warmthofrelease raze what you just wrote on the_story_of_my_mom is searing in its honesty and intensity. those words ran right through me. i don't know who you are. but i'm glad you're here. in all senses of the word. 240130 ... epitome of incomprehensibility I second that! You're a powerful storyteller and the piece captures tangly emotions in a few words. Made me wonder what we carry forward from our parents. My mom was a bit the opposite, anxious about little things (e.g. when I was a baby, she worried why my baseline temperature was lower than "normal" - turns out the normal on that can vary). Anyway, please do stick around to write more things (if that's something you want to do). 240130 ... raze i like your old_shit. it's good shit. (and maybe i just wanted an excuse to say "shit" a bunch of times here, BUT YOU DELIVERED.) 240222 ... releaseofwarmth thank you for the kindness. there is more old_shit where that came from. in fact there's a stack of paper 5x as thick that you won't see, compared to the stack of things I -might- be able to do something with. but it's kind of the only productive thing I'm doing in this goddamn d(r)ead of winter. so if you like it I'm glad, and good news for you--more to come. 240223 ... raze down_the_slide_of_freedom is one powerful poem. holy_shit did i feel that one. 250113 ... e_o_i raze beat me to it, but seconded. Hell yes. It reminds me of a worry seesaw of my own (similar, not the same - slide vs. seesaw, see) where I'm going side to side with the something like "If too many people depend on me, I'll let them down. If no one depends on me, I won't have motivation to DO anything." 250113 ... e_o_i edits (ignore the "the" before "something") 250113 ... raze i hope this is taken as the compliment it's meant to be — i read antagonizing_lions_is_not_a_total_waste_of_time as a hip_hop song that played on the dusty, half-broken radio that lives inside my brain. and it was glorious. 250423 ... warmthofrelease Thanks. Absolutely taken as a compliment and entirely accurate. Glad that the musicality of that piece could translate over text, but it still requires the reader to have music in their heart in order for it to work. Conspicuous influence: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KlQESTshOPw The man's been dead for nearly 7 years and his legacy just keeps growing, his absurdly prolific ~10 year discography is aging like well maintained real estate in Denver with many bottles of fine wine on the property. You don't need to know he's the GOAT. May he rest in peace. 250424 ... e_o_i damn, i_wish_good_luck_to_all_the_spiders is so good 250506 ... ovenbird I was just about to say the same thing! Spiders everywhere must be so excited to have a place in such a beautiful poem. It seems to me that they are not celebrated at much as they should be. Those last few lines were so good! 250506 ... warmthofrelease Thanks! So often some of my favorite things that I've written (and other people's favorites) are things that just roll off the tongue. As if they had already been written somehow and I'm just the messenger. Like it had already been in me for a while before it was written. That piece was one of those things. I'd like to think that kind of sincerity translates. Or maybe it's just that it's a lot less abstract than I usually get. Either way, I'm grateful to have an audience at all, even more grateful for a complimentary one. 250508 ... raze i was going to say you've been killing_it lately with the "i searched my notes" poems, and then i woke up to how_is_the_water and ... i don't even have words for that one. what a powerful piece of writing. thank you for letting us see the water that makes you move and moves through you. it's beautiful. 250612 ... ovenbird Same! I've really been enjoying reading your poems in the morning and how_is_the_water viscerally described a feeling that I'm very much familiar with! There are so many forces at work when trying to figure out what to do about love. I think I've stood in that same river, figuratively if not literally. It was beautifully written. 250612 ... raze "kissing muddy windows in the long since stolen cities we once built" goddamn, man. that's so good. 250615 what's it to you? who go blather from