waiting for Godot
but instead of Vladimir and Estragon, it's just two bros on the DUMBO steps waiting for an OnlyFans
we crystallize over time
like a polaroid coming into focus
that becomes us
until it fades back into where it began.
the problem is,
do you see it now?
upon reflection, the times we get into the biggest messes are times when we are so zoomed in we lose
i'm struggling with the words
but perhaps that's the problem
these feelings can never be words
that i could tell you
they are
pay attention
there's a kind of fear that you get when there's turbulence on a flight. but what
note to self
the first moment you wake up there will be thoughts already in your mind
like a conversation that you are
the present moment
is a mantra one says when one is walking down the street trying to escape the past
breathe in, breathe
all the pretty things
so much fear.
too many drugs.
too many nights where I couldn't be alone so I abandoned myself.
morning breakfast
i woke up swimming in the past.
the thoughts of her, and the pain I caused her, forming in my
the best years of my life were not moments in life
the best years of my life, so far, have all been in my 40's
though many of the