i had a poetry professor a while back who LOVED found poetry and got me into the habit of writing down any phrase that i encounter and found funny or interesting or profound or wtv and anyway it's my most prized possession. after you start collecting quotes and phrases and words they line up in your notes app and it makes a beautiful profound collage of your life, currently the one in my phone is almost 200 lines long, but here are the first 30 or so lines for reference:
i was outside the matrix with watercolor at list
why is there rice? i didnāt eat rice??
i didnāt sell out i bought it
it was one oāclock forever
iāve done seen rhode island
bring back the swan
wide eyed babe
youāre gonna carry that weight
ambiguous sentences
sun glitter
i have sick ambiance in my room bruh
and im like wait thatās the roofie
this must be what itās like to have a child thatās stupid
free prometheus
is the wind taking my cigarette
i like his name, i will remember his name
i am trumps little baby boy
forrest into lumber farm
bad things come in threes so you should break a match
one of the worst parts of the pig farm
i didnāt know killing children was a jew thing
i love your opinions they remind me of state media
Dec 24, 2024
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my college apartment recently had bed bugs (weāve been cleared thankfully, but at the cost of our sanityš)
anyways flipped our apartment on its back and i found my old journals. i published some words & poems i rediscovered
check it maybe? itās a lot of navigating ābeingā
Oct 25, 2024
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first poem i loved and kept with me as a ripe 7th grader. read over and over to the point where it plays in my head, little things will remind me of it - foggy nights in the city or the ocean in winter or pondering my own mortality - and lines come flowing back
others stuck in my noggin include style by charles bukowski and the sunflower sutra by allen ginsberg. at this point i can probably recite a good number of billy collins works bc ive listened to the recorded album "the best cigarette" approximately 500 times
Jun 5, 2024
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posted here or elsewhere, cryptically, with no context, short little pieces of rythm between pictures and music
Jan 23, 2025
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if you think youāre the smartest person in your friend group youāre weird and annoying. the best friendships come out of mutual awe and respectability. be friends with people who make you want to know more things.
Jan 29, 2024
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i will never be in a situationship in the same way i will never be in the land of oz--it's just not real. i think using the word doesn't let you self-reflect in a way that is truly helpful. i was telling my friend about the awkwardness of seeing an exhook up in a relationship bc i thought we had mutual feelings and she said "oh your exsituationship" and i thought (for the first time) no, we had clear boundaries i just got my hopes up. my point is that instead of using situationship as a catch-all for not quite dating or wtv failed prospect, take it as a moment to reflect on what exactly went wrong. idk if this is profound or not
Jan 30, 2025
iām averaging 14,000 steps a day for the past year, why? i walk everywhere. at one point i was averaging 16,000 (this is my flex). you get to explore a city and now when people ask me for directions i can actually tell them bc iāve gotten really good at knowing where i am. if it takes less than an hour for me to walk from a to b, i will walk. if i have enough time iāll walk 2+ hours just to see someone. just put on a good playlist/pod and go go go!!
Jan 29, 2024