TRIGGER WARNING: VIOLENCE

It comes from within and swells outward. It feels like fire, smoldering at times or raging, but, at any rate, still burning. And like fire, it carries with it the same need for fuel. It swells outward in your stomach lining, leaving embers or ashes. It swells outward in your chest, consuming your heart. It beats exponentially. It beats into your swelling muscles. The...

An imagination unconfined

And undisturbed by ceaseless time

Is something rare indeed to find

As we start to age

When someone offers up for trade

Youth and wonder for an 8 hour day

The mind can seem to be unmade

Replaced by obligation

I reflect back on the youthful me

And my current daily drudgeries

Until there’s something bitter in me

And I put the thought away

What on earth, is...

Oh to be one of the lucky ones whose mind can ignore the cacophony of everyday life among a species that seems to value sound to silence. You know the ones. The ones who look strangely at you when you tell them the air conditioning blower is driving you crazy. “Just ignore it” they say. Lucky ones indeed.

In my present setting there are three televisions airing different programs at the same vol...

There’s a overwhelming sense of helplessness when the mood sets in. When life becomes a little too much to bare but you’re unable to unburden yourself because the ceaselessness of time doesn’t leave room for rest. The show must go on. And it is a show. This is a role. You won’t win any awards for it, there is no applause, there is no ceremony to it all (although the word ‘ritual’ certainly feels f...

We bought a house

And that’s very cool

My parents house

Has a pool

This one doesn’t

And that’s just fine

Because this, well it’s mine!...

The man in the rain

Will devour your brain

And leave you as just a shell

He arrives on the scene

Every wet Halloween

From the dankest pit in hell

So keep track of the weather

And all stick together

And please stay out of the storm

So you can eat your candy

All fine and dandy

In your home, safe and warm...

“Another fucking day of this” Ronald thought as the facility alarm woke himself and the other unfortunate lab rats from their sleeping pods. “I just wanted some free god damn fries, maybe a burger or something, I didn’t think I’d win the million bucks, I just wanted to collect the damn pieces for some free food. God knows I’ve given this place enough of my money over the course of my life.”

Rona...