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tired of being a bullet

I’m tired of being a bullet I wanna be a butterfly. I’m tired of trying to hit targets I wanna float meander get there when I get there stop for snacks pull over and take a nap absorb the local color check out some flowers see the sights. I’m tired of aim and speed and [...]


easter

in this dream I’m looking at an old family photo 25-year-old black + white mother father brother + me the classic easter pose in the yard outside grandpa + grandma’s house my focus is on my dad he’s so young younger than I am now and he looks so scared! I feel compassion + tenderness [...]


elephant dream

I have in my care three elephants two males one female they are very sick from too much time in the heat of the sun they’ve come to a place of shade and safety now but they’re dying the female is the sickest. they have large ragged holes in their skins burned into them by [...]


god at eleven

god is an overdue library book an empty sardine can an angry santa claus. god is a school bus full of strangers a sixty on the test a dad who’s always pissed a mom with scar tissue. god is a prison guard with rheumatic fever a flying squirrel in a cage a deformed colt in [...]