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20 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02
What am I doing in Mexico? Right. Of course. I can't remember. What am I doing in Mexico? Leaving. What else? No matter where it is, you know it's time to gowhen people get to know you. It's a life of goodbyes, Of the endless Adios. "Pack light," t...
19 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02
I can tell it's Christmasby the inflatablesnowmensitting on the sidewalkin the sun Is that a homeless man,or Santa Claus? Did he just ask me for a cigarette? Isn't he worried that the sparkswill land on his coat,causing him todeflate? Does he disgust...
17 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02
I avoid all insulting manufactured propaganda events, so when Civil War came out earlier this year, I ignored it. But it made itself available tonight when I wasn't looking for it. So, in a moment of morbid curiosity, I watched it. It isn't garbag...
13 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02
I'm leaving on a violin trainto dance on the ceilingof a bottomless sky I'm dying to go fallingoff this raincloudlike a bird I will not hit the bottom I am a mist of sorrow Hanging by my neck On a skeleton of words * * ...
11 Dec 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02
"You and me are molded by thingsWell beyond our acknowledgment"Stereolab I had a friend in Austin who was the leader of a traditional Irish punk band. He said something once about backing him up in a bar fight and was offended when my response was...
8 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.01
I'm changing my opinion of my favorite song of mine from "Fabulous Dream" to "All I Want." "All I Want" is the most-true song I will ever write. Not a trace of poetry anywhere near it. It's more like a crime scene set to music. Remember the falle...
7 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.01
"I was in high cotton just a-bangin' on my six-stringA-kickin' at the trash can, walkin' skin and bone"John Prine If God hadn't intended us to write love songs, He wouldn't have shaped the heart like a guitar pick. Because the future is a concrete...
3 Dec 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.03
"I immediately notice that his education is poor before he speaksHe asks me for identification with an ugly expression"Apache & Canserbero I walked onto the set of Total Recall today, for the purposes of buying a new phone. It looked like a mall,...
1 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.03
This is not a call to arms. It's a call to arms and legs. We need slippers on the ground to finance the financing of American Migrant, a Rock & Roll road musical across Mexico starring myself and Denver Williams. Subscribe to me on Subscribestar f...
29 Nov 2024 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.01
To Emily X, Malcolm Y, and Theodore Z, There was rightness with the people at the other place. It's about $100 cheaper. Mexico City is at least 4x as expensive as the house I'm being overcharged to live in now. My neighbor knew I was leaving, and...
