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2 Sep 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.09
Note: The article Desertion of the Circus Animals contains more of my thoughts on this topic, and Raptured From A Kerouac Dream reminds me not to focus on it to the point that I neglect my spirit. But it was fun to write this out, and perhaps it will...
1 Sep 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.08
My cat is an amateur archaeologist, and while working on an excavation project in his litter box, he unearthed a book of ancient scrolls. I dusted the cover of the ancient tome, upon which was embossed in clear, modern English, "Proverbs of Smog." In...
30 Aug 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.12
It isn't a question of killor be killed The world is a death bed Choose your hill Will you play on the platformof the subwayof rage, The tunnel of hatred? The erotic cage? Will you die on the hillof Mohammedanpride? Burning in hell For the privilege...
27 Aug 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.01
Metropolis of Birds Birds are hopping upthe spiral crazyStaircase of the pine trees,The skyscrapers That populate the mountainsideLike so much fuzzy gravel7.25.25
25 Aug 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.13
"There’s a blue eyed devil manThinks he’s king of the worldBut he cannot buy our soul"Lila Downs The most tiresome, obvious problem with people who like to pretend it's 2006, that dragging out the same, tired old presidential infant floats in diape...
24 Aug 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.18
"Never send to know for whom thebell tolls; it tolls for thee." John Donne The following is a statement issued by the UK Home Office, explaining why I wasn't welcome in the UK. Dated 15 May 2013. Full testimony linked below. COH ID #19619096 To: NAT...
23 Aug 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.12
19 years ago today (8/22), the Korean Broadcast System interviewed me in New York about dissent in America after 9/11. A quaint issue by today's standards. They even used my song "George Bush, What's Your Problem?" as the bumper music. These are the...
21 Aug 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02
The Van of Life I found a place much farther awayand more foreign thanMexico Much heavier No cops No narcos No soldiers Only clouds,Angels,Heavenly tears,Hellfire Tonight I will bathe in a mountain, Sleep balanced On top of a river I have driven Th...
21 Aug 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02
Waves Between My Bones Crawling on the floor of an alteredcastle,I knew that if I danced with youagain that I would die My blood made wavesbetween my bones I heard the beating of the ocean Splashing in my ribs My body rippled in the current; I went...
18 Aug 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.06
Experts say that excessive substance abuse doesn't actually shorten your lifespan, it simply shortens the length of your remaining years. Most people's years last for 365 days, but hardcore street junkies have been known to cycle through an entire y...
