“What do you want to know?” he said. “I want to know why you haven’t come visit me in my dreams every night like you were supposed to. It’s been eleven long and difficult years and you’ve only made a handful of visits upon me during that time. What gives?…
Continue Reading...Author: Matthew Rodriguez
That’s Life
50 said Many men wish Death upon him And now I’ve lost count of the times I’ve wished death upon Myself. As I enter and close the Door, the flickering lights hurt my eyes, make me feel I entered a horror movie. But I am in a horror movie. I…
Continue Reading...A lot like you
Muthafuckas will promote any bullshit product a person thinks they need, but it’s all some bullshit, Hard to promote shit on the big engines, everything is saturated and polluted with everyone’s shit, and your own shit get buried away from everyone Ain’t no SEO can save you. Still gotta Light…
Continue Reading...The Magic Was Just Not Happenin
I wasn’t feeling very social today, I took the Magic to wake me up and enjoy my family, But the Magic was just not happenin, it was hiding from me, but why? Would it show back up tomorrow, or does it want me to take more? Pulling me farther into…
Continue Reading...Drawing Advice from Famous Authors
The First Piece of Advice From reading James Clear’s article “The Daily Routines of 12 Famous Writers“, two pieces of advice stood out to me from those routines. And what I’ve recently learned is to focus on the things that stand out to me for a more effective learning experience.…
Continue Reading...No te deprimas, ocúpate
“No te deprimas, ocúpate”. Algo así me decía mi mamá; un dicho que no recuerdo de donde lo sacó, pero que ahora le encuentro más sentido, porque a lo largo de mucho años he dependido de buscar la solución perfecta a mis problemas en vano. Las soluciones perfectas no existen,…
Continue Reading...Inside From the Outside
Inside from the Outside people can only see me shacked up in the Great White Castle, Wasting Away while the Harbinger of Lost Souls eats Away at me. Constrained by a Sick mind Rewinding back to Past times. Aging fast scared of Dropping Dimes, Waiting, smiling, masking, dying; The King…
Continue Reading...Awakened
The fires that burn Inside Man´s heart can be extinguished By Himself, yet can be reignited through small embers Fed regularly with combustibles that lay Beneath His Soul, Deeply tucked away in the far corners of His own Darkness; And within this Lonely, fireless, Cold can He Be Awakened into…
Continue Reading...Going the Distance
I detest the act of running while I’m doing it. What the hell is chasing me? What am I running from? Literally or metaphorically, I have no idea. Perhaps I chase greatness, something that continues to elude me, no doubt by my own fault. For only fools and cowards fully…
Continue Reading...Factotum
Today I watched the 2005 movie Factotum while looking for inspiration to become a writer. The movie’s protagonist, Henry Chinaski, is American author’s Charles Bukowski’s alter ego played by Matt Dillon. Chinaski is always bouncing from job to job, getting fired really, for leaving his duties unattended in favor of…
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