Crazy Concrete March 2015 | Page 19

Adam     my  notebook  is  is  the  name  of     every  dude  i  ever  wanted  to  fuck,     slowly  diminishing,  turning   rational  thinking  into  typewriter   bullets  about  getting  close  to   living;  putting  horses  to  rest   after  running  them  dry.       pages  filled  with  stuffed  paranoia   making  the  ground  harder  when     you  fall  face  first  into  the  hot   asphalt,  but  bruises  are  a  sign  of   bravery,  wounds  from  chances   you  invested  time  in.  sometimes,   it  pays  to  get  a  little  fucked  up.       there’s  poetry  inside  us  all,   crack  open  your  ribcage  and  strike   a  match  against  your  heart,  you’ll   see  the  caveman  drawings  tattooed   along  yourself,  early  innovations   of  your  story  held  up  and  archived   on  your  flesh,  letting  you  know  that   you  still  don’t  know  you’re  amazing;   that  you  can  do  anything.       so  i  left  my  prayer  beads  at  the  altar   of  all  my  midnight  explorations,   giving  thanks  to  the  dead  stories   they  have  left  me  with,  but  there  are   no  mantras  for  the  dead.  i  still  spill     ink  to  them  some  nights,  as  they   light  fuses  to  shoot  rocks  through  our   past.  broken  muses  plaguing  4AM     words  thrown  onto  paper,  breaking     stillness  with  the  calamity  clack  clack   19