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far gone now

21 May 2026 1 minute read 1 comment karoshi31

Being a nobody. Being reduced to nothingbefore the watching eyes, an unknown figurebehind glasses, that thin shield against sight.Otherwise blindfolded. Blindsided. The words are literal, deliberate.But I am far gone now,buried in rubbish, a ghosthop...

that's almost mercy.

19 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments karoshi31

And then when the chest filled with air gasped,the heart said more pollen,more weight, more wanting,more of what poisons slowly.So then I walked and walked,endless, gray, forsaken songs were grindingagainst the inside of my skull.But what was more; t...

An Electric Graveyard

13 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] The future is an electric graveyard;A narcotic junkie Nod The future is an electric graveyard;A neonsign fromGodThe future is an electric graveyard, arusty ironCloudThe future is an electric graveyard, solarpanel...

Blue Birds to the Contrary

10 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] When you're walking by faith so long that you forget that you believe, That's age. Or is it? The faithlessness of the world is incredibly persistent. It soldiers on in spite of all the butterflies  And blue birds...

We light our hearts like cigarettes

7 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"O Beauty! dost thou generatefrom Heaven or from Hell?"Charles Baudelaire   It's in our nature to idealize things. Even hell. It's in our nature to bring anger to a laugh fight, Fury to a funhouse, Tragedy in lights. We pause before the abyss To ki...

the strangers I wrote about

5 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments karoshi31

opaque clarity, the vanity seesa hull bloodless, graspingthe scene, whether recognizablethe strangers I wrote aboutthey are meimparted, forcedthe ideas, conventions extractedthey are mecomprehended, so a dimensionof intellectual and secluded reverie...

Laundromat Poem

4 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] The laundromat is like a diner; I want to wash mymilkshakehat In the vat of foaming hamburgers, Run my fingers through the French Fry suds, Find someone's missing malted  Sock Drying in the sink, Mop the checkerb...

Never enough

3 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments karoshi31

In this world, I have lost myself.The weight others carry, I made my obsessionthe selfishness, the hollow wallsThis life is cruel, and I am....rehearsing Photo by Vojtech Bruzek on UnsplashA liar rehearsing lines he did not write,obscuring the truth,...

Pillar of Moonlight

1 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Beltane?  Or is it, Sorry, Burn in Helltane? Looks like my kinda Party, but you can not have  Your lake of fire and eat it, Too. You have to choose. Put on your Shoes, God is leading the  Way. A pillar of moonlight shines before us. I can already h...

Radioactive Face Cancer

30 Apr 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] I may not have a clue I may not have the answer Another thing that I don't haveis radioactive face cancer  Uranium my cranium! My skeleton's gone fission! My spinal column has become quite solemn;I've been arrest...