How many shortcuts are you gonna take  before you realize you're going the wrong way?
Cutting corners to a destination where it's best not to stay.

I am learning patience through irritations,

to love in the face of fear and hate,

how to breathe and speak

when choked up with emotion,

how to survive and be well

when I feel like I am dying

and doubled over in pain,

and how to face reality

when everything feels so surreal.

Once you struggle through the toughest moments,

the average seems simple.

I am still here.

while the stock TING market rides high they be stuffing the tides down our throats like we're sock puppets

I wanna be up in autumn but we all fall down sometimes

I feel like I was painted with brushes stained with colors left behind by previous lovers.

Solipsistic self saviour strategy still saves souls severed seemingly safely so solidarity sews, sees and secures several siblings ;)

After a while,
everything you're stressing about becomes insignificant.

There will be bigger, badder and (luckily) better.

You need these times to build upon yourself.

You need the negatives to develop.

Learn, grow, work, love and do.

Because that's all there is.

There will always be something to focus on for tomorrow,
and if you're focusing on yesterday - you're wasting valuable time. <3

Maybe the zombie apocalypse has been here for a long time, people walking around with masks, dead in the eyes, when rewards come from a childlike spark in the soul, the wilingess to play and experiment while still showing up, whole.

May we always find ways to speak true, act in accordance to the clean spirited, dignified variant of self.

Continually working towards showing as many virtues as I can muster while honouring so many emotions... allowing the feelings place among my identity, transmuting all labours into setting sights on the path that I tred.

With gentle, steady feet, proper pacing while I make my way towards a functional fathoming of existence.

May the consciousness that flows between all beings witness my sincerity and reward me with my deserved earnings.

May continual bravery and courage be present to face all things while still holding presence to respect the self, spirit and others in their many forms and behaviours.

I hope the salt I shed seasons the surroundings with crystalline amplification of what is in the best interest for all entities so we may learn, grow, shift and adapt accordingly.

Like a gem, multifaceted, chryst-all-eyes'd.

And kaleidoscopic like a funhouse mirror, sometimes we have the illusion of separation and when some look at other aspects it may seem upside down, skewed, distorted or wonky, but it's not our face to wash. And sometimes animals attack the mirror when they don't yet recognize their own reflection in the looking glass.

I hate that you know your cards so well, left with not more than to sit and dwell... on the woes and the pains that makes the inflammation swell and the secrets you choose to no longer tell. I hate that you know your cards so well, the metagame structure, the moves and spells. Stories from NPCs, the canon and plays, leaving you locked into the old ways.  Playing tapped out hands, old janky tricks... with only a table flip the  only advisable fix.

I hate that you knew your cards so well...
... dedicated to a gamer who passed away far too early, who inspires me on the regular. I see you, trickster, and I miss you.

One with the cosmos
Here for the vamanos
One with everything
Shining, pinging
Galactic bodies
Mr. Miyagis
Condensed sentient dust
Big bang, boom or bust
Ever-present in the darkness
Just want to park this
Keep glowing at night
Dis-spell-ing weakened fright

Merry band of thieves is cursed.
Karma was a chameleon
Throwing shades to see what stuck
You're strangely hued, for them dudes.
Giggles ensued, laughs feel lewd
You think you're going to succeed
When you're doing that sort of deed?
Always planting the seeds
But bloodthirsty plants poke you and you bleed.

make your BEDMAS (order of operations)
progress comes with the doings
with care and consistency
to bend and stretch
catch, chuckle and continue
workin with what is there
copacetic with own humanity
respond, respect, reflect, rest, recalibrate
adopting virtues from natural cues
recognizing and honouring momentary opportunity
modify form to maintain or improve function
to find & stay true to form
the practice before the preaching
the sense to stay steady & strong

in the name of...
mums the word

tryna exist in superposition
may be miracles amidst the mist
the hierarchy of needs
just want to swing some hangouts
get a grip on it... or make one
the uber-micro-macrame

slow, natural growth is bootyful
back data assets up at re:*****
and all that jass
self rearview is easier with evidence
Do the gitch fit? Swag.
an unorthodox wholly mass

learning to translate the mess with age
****-handling methodology
...until morale improves
need some ballroom: to dance and sing
shimmy down for the shake up

like a strange numbers game
50% champignon of the field!
hundo pea sugar daddy!
bes yuz seksen dort

reasonably emote on that ****
In tune with your intuition
power of pronoia and placebo
making sense out of the shadows
rainbows through windows
emotional support sobaka

Daily efforts appreciated
cycle-logical improvements
the sign of a steady advance
another day and some more trottrots
stay on the ball and roll with it
now is always the perfect time
what we repeatedly do

doubling down on useful wayfinding
Pick a side-quest with your pomodoro
is that more "loyal opposition"?
did the heibai 69 make the greys?
HIGHBROW vs lowbrow ****

the luck of the i wish/careful what ye be wishing for
not my first rodeo / back on my bull double feat
ilio & lio paradox show / double feature show ponii

do onto others as you'd want done onto you next
in-sight and in-tell are in-side jobs
who are you accountable to?
Just doin' your personal best
it's just a body of work
intense brainstorming sessions
still an achievement if no man sees it
takin' my time with it
grindin' through the mystery business
nostalgia as a check-point
mending with connective solutions

In commune de cat, oh.
the cat's song is a mew's sing
seasonal skin shedding

bolstered to grow up amazingly
Maybe the roots go deeper than expected
giving mushroom to find the morel of hisstory
put peas on erf while handlin' the beets down
the magic beans talk & bee's knees
there is a trellis in the hedge, now
as fresh as I can get
encouraging of a sage perspective
rosetau far eye reggae-later

earning the stars and stripes
bootids, scootin' and a bogey
we like tha moon (coz it is close to us)
interstellar adventurer: 2supernova&survive
its ostarmonath awaiting in the skies
the ressurection of sol, brother
if aethera is to a terra like soil is to sol
soul are constantly

When things get loud
on high alerts for quick-in'd tell and excited awareness
the trouble with tribos is when it goes TENG
psyop multi-point conversion for bonus
One man's junk DNA is anothers inherited treasure trove of traits

is cailin me bean fear

yo, **, continue? skkrtskkrt

just got one thing to say *raspberries