an empty mind is nothing but a corpse

buying memories out of an old cardboard box left in the corner of a flea market stall and playing them on film reels behind tired eyes

old bodies dripping with liquids that drip and spill, machinery creaking and failing and the lights blinking red, red, red, error, error, error

a brain bluescreening and shutting down down dow

pl...

I sit at a table

The bartender behind

Pouring me glasses

The other messed up people here to

He is kind

Nice

I guess

I start to see double

Whats happening

Drunk I think

Wow

Another shot

I need more

I want more

“I am not throwing away my shot”

Right

I mean who would

Throw away the cure to pain

To sadness

The cure of life

It can leave you sick sometimes

But it is worth it

The sensation of nu...

“And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

***

He felt nothing.

Caleb felt nothing.

He didn’t feel anything when the guy scrambled off his and his girlfriend’s bed, a blanket wrapped around his torso .

He didn’t feel anything when he saw his girlfriend immediately put on a shirt as well, then underwear and pants. As she scram...

“I promise you, we are going to get out of here.”

A whole crowd of children surrounds me. They’ve been here for their whole lives . . . . The Ranks have been holding them here, lying to them about what is outside these walls. Saying the world is nothing. Nothing but a lethal wasteland. The truth is that there is a utopia waiting for them to come home. The truth is that the Ranks want to train them...

I contain multitudes

Folds I lose myself in

People I become

People I don’t want to be

And people who already exist.

I think therefore I am

I overthink therefore I am too much

I am this and that

I am anger and kindness

I am winter and spring and summer and fall

And I do not want to be

I do not want to be....

Finally I walk into the experimentation room with a facade of confidence. I then approach the subject. Dana Marcello: Age: 18. height:5,3. weight: 130. Parents: deceased. Mental conditions: Unspecified.

I look at the last one with a spark of hope and a little anticipation. Perfect.

“Hello Dana, my name is Dr. Chesh and I’ll be speaking with you today.”

“Oh, speaking,” she says sarcastically,” I...

Her wish is a desire

She wants but doesn’t need

She dreams about love

Her love is a dreamer

Her reality is not meant to be

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Ghostrider...

One glance is all it takes,

One glance takes my breath away,

One smile to make a heart flutter,

One smile to make my eyelashes batter,

All it takes is one glance, one smile, one word,

All it takes is one breath, one moment, one memory to fall in love,

“Anybody can fall in love and be blindly happy,”

Not everyone can take the moment to fall in love with nature,

Not everyone can take the time to...

They told me to get out of bed

Do something with your life

They said

You can’t just hide

But my imagination runs free

And my bed is so comfy

It would only be crushed by reality

Which isn’t anything like my dreams

And everything outside seems so extreme

I did not want to go and be active

But it does not do well to dwell on dreams

and forget to live...

“Tyger tyger burning bright / In the forests of the night.”

The first line of Blake’s poem ran through my head over and over like a needle skipping on vinyl. I’d always appreciated the comparison of the predator to the power of fire tearing through anything in its path. And now, watching the trees burn around me, I couldn’t help but picture a tiger pouncing from branch to branch, its tail flickin...