when you love your enemies you're open season to the enemies of love fight for a better world here and now hope for a better world after death love doesn't always win but it often dies trying
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poetry about brains
success is just being better at your brain than your brain is at you your brain is not a muscle in that things that strain your mental health generally don't make you stronger they just weaken you the way a concussion does so that the next hit doesn't have to be so...
the supernatural
<<<my self>>> is the only protection i have against the experience of the supernatural (sewer-pernatural?) God, Satan, and all the rest they have little in common except for their hatred of me psychosis is often a polite and urbane way of saying one...
more poetry – i can’t halucinate encouragers
science is on the axis of inquiry religion is on the axis of love when they stay in their places they leave enough room for each other to breathe church! stop telling people God is love (as if it were a reflexive relation) because then when they stop seeing love...
Letter to Mother Nature by Wayne Bowerman where do i begin? never felt like we were friends and then religion taught me to hate you: “look at those pagans beneath the constellations demonic stations, only jesus saves you she’s just a bitch with an ironclad grip,...
poetry (I’m late, April was National Poetry Month)
there's often a story behind old cloths the people who reject you for the old cloths wouldn't be interested in the story people who were coddled and people who were spanked and thrown around will just talk past each other most of the time I will make a poor showing in...
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hope is that space in the middle between conjecture and wishful thinking and when times get lean that space becomes the fat that burns away forcing you to choose between the two (vocation) when you have multiple disabilities you just have to be twice as good for half...
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pointing to Jesus in defense of Christianity is like pointing to the product packaging in defense of a product's quality when you admit you're suicidal to someone you want that relationship generally kills itself (don't lean against your invisible cage in a way that...
suffering and character
life rarely decrements gently you usually lose a lot of things at once I don't see anything redemptive in any of my suffering, at least not in any way shape or form that offers any benefit to me. As one of my poems suggest, suffering may build character in one's life...
truth we can handle
the mentally healthy can take religion a kernel of crazy stuff with a shell of rationality but those of us mentally ill eat through the shell and cannot handle the kernel I don't choose what to believe the evidence chooses for me Listened to an amazing Blind Hour...