April is National Poetry Month and I did jack doo doo about it. So, in a scramble to pull together an ode to poetry today, I scrolled to my Notepad app on my GS3, only to find I hadn’t reinstalled it since the hard reset. Found it online, logged into my old account, and pulled up a bountiful treasure of entries between summer 2012 and early 2013. Not just poetry but notes, observations, ontological discourses, and one-liners so good I had to jot them down. Every writer should do this, be it digipad or physical notepad. You never know when you’ll come across literary GOLD.
Found some poems!
My last holiday season drinking alone. For obvious reasons.
Yeah. This happened. And then he passed on me to date a chick who dresses and smells like a hobo. Hence why I’ve given up on dating.
This is from “Orange Is The New Black”, Crazy Eyes’ love poem to her Dandelion. Her psychopathic delivery of the poem was too mesmerizing to not jot down.
Here’s some great quotes:
Came across this standup during the time I was deconstructing transcendentalism. This cat is funny!
Talk about fuckin’ timing. Summer 2012 I was busy with Book 3, which takes Johnny and the gang to Russia. Then Vladimir starts acting up. The story is gonna write itself.
Because you just can’t make this shit up.
I have a ton of quotes from Atlas Shrugged. This one in particular helped in moulding Jossara Urestogeui.
This is one of many diamonds from The Thick of It. If you haven’t watched the series, please please please download it right now!
Lots of quotes from watching The Colbert Report. This one, the expression he made…priceless.
What you may call “eavesdropping” I call “intelligence gathering”! Some jewels I overheard, and a freestyle I did as I was ‘intelligence gathering’ two guys talking near me:
And then of course, shit gets deep. I call this section, “The Philosophy of Von.” See if you abide by any of these Vonisms…
An exploration on power, mastery vs morality.
Initially a choice for my biz name (scratched) but notes on how to combine artistry with femininity.
Reflecting on power, I had a revelation on how dominion works, and who is qualified to wield it.
A phenomenological approach to understanding the grips of mania.
I was HIGH. But this is quite insightful!
Popular topic of mine, the malaise of American exceptionalism.
My favorite part of Gladiator, when Commodus visits with Caeser, only to find out Maximus will inherit the throne. The conversation they have about leadership virtues is very much applicable to modern leadership practice. Here, I carry Caeser’s virtues to the top and Commodus’ virtues to the bottom.
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