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✮ Smile, Though Your Heart is Breaking ✮

The truth is, people don’t know me. When people don’t know you, they’re going to try to get to know you as quickly as possible, because you’re now taking the place of somebody that they love dearly, or somebody that they hate sincerely, and so they need to know who you are. —Trevor Noah We’ve got so much to be serious about. Life is no laughing matter. At least that’s how many of us are told.…

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✮ Monday Somewhere ✮

Steel sweats blood, andthe sun whines abovefor holding up and cradlingthe day, sheets of paperstacked high, marching ordersare carried out, and still we carry on. And we’ve beenburning out all week long,beating out heads as wedrift with the current,swimming for the shore,where we can have somesemblance of peace. But the waves are gettinghigher, climbing upempyrean heightslike hills looking to…

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✮ Unplug for Saturday ✮

Sometimes, the thought of coming from nothing is so unbearable that you become a surrogate of dreams so heavy that you have to drag it through the mud.  Worth is appraised by how much value you can bring to the table. That’s how you earn respect.  Forget about your childhood. There’s no time for that. At least for now. At least until you are old enough to realize you don’t need one.  That’s how…

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✮ Voices ✮

Fingers flying everywhere. Quick to point at the legend’s botching the intro to Fade to Black. One viral mishap coming right up!Kirk Hammett has been shredding guitar for over four decades. The man practices for hours daily, performs hundreds of shows annually, memorizes setlists that would make most musicians weep, and has helped create some of the most influential metal albums in history. But…

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✮ Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction ✮

gratitude—to say the very least, thank God for the womb, and the umbilical cord that says he wasn’t manufactured. because every day, he was made to understand that not all who inherit the earth are rationed with love; that the most arid corner of this galaxy is supposed to be the corner of a man’s eye. who, they ask, shall fend off the beast and keep everyone safe? he, with…

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✮ The Pull of Gravity ✮

Friendship is a currency worth investing in the right people.  It’s better to be by yourself than to be with people that make you feel alone or even worse be at the company of wolves baying for blood, nose to the wind, stalking their prey. It’s meal time. You’re on the menu.  You’re a pawn standing on a square, itching for movement from a twitching finger. That’s how it feels sometimes.  But it…

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✮ Symmetry ✮

See it for what it is.                                        Unfiltered. Not airbrushed.                                        Raw and unapologetic.True, it has its flaws.But there is beauty in blemish.                                         It’s okay to say that you’re NOT OKAY. When              the sun lowers its sunglasses and butters the place up with a new-fangled optimism, spreading it…

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✮ Silicone ✮

All along the rust belt where time is no longer a tenant due to ennui, happy machines throttle their dreams, hovering over the clock  long since worn raw, their faith screeches in agony, faces twisted of what used to be pieces of humanity.  Celestial beings…so they thought…in the end, were mortals like everyone,  pry bars striking the hardened dirt, dirt, which neither have a dram of will or…

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✮ Think or Sink ✮

Life is not without a sense of irony. While Morpheus is right verbatim in the movie The Matrix, life really is not without sense if irony.Your car breaks down on the way to an important meeting. Your laptop crashes with an unsaved presentation which you’ve been working on all night. Your landlord with crooked brows raises the rent when you’re already stretching your budget. You take out a car…

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✮ Wardrobe ✮

Take dressing for success figuratively. Let your character, attitude, and mind wear the finest suits and dresses. There is nothing Gucci can elevate in your character save for meeting the physical expectation that people falsely conceive, for who you are remains with you wherever you go and whatever you wear, so invest in the right wardrobe.Walk into any boardroom, social gathering networking…

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✮ The Loophole in the Loop ✮

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.” — Brené Brown When we hung out for our usual talk-over-coffee day, Sam had a glum look on his face, and his sour demeanor tainted the mood. “What’s that matter?” I asked. “What the heck am I doing wrong?” Rubbing his temple with his hand. “I’ve been applying everywhere, and I’m not getting anything.” He picks up his cup,…

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✮ Hide ✮

The flamingos I know are neither pink nor salmon orange resembling sunset. Other than the language of rage—a parlance so sharp and biting—they speak nothing else.  They don’t hang around lawns and golf courses like the plastic ones do. They don’t pass as storks when waddling in the water. So I peck the way they would, know my place in this giant tangerine globe. When navigating neighborhoods, I…

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✮ Episode ✮

Then you walk through a sliver of a moment when all you hear is the pervasive voice of your soul coloring what you see and reflect on your life.  You’ve come a long way since you were a draft of the home that you are now. A place where hearts seeking refuge find it in your arms. You are overflowing with gratitude for what you have become, or if you haven’t  turned to that miracle of a person yet,…

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✮ Forest Clearing  ✮

Blessed is he who, as a child, was bentinto a man, fashioned into the likenessof their greed and lascivious temperaments, cold is he, who with surplus prayers gotwishes leaving him disfigured and trudgingthrough the great beyond. In the consciousness is a consciousnessspirited as the core of this world and yetas one who has or had a voice, it brings us comfort to know that a beautiful thoughtis…

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✮ Reprint ✮

“Man is not what he thinks he is; he is what he hides.”— André Malraux One more thing,” Dr. Vera added, her voice dipping down her throat. “Sometimes the reconstructed individuals display knowledge or behaviors that seem… unfamiliar. This is normal. The quantum memory mapping occasionally captures peripheral neural pathways. Consider it as accessing files you didn’t know existed on an old…

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✮ Tick of the Clock ✮

✮ Over the Rainbow ✮ Over the rainbow, way up high, depending on what pills you’re on— there might be an answer to this escalating blood pressure; to the bends, and only bends on the long road.  Under the diaphragm, a heart is poised for honestyabout to burst as it crosses a tightrope to nowhere,  knees buckling, if it had; legs fidgety, if it had; teeth grating against one another; if it had;…

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✮ King of the Strings ✮

The fervor of youth is seen in the glazed pool of their faces.  Watered with hope, broken pieces of the future glimmering,  be it luminous green, russet, Sirius black, pewter, indigo— —dreams dives in.  Before we were shattered, colliding against the wall of truth that made us shed the best parts of us,  he was us. Spoke the language of the cosmos reverberating on a string, If he only knew, no…