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A Broken Tombstone

1 hour ago 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] When I die I want a broken tombstone,Marble, rottenwhite,With the patina and consistencyof moonlight.***When I die I want a brokentombstone,A guardian angel of glowing neonboneleaning like a petrified ghostOn the...

The Weeping Anarchist

24 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] The anarchist is weeping.The toy store issleeping;There is a madman full of dirtytreats,Wandering the trees,Pondering thestreetsIn search of the existenceOf actually Nothing. The anarchist is weeping.There is a...

A screeching tire shouts for joy

24 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Rough trip. Also amazing. Too far and fast to count. I need fingers, singers, Stars. The ride is violently humbling And morally horrific.  Faced with the self, the self freaks out and does donuts in the parking l...

The Shamrock in Motel 6

21 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] The Shamrock in Motel 6 has been a sanctuary for mefor manyyears,But it's under newownership,and isn't a Shamrockanymore.I'm not saying I'll neverreturn,but I never wanted to be hereanyway.I'm grateful that we ar...

The Second Scorpion by Will Jones

15 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Will Jones

  ☸️☸️  All newborns may start off as small as a kernel of wheat or rye. Another Karma, another flight of insight from chrysalis of intellect that mind's eye.   ☸️☸️   On island of fantasy swayLike Tattoo, and that planeThat is scorpion two.. It emb...

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...

Call Northside 777

11 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] The last scene of Call Northside 777is a vision of the arrival of a tired man to Heaven.His mother is there to greet him,his wife,And when the kid shouts, "That's my daddy!"before running to meet him,well... Hav...

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...

What Lies Beyond Death?

6 May 2026 1 minute read 1 comment rah

I am not a poet and for sure I know it. However, it is never a crime to rhyme So it is time for me to give it a go even if the quality of my prose is low. Sorry, I couldn't resist that, but it is a statement of truth and today I am going to endeavo...