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Four days in April

Last week was beautiful and terrible and everything in between. It was strange, then celebratory, then sad. Attachments were made then disconnected. Lives were broken and repaired; some were just left broken. Lies were revealed and intimacies disclosed, followed quickly by grief and outrage, then acceptance and back again. Transcendent highs were cruelly displaced by [...]
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Don’t tell them you’re bigger than Jesus

This is when you’re supposed to be depressed. At 3:45 am on the Thursday morning before Christmas, listening to Amy Winehouse explain You Know I’m No Good and Peter Gabriel tell you to keep Digging in the Dirt. But even at that point, I’m pretty sure the heavy stuff isn’t quite at it’s heaviest. You [...]
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Eulogy

Here, then, lay our reflections Silent hymns to our complicity The capricious change of heart and The biases of memory The rapture of despair and The inevitable agony Of off-white lies and furtive cries And doe-eyed volatility The promise of redemption And shame at our complacency Duplicitous omissions That mock our claims of honesty I burn for a reprise Of our consumptive, common fallacy The brief joy of our [...]
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