4LL TH3S3 HVM4N3 3ND34V0RS...

all these humane endeavors

feel pointlessly attached to

illusions of accrued wealth

STVDY1NG TH3 SCR1PTVR3S L3FT...

studying the scriptures left

behind by wanderlusting

poets who passed by before me

S4NCT1F13D C0NT3MPL4T10N...

sanctified contemplation

in a world pretending to

spin far faster than it does

S1MPL3 R00T M3D1C1N3S VS3D...

simple root medicines used

to be the tinctures that cured;

we chopped down all the forests

SONG OF THE DAY: Don't Send For The Others

Perhaps America is cancelling itself, as the weight of actual humanitarian needs crush the weak safety nets put in place as performative "freedom" fibers, brightly spray-painted red, white, and blue, but torn and frayed for decades and held together by dollar store duct tape. But also, not really America, so much as the United States, which is a completely different entity entirely. The American continent(s) have existed long before any United States, and likely will exist long after as well, hopefully with people still walking around upon the topside (or at least living in tunnels underneath). There's a shitload of work to be done, you just might not get paid for it, at least not with money. But once we're actually building real shit that ain't just talking shit and referring to brochures from the 1950s, doing work that builds support for every body, that hopefully will be more fulfilling. Because even blessed as a dude who can work from home right now, pretending my job needs to go on, there's a real heart disconnect from what I am bound to call "work". We got shit all backwards.

HVM4N M1NDS 4LL3G3DLY...

human minds allegedly

advanced, yet always pecking

around at outlandish schemes

TH3 S1MPL3 L1F3 P1L3DR1V3N...

the simple life piledriven

into complicated dust -

coltan and cassiterite

4 W0RLD G0T BV1LT 4CC0RD1NG...

a world got built according

to specs that may not have been

beneficial to us all

WH4T'S R3FL3CT3D B4CK D0WN FR0M...

what's reflected back down from

heaven ain't always seen, blocked

by our own fears' pollutions

F1V3 T1M3S 4 D4Y, 1 TRY T0...

five times a day, I try to

cast purposeful intentions

to same sky as ancestors

F1ND1NG SH3LT3R FR0M N4TVR3...

finding shelter from nature,

but none of humanity's

relentless onslaught of fog

4TT3MPT T0 M4K3 TH3 M0ST 0F...

attempt to make the most of

domesticated spirit

but once blaze orange aura's dull

VS3D T0 B3L13V3 1 C0VLD B3...

used to believe I could be

champion of my dreams; don't

sleep deep enough to dream now

4LW4YS S33M T0 B3 RVSH1NG...

always seem to be rushing

between places, none of which

give me much satisfaction

H1ST0R1C TR4D1T10NS 0F...

historic traditions of

pilgrimage and reverence

replaced by raw consumption

T3CHN0L0GY C0NN3CTS M3...

technology connects me

to the rest of the world; still

feel solitary as fuck

1'V3 4LW4YS B33N 4 T0T4L...

I've always been a total

wreck, bashing through median

strips, guardrails, and pine thickets

RVR4L TR4SH 41N'T 3V3R B33N...

rural trash ain't ever been

all that stylish, but somehow

y'all've gentrified skillets

4LM0ST T3N Y34RS S0B3R - WH0...

almost ten years sober - who

I once was seems like distant

cousin seen at funerals

R3TVRN1NG T0 34RTHLY W4YS...

returning to earthly ways,

abandoning the politics

of false progress more and more

PR0L1F1C PR0P4G4T10N...

prolific propagation
of native propaganda
from earliest of ages

1NT3RS3CT10NS 0F N4T10N...

intersections of nation

and individual state -

our fucked up identities

SONG OF THE DAY: Black Bodies & Bullet Wounds

A day full of mind worries, all the while knowing my mind worries are less than other folks’. I hope you don’t have any fresh wounds, and whatever scars you have are healing. I hope no infection is still inside. I hope you are safe, and if so, I hope you are well. Rather than feel hopeless, I’m sowing hopes like these. It bears slowly exponential fruit, in that it’s hardly there, but as we keep sowing this shit, it starts to grow in that way, and all of a sudden despite how all fucked everything might be, we’re overflowing with an ability to be like “fuck it, just gonna do this shit anyways”.

M41NT41N1NG 4PP34R4NC3S...

maintaining appearances

while realizing our culture

is nothing but sand castles