“So maybe we try things outside of the plan.”

“So they snipped out the lens and they patched up his eye,
But the pressure shot up—oh, up to the sky!”

“…in the style of Shel Silverstein”

“A terrible, unending quarrel.”

“Choose life.”

Another “operation,” another “campaign,” another “wave of terror,” another “small war,” another memory.

“The tension builds, impossibly,
beyond anything I imagined.”

“Between memory and independence,
and the quantum weave that binds them”

“Let us examine the affair, exhibit by absurd exhibit.”

“Compassion Theater.”

“No veteran should have their health care disrupted by red tape,”

“No country can be called free wherein a plant is feared more than ignorance.”

“Every joint lit in protest is a line on the page.”

“So bless the chords that do not break,
The ones that hold when hearts may ache.”

"Midnight Rider" is a fugitive’s prayer and a bluesman’s pledge.

🎸 “That guitar was SCREAMING like it owed somebody child support.”

“If your teenage diary and your favorite hoodie had a baby, and that baby cried into a lo-fi beat—this is what it would sound like.”

I stitched up my heart with red tape and thread,
And painted a sign that read: “Not Quite Dead.”

“a literary coup d’état”

“So bang on the desk. Or bloom from the cracks.
Or paint your rebellion in radical tracks.”