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12 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I turned the pages of the streetfrom 99 & Broadwayto the narrow path downtown I walked the length of the entirebookin an hour and ahalf I scrubbed the blood off the doorpostswith a dishrag soaked inwine I drove a symbol through an open field I did...
9 May 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I can't remember the wordsto my ownstory The unauthorized autobiography The cautionary fairytale The boots that never fit The mansion in the driveway If you think you're not a writer you arewrite or maybewriting,maybe Wrong Not to say that you are...
10 Feb 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"We were searching for a place of refuge for our love,but instead, the road led us to the land of the dead."The Color of Pomegranates The Color of Pomegranates is a Soviet-Armenian art film made by Sergei Parajanov in 1969. It tells the story of t...
10 Jul 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I've got a flower up mysleeve,hidden like a facecard It is blooming up into my hands; Pink and yellow petals assume the fragrant formof a crude, offensivegesture And a grin of unrepentant malicespreads like a soft, rude flower,orthe bird across my fa...
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...
24 Jul 2024 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Beware the average man, the average womanbeware their love, their love is averageseeks average... But there is genius in their hatred"Charles Bukowski I've met at least 100 master chess players in my life who are forced by circumstance to play Tid...
7 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She bought a guitar. And lived in it, Too. Originally intended as a tool shed, this 2-story guitar (the power lines in the lower left corner are life size) may very well end up becoming my home. In my dr...
24 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"A moving painting, but with sound.That idea stuck in my head."David Lynch Three invisible paintings, but with sound, composed in honor of the life and work of David Lynch. Thank you for many decades of mystery and inspiration. You will be missed...
25 Jul 2024 3 minute read 0 comments espacioreal
Not everyone is empowered to think. Because thinking requires a series of prerequisites that were present in Man because they were valuable in the social environment that was his lot. The individual and society configure each other; it is not a verti...
30 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I wish I was freeof that slaving meat wheeland safe in heaven dead."Jack Kerouac I was riding in the backseat of a car, playing guitar. There were 4 of us, but nobody was talking. Everyone was listening to the music that I played. There were no w...
