On our own little
Self induced remote Island
Without a flare gun

Was machts du
On our own little
Self induced remote Island
Without a flare gun

I never really liked a car I have owned. They are just cars to get us from one place to another.
We have a new car that I actually like. It is a Toyota Something. It is grey and you can read books while driving it. I call it Speed Racer.
I gave Speed Racer a bath today. I felt kind of like a Motörhead.

You put hours and hours into writing a story and then it gets rejected.
It feels like a gut punch, and it saddens and pisses you off for a while.
It may even ruin your day.
You wrote that story for a purpose.
You didn’t write it to get published.
Rather because there was a story to be told.
The same can be said for a drawing or a painting.
Don Henley is trite, yet still
So you can get on with your search, baby
And I can get on with mine
Maybe someday we will find
That it wasn’t really wasted time

Perception and how one-word changes everything.
Percentage of Americans who say that the United States should spend more money on assistance for poor people: 72
May 2024 • Source: NORC at the University of Chicago
Percentage who say so when this assistance is called “welfare”: 29
