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For Souls Like Mine

​A collection of poems and short stories about depression, love, hope, heartbreak, and disappointment. 

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AMERICA-20

A collection of poems and prose grappling with America in 2020

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​Pretending To Try 

​A collection of poems about living life with suicidal thoughts.
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​there are millions of thoughts racing through this mind of mine. chaotic, to say the least. but i know everything will be fine once the right words take root and grow beyond the chaos.

here's the thing: i see way beyond two or three or four dimensions. i see futures on the horizon, millions and trillions and infinite paths, all of which evolve with my every thought and every action and every word that i let slip off my tongue. the evolutions in their singularities are minuscule, but i am forcing dozens of evolutions by the second and the horizons, day by day, are changing quite noticeably.

there is so much power in this mind of mine. look past the chaos and you will find infinite futures changing. and everything is taking place one thought at a time. all i need are the right words to take root.
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and so goes life for you. your mind may be chaotic and you may want to silence it. don't. just be patient. the right words will take root. and you, too, will see futures evolving beyond it all.

-- ​from Pretending To Try To Be Okay

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​What Is A Country?
 
 
What is a country but borders drawn by hand and laws thought up by man?
Who is to say which human being is legal and which is illegal
In a stolen land?
Who is to say which human is entering the right way
When the American way was to enter by slaughtering the original owners of the land?
What makes you deserving of being American
And Others undeserving?
You did nothing to earn your Americanness.
Being born on American land was not some sort of feat,
It wasn’t an accomplishment:
It was happenstance--
The happenstance being the location of your mother’s uterus on the day you arrived on planet earth.
You are not more deserving of the American lifestyle
Because of that happenstance,
And you are no better than anyone else
Because of the location of their mother's uterus.
All of us are human,
We all have the same human DNA.
Our minds do not differ,
Nor our hearts,
Nor our souls.
If there is a god,
Then we are all its children
And every piece of land is our home.
And if there is any god that shows preferential treatment toward its children based on the land that that god placed their mother's uterus on the day of their arrival,
Then fuck that god.
And if that somehow offends you and your idea of god then you need to think hard about what and who it is you think your god is.
What makes you believe that a god would, for some reason, have more affinity for a country invented by man 244 years ago upon some land that that god created over 4.5 billion years ago than it does for any other piece of land?
I would bet every American dollar I have that your god does not give a shit about America,
Nor any country,
For what is a country to a god?
What is a country to you?
What is a country but borders drawn by hand and laws thought up by man?
What is a country?

--from AMERICA-20

RDG - Nailed it! I can not say enough about the poetic expression that is revealed in this book."

--Jenn C Card on Amazon  (For Souls Like Mine)

Raw and undiluted beauty from this young talented author."

​--Crannberri on Amazon (For Souls Like Mine)

The poetry in this book is raw and honest and you can nearly feel the human heart behind it beating through the pages."
​--Remi on Goodreads (Pretending To Try To Be Okay)