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Proverbs of Smog #42

9 Feb 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Forty-Two 1. You know the vibes are harsh 2. When the sound of parking lot 3. Yelling in the 4. People chills you 5. Out. 6. I will leave the country to get away from your TV. 7. I've don...

Proverbs of Smog #40

1 Feb 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Forty 1. The spectrum is a zoo. 2. All spectrums are the matrix. 3. To be on it is to be in it. 4. People trap and capture their own hearts in the wild to be 5. Free, break their own  6....

Internet Shutdown – Day 4

1 Feb 2026 2 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr

  My heart couldn’t bear it. I sent several messages—and then I learned the words that stopped my breath: “My sister had been shot”   That night, when I finally reached home, my calls to my sister met only the same cold, mechanical voice:   “The subs...

Internet Shutdown – Day 3

30 Jan 2026 3 minute read 6 comments Melina Mehr

I can't believe it! We haven't had internet for three long days now! I'm going crazy. We can't even text each other. Phones, laptops, electronic devices seem so useless at this point... Damn it!... Let me at least share the rest of my story here... t...

🎶WHY IS TIME🎵

20 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments TheAiCollectiveArt

WHY IS TIME Poem Why is time?but like the ocean by the sea?As We open our eyes,You see love? On a Mother's heart,Or by a Father's hug,You Grow to be apart. Why? Running through the bushes blinded,On a small flower,By my touch of the trees? You fill m...

All I Want

19 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.”Proverbs 25:20   If "gospel" means "good news," what is gospel music, when the devil turns your joy into a death trip? Someti...

Proverbs of Smog #37

13 Jan 2026 1 minute read 2 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Thirty-Seven 1. Leopard print sunset; kittens in the Cool Whip. 2. Depart from me, ye pie rats! 3. Is this a motel, or a hungry Bible 4. Whale? 5. Sunlight has ripped the roof off. 6. The...

Sain't

10 Jan 2026 8 minute read 1 comment Nathan Payne

"As the ICE agent in question attempts to walk around the SUV, apparently to assist his colleague in removing the poet from her vehicle, you can see that her tires are aimed screen right."Breitbart   An angry lesbian is dead, an ICE agent is under fi...

Hypothetical Memories of Protests | Days of Naïveté | Part 1

4 Jan 2026 2 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr

  As nationwide protests in Iran enter yet another intense chapter, I felt the need, in the midst of all this, to look back at the years gone by—to remember the protests from decades past and the quiet, trembling memories I carry from my university d...

Proverbs of Smog #33

3 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Thirty-Three 1. Come out with your hands down. 2. Release the clown. 3. Pickup the cup. 4. Go into town with your hands  5. Up. 6. The clown runs deep. 7. Put your bitchiness to sleep. 8....