Published Writer. Staff Contributor for PEPPER magazine. Editor for @SparePartsLit I give you my dreams. Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem. Art by @Sof_Whatever
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.
- Bukowski
No poem will ever give you the truth of something.
The emotion or idea is always bigger than the words.
The words — if they work — just point you in the right direction.
Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.
—James Baldwin—
" Do you realise how rare it is to find someone who sees the world the same way you do, even it only for a single night?."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, white night"
My daughter is at the stage of life where I am having to explain that screaming something repeatedly and really loud doesn't actually make it true.
Some of you have never grown out of this.
I stumbled across an Instagram post of a woman saying she didn’t like the Iliad because it had too much toxic masculinity 🥲 the Iliad…the story about the violent and brutal Ancient Greek war. Lord it’s getting too much. Did she expect the men to write strongly worded passive aggressive letters to each other??