At this point, if you want me to care about Trump, politics, societal ills, racism, sexism, misogyny, literally anything like that, you're gonna need to fork up the scratch. Cash app or PayPal?

I felt nothing once.
Everything was grey and flat.
The sunlight,
the goddamn
food.
I laid in bed for days.
I barely functioned.
Work,
home,
shit, shower, forget the shave.
It was a wall I couldn't climb.
So I did what any
reasonable man
would do.
I did drugs.
Thank God for drugs.
#vss365 #poetry

She chipped away at my armor
with a pickaxe.
She went for my chest and saw some light,
then went for my head and caught a fright.
She ran away when she chose flight
when I was ready to put up a fight
and she never came back.
#vss365 #poetry

It is said that you can't kill ideas with bullets.
The same is true for evil and perverted ideas,
and that should scare the shit out of you.
#vss365 #writing

You can talk all you want to about crimes against humanity, but talk without action is both complicity and cowardice. Even I'm not immune to such an accusation, yet what is the rest of America doing in response to these horrors?
#vss365 #writing

Have you ever looked at the time
and wanted to go home?
I know I do all the time
even when I'm home alone.
#vss365 #poetry

The problem it's solving is simple, really. Filling up the coffers, bound to be empty by this administration or the next, spent on frivolities that do nothing to help us.

Peace is like the frame which surrounds the flame in the center. It contains the fiery passion, but doesn't restrict it from its purpose. Peace is a lantern, and your passion is the flame.
#vss365 #writing

They told me
I would see ghosts,
that they would mess with me.
I'm a ghost, too, can't you see?
I'm walking dead every day,
not a damn word to say.
My walk has a jank
because I died a long time ago.
I don't know,
I guess if you can see me
you can believe me.
#vss365 #poetry

Moving forward.
The mission is done,
the walking is aimless.
Can't go back,
can't see the path forward.
Stuck in a purgatory,
an interim disguised as
meaninglessness,
masked in emptiness.
Take the next step anyway.
Worst that can happen?
You trip and break
your
neck.
#vss365 #poetry

You say you were strong
but you made everyone weak.
You took and I took back,
keeping distance,
drawing lines.
The day I got the truth
you cast me out.
Thank God it was hell and not heaven.
I crawled out of dirt.
I let you berate and beat me.
My years of service
are at an end.
#vss365 #poetry

Acceptance is an ache
you can never quite get over.
Acceptance is a shape
in your
heart,
a pain-shape left in you
by a brutal
indifferent
reality.
Acceptance will always hurt,
past oxycontin,
past ketamine and weed.
Even alcohol leaves you empty
when it fills you.
Acceptance aches.
#vss365 #poetry

This woman is like the moon,
shining bright in the night.
I admire her from a distance,
knowing it's not meant to be.
I don't bother to ask why,
I just know the moon belongs
to the sky.
#vss365 #poetry

A writer isn't someone who cares about syntax or editing. They're not someone with a message or an ideology that everyone magically agrees with. A real writer talks to the page with a pen or a keyboard. Poetry, stories, essay, it's all just conversation. That's the secret.
#vss365 #writing #poetry

I really need to read your shit more, I love sci fi and dabble in it myself.

Sharp mouths cut cocks. That's why people don't like them all that much.
#vss365 #writing

I spoke to this woman online. I asked her, "you wanna know a secret?"
She said "sure."
I waited a minute, the surefire sign of nonchalance. I took my time to write three words.
"I like feet."
Within a second, the app erased her from my existence.
Onto the next one I went.
#vss365 #writing

I wanted nothing more than to be a hero in my youth. To put my life on the line for others out of selflessness and virtue. Then I realized that it was much more brave to live the life I have now. Yet our culture confuses ordinary stability with complacency. That's not true.
#vss365 #writing

Politicians and Influencers Will Never Attend Your Funeral In light of the recent tragedies in Minnesota, the only thing I can really feel is disgust and grief.

open.substack.com/pub/tymelane...
#Politics #Accountability #Influencers #HumanCost #Grief #PeopleFirst #Empathy #SocialMedia #Misinformation #MediaManipulation #DigitalInfluence #Justice #CivilRights #Awareness #CriticalThinking #QuestionAuthority #AlexPretti #ReneeGood #ICE #CBP #PoliticalViolence

I hate both sides of the political aisle with a deep passion, not because I'm a fence sitter but because these assholes lie and manipulate and spread misinformation, and it results in people DYING. January 6th and Minnesota are not different. They're caused by the same manipulations.
#politcs

Why can't they see that their speakers and their leaders are using them like pawns? Left, right, red, blue. They drop like flies for people who won't attend their funerals and console their families. If the cause is bigger than the person, they would get parades. They never will.
#vss365 #writing

Those who were and are persecuted are hardly who I'm talking about. Those in the West don't face that level of persecution for expressing their thoughts, except in the case of the UK, of which people who even question the government online can face terrorism charges.

I never understood why people think it brave to share your writing. You either write it and put it out there or you don't. There's nothing brave about it. Chances are you're just gonna put it in the void we call the Internet because not many people care.
#vss365 #writing

The idealism I once had has been shattered like a mirror, punched by a bare fist that dripped blood in the sink. I still have hope, but hope without idealism is just putting one foot in front of the other. If I had no hope I would lay on the ground and rot. I didn't need it anyway.
#vss365 #writing

I destroyed a lot of these in Empire At War.

My scars run far deeper than my skin.
There's a few here and there,
opening again and again.
The past haunts me like a #ghost,
a spectre in the night.
I'm the only one it wakes up
with terrors, tremors and fright.
After a while it became
my freeloading roommate.
Where's my rent, asshole?
#vss365

Aside from environmental concerns and corporate layoffs of white collar workers (fuck them, they look down on people like me anyway), why do you hate #ai? Because I sure as shit don't and your humanist reasoning is tiresome, exhausting and regurgitated.

I think we should have the right to be normal. We should have the right to be left alone. We should have the right to be left out of the crusades that politicians, pundits and extremists try to impose on us.
#vss365 #writing

I’m fine now. If I want something more, I’ll get it. Otherwise, I’m not chasing illusions of greatness just because some motivational speaker told me I should.
#vss365 #writing

If people didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.
#vss365 #writing