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Ice, Your Only Rivers Run Cold

At the end of an Austin ice storm. Couped up at home all day, working through VPN, bored to tears. Streets were slick and icy earlier, but the stiff dry wind has made all the ice disappear. Now it’s just bitter cold. Couped up inside. I need some wind to evaporate the ice keeping me …

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Posted byShawnJanuary 16, 2018Posted inJournalTags: job, life, weather, winter

Burn Fuel

It’s almost 1AM and I’m more or less feeling my oats. I have to wake up in 5 hours. It’s not surprising that I turn to the liquid pleasures to make my life feel like it’s worth it. Really, though, it burns through my reserves of serotonin so the rest of my day is an …

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Posted byShawnMay 1, 2017Posted inJournalTags: booze, change, life

Emetic Diuretic

touching every nerve on repeat ad infinitum, ad nauseum, ad vertisium straw men on infinite scroll binge and purge, singe and durge the anger, the righteousness, the fearmongering the masturbation we can’t see it i can’t believe it constant waves crashing over my head taking on water, swallowing it all down not wanting to drown …

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Posted byShawnApril 29, 2017Posted inPoetryTags: change, life, politics, social

Uphill

My life has always been a constant struggle to reconcile that I want desperately to communicate through high art and find my own space on this earth with the finest people on it, versus the mandate that I must wake up at 6:30am and perform the artless needful in order to sponsor my dreams. I …

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Posted byShawnJanuary 17, 2017Posted inJournal, PhilosophyTags: art, life, music, work

Paddle

I hate Facebook as much as I hate many aspects of and activities in my life. The first step would be liberating myself from Facebook, but I still need it. You know, just in case I miss something. It’s the same reason why I keep going to the same coffee shop every goddamn day (sometimes …

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Posted byShawnNovember 30, 2016Posted inJournal, PhilosophyTags: bored, habits, life

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