Fred Shrum , III 🇺🇸🥋 #PsalmsOfTheStreetSweeper

“Psalms of the Street Sweeper” and “Tourist Trap” Find me @librofm #supportveterans EIC @SkywayJournal 🔫

[Fred Shrum , III 🇺🇸🥋 #PsalmsOfTheStreetSweeper @fshrum]

Hit rock bottom? I wrote the map out.

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Psalms of the Street Sweeper — 40 raw poems + 2 gritty short stories diving into noir, addiction, mental health, broken lives... and the hard climb toward redemption.
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[Gabino Iglesias @Gabino_Iglesias]

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

[Fred Shrum , III 🇺🇸🥋 #PsalmsOfTheStreetSweeper @fshrum]

@FiredUpCoug 👍

[Brigham's Burner @FiredUpCoug]

My dumb idea of the day:

We should establish something like birthstones, but for men.

Instead of each month getting a gemstone, each month gets assigned a cut of meat.

January: New York Strip
February: Filet Mignon
March: Porterhouse

And so on.

You’d ask a guy his birthday and instead of saying, “Oh, you’re an amethyst,” you’d say, “Ah, February. Filet Mignon. Sensitive, expensive, and a little smaller than expected.”

I can hear the commercials already

“Celebrate his birth month with the timeless elegance of brisket.”

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@ASavageNation Just like Robert Greene said: never outshine the master.

[Fred Shrum , III 🇺🇸🥋 #PsalmsOfTheStreetSweeper @fshrum]

@cterlson What a wonderful time

[Fred Shrum , III 🇺🇸🥋 #PsalmsOfTheStreetSweeper @fshrum]

@talishammas Athletes have agents and they are already proven as good. Authors should have agents too

[Fred Shrum , III 🇺🇸🥋 #PsalmsOfTheStreetSweeper @fshrum]

@TunnelroadUS Excellent!

Like Patton said

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb son of a bitch die for his country

[Fred Shrum , III 🇺🇸🥋 #PsalmsOfTheStreetSweeper @fshrum]

@yaninapineda10 Do you own stock in the Knicks? I do

[Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove]

The worst thing you can do in a relationship is ask the person you love to pay for their sins against you. To "prove" their love. To "win back your trust." We are all broken, and ugly, and stupid, and if we were required to pay for all of our crimes against one another, we would be in eternal debt. Either you can forgive them, or you don't. But never make it a debt that requires them to be subservient to you. You think you might win something in having that sense of power, but you don't. Every day that you don't just love them with the full expression of your devotion, feeling the freedom that comes with total submersion into your pact to each other, you lose and you lose and you lose.

[Don Gulling @dongulling]

@JackLinFLL At the beach last weekend, saw a car with a CA license plate. Driver placed a poster in the back window that said "Its a rental, I'm not from CA". :)

[Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove]

It seems like early readers are liking I'm Your Cult Leader, Baby so far.

[Fred Shrum , III 🇺🇸🥋 #PsalmsOfTheStreetSweeper @fshrum]

@luireigns This was perfect in every way

[Fred Shrum , III 🇺🇸🥋 #PsalmsOfTheStreetSweeper @fshrum]

@hahabirdpumpkin I’ve done that too 🤭

[Fred Shrum , III 🇺🇸🥋 #PsalmsOfTheStreetSweeper @fshrum]

@SassyScripty I remember when we were kids and on your birthday you would get ten phone calls on the home phone. These days people can’t even be bothered to text. I don’t understand.

[Fred Shrum , III 🇺🇸🥋 #PsalmsOfTheStreetSweeper @fshrum]

Maybe I need to get back to the mafia writing… people seem to love it .

[The Mob Museum @TheMobMuseum]

A reality show where contestants can get "whacked." A new "Godfather," novel. A Martin Scorsese-produced Las Vegas crime drama.

Mob stories are continuing to captivate audiences, with several new projects bringing organized crime themes back into the spotlight.
A new celebrity competition series, "The Mob," is headed to Hulu and Disney+, while "Connie," the first Godfather novel told from Connie Corleone's perspective, is slated for release in 2027. Meanwhile, Netflix is developing "The Roman," a Las Vegas casino drama with Scorsese attached as executive producer.

From streaming platforms to bookstore shelves, a new wave of organized crime-inspired entertainment is proving that America's fascination with the Mob is far from over.

Read more about the latest Mob-related projects in our blog post here: https://t.co/NuTqCeBjYn

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@bigdumb_baby Gotta be the Mustang. 🐎

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@yaninapineda10 Only in NYC 🤭

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@ASavageNation I hope you get to feeling better Uncle Mike. Whenever you decide to hang it up, please know that the world is better because of you.