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5 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Never trust a writer whose work cannot be played on the piano."Pablo Keats-Kerouac Smog I don't remember the quote exactly, but Pablo Keats-Kerouac Smog once said something to the effect that you should never trust a writer who doesn't know that a t...
19 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
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...
13 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
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 * * ...
26 Nov 2024 12 minute read 0 comments Greenchic
Created in www.canva.com. Media image source Inspirations to Embark on Our Unexpected Journey in Life from 'The Hobbit' Story... I have learned in my life that each of us possesses unique strengths that equip us with the capabilities to cre...
23 Nov 2024 4 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat
Within a midnight storm, in which no star glimmers Or moon glows, as lightning flashes, and thunder Roars, a ghastly sight sloshes amidst a bog’s muck, The air, thick with the stench of decay and damp earth. Her hair is knotted, unctuous; her eyes,...
15 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
The spirit bomb has ruptured at theseam Life is not a dreamin lowerCalifornia The nightmare is a joyride And no sorrow is likeyours, myfriend; Silence is our tomb And we would have beenin love; We would have shaken itto pieces As only damaged soulsca...
11 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
It's television eve inTel Aviv You don't even have to ask usabout Damascus There's a new deli inNew Delhi, a newgirl inBerlin, andan old pair of dragonedqueens In NewOrleans, rippingwormholesin their jeans To the soundof Shostakovich,singing Likea [R...
5 Nov 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The war is in words and the wood is the world."Weldon Kees Weldon Kees was a poet who disappeared in San Francisco at the age of 41. His wife was an alcoholic, and had a psychotic break while watching the McCarthy hearings on TV. She was institu...
2 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
It was hot outside todaylike the insideoven oven All the grasson the moonis black; The beach is graylike a cigarettetray, The mountains madeof ash, andcracks Will formin the lunarclay; The ocean of snow will be revealed; I walked awayfrom the smokin...
18 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments PulitzerPen
Analogs all around me, because we are all equal, a chance is an opportunity usually if its seen in sequel, propriety means best in class, I think I passed, but I couldn't do math, now charts and graphs seem so in tact, everything in life is a sequenc...
