky Is Obviously Mad

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....

Nathan Payne 4 minute read 22 Dec 2025 0 comments $0.06

Being Nick Reiner

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...

Nathan Payne 2 minute read 16 Dec 2025 0 comments $0.03

Saving Louie The Road Cat

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...

Nathan Payne 5 minute read 13 Dec 2025 1 comment $0.11

Proverbs of Smog #27

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...

Nathan Payne 2 minute read 12 Dec 2025 0 comments $0.07

Proverbs of Smog #26

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...

Nathan Payne 1 minute read 5 Dec 2025 0 comments $0.11

Proverbs of Smog #25

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...

Nathan Payne 1 minute read 1 Dec 2025 0 comments $0.09

Proverbs of Smog #24

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...

Nathan Payne 1 minute read 24 Nov 2025 0 comments $0.05

I am a Verb, You are a Noun

"But how free can we really be,with a mandatory sense of false security,sailing the seas of hideous idiocy?"Pablo Smog   Chasing the snail involves cruising below the speed limit on a street lined with golden trees, because who wants to leave this pl...

Nathan Payne 1 minute read 23 Nov 2025 0 comments $0.12