on dreams

Rudy, she told me to find Rudy. The trail is dotted with puddles that are too deep to step into. They look like tiny oceans, coated with a thin viel of oil. The day is now, whatever day it happens to be. It has rained the past few nights and…

last night it rained and i woke up in a tarp on the dirt the past night i shamed myself again and again and again the dusty dirt now slick from tear drops, and the rain. pain wears you inside out . the bench was cold and i woke up …

People want something easy to read. They want something digestible within the parameters of their world view. They prefer that which doesn’t challenge any preconceived notions of right and wrong. They want truth, but without any perceivable hardship. Truth can be found everywhere, is a thing I relay to myself…

There’s an axiom: when you’re sick, you take a pill. When you’re hurt, you take a pill. When your anxious, depressed, psychotic, manic, when your thoughts and feelings and emotions do not resemble the brain patterns which qualify for DSM compartmentalization: we take pills. Pharmaceutical companies money. Lobbyist make money…

But you should be. — The protests that have been occurring over George Floyd have given people pause over whether to speak out or not; they seem generally confused about what they have a right to do and what they are rightfully being arrested for. The truth is that the police do have overly broad…

I sat and smiled. “Two years!” The woman bellowed. The others turned, politely, and clapped their hands together in my direction, many of them nodding vigorously — nearly violently. “Two years of sobriety! What an achievement!” I nodded, baring my teeth in the closest possible semblance to a smile i…

Framing politics as being fundamentally “social” or “fiscal” in nature is perhaps the greatest detriment to adequately presenting the modern socialist movement and intersectionality as being intertwined, rather than at odds. — Prior to the civil rights movement and the congressional resorting of democratic committee chairs in the 70’s, there existed an ideological heterogeneity within the two parties. To the south, conservative democrats relied primarily on white, blue collar voters to help enact what we might view as “fiscally liberal” policy while…

A chronicling of the Vitriol of White Supremacists. — PART ONE The day I began to collect this series of tweets was the Jewish day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. I knew this, although I am not Jewish. My mother is of Danish and Irish decent; she is from Raytown, Missouri and was raised Catholic. My father is of some-kind-of-unknown-anglo decent (his…

Meet: Bell Corp v. Twombly. — “The transparent policy concern that drives the decision is the interest in protecting antitrust defendants — who in this case are some of the wealthiest corporations in our economy — from the burdens of pretrial discovery.” The pool of massive conglomerate parent corporations got just a little bit smaller last…