Random Awesomeness

here i sit intentionally blurring my vision killing time between fleeting joy and random crisis no plan will suffice no action would make any difference this is simply the way it is this is the world no one but myself to blame or credit for my experience how things should be could've been or will [...]

“…the truth is nobody cares about the truth nobody cares outrage is far more profitable it’s an end in itself and lies often generate an entire news cycle like ebola at burning man and fake karens everywhere. this is the way it is because it’s cool and disturbing at the same time …” the attention [...]

shrinking tribes of intention within ever-widening borders thick with fear sing to each other in desperation unimpressed and dying of boredom clamoring crowds of grievance coalescing in the void metastasize into wondering angry mobs of brutality and self-inflicted disease amoeba-like armies of chaos fighting over scraps of broken promises thrown off at random by the [...]

an inconvenient dichotomy two objects in motion are either moving towards or away from each other at any given moment worlds collide entanglement quantum or otherwise is always temporary the mind races the heart searches all that is known in flux the myth of stability the hero’s quest for balance feels false falling only on [...]

time stops for no one from buried stone to floating feather get in line we fall together the creative mind rebels when all is subjective from every perspective we choose to decline to decline see the panacea be the continuum the phenomenon of seasonal change changes depending upon where you are what was once becomes [...]

languishing in late summer’s backyard surrounded by the intimate drama of family rented time recedes into obscurity the ridiculous wants and needs of stuff the clarion call of youth fades out and about they speed-walk past children on shoulders earbuds guarding the mind from this moment from this space these people despite random “likes” with [...]

helpless a rush of sensory deprivation long-forgotten dreams disarmingly soft cushioning the darkness mocking security broken a brutal flash of internal light the proverbial fawn impactful yet curiously ephemeral random fulmination chaos the shock of uncertain reality fear crying to the world inevitable uselessness a kind of faux balance as normality is lost lost forever [...]

bird poop on my shirt sleeve finds a finger up my nose bunnies in the clover munching grass between my toes the neighbors all are mowing mowing everything that grows my sweetheart smiles and walks away she knows she always knows the doorbell phone is dinging we can guess what happens next i let it [...]

a world that’s never been framed by long-passed glory it’s man made stones hauled unceremoniously from a thousand miles downstream crumble now before freedom’s green green grass of time where are the mothers who cooked and cleaned and fed those men stacking their fire-baked bodies upon the slab what has become of all that toil [...]

the earth is burning in our backyard we sit among the flowers legally buzzed drinking cola and soaking the raspberries yesterday’s drama is but a hazy sad memory ragtag remnants of war without end a foolish neighbor breaks the moment bringing us back the elusive bumblebee and gentle sounds of tumbling water echoes my love’s [...]