Avoidance
A poem about running away
I thought walk out
I thought feel better
I thought clean slate
I thought no pressure
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No more dog
No more grass
No more books
No more plants
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I step toward not-me
I step toward not-here
I step toward no-going-back
I step to– free/not free
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No more kids
No more house
No more friends
No more calls
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I think about life
I think about death
I think about cycles
I focus on my breath
About the Creator
Linden Carr
I've had an unconventional life in some ways, and writing is the best way I've found to work through that. I love nature and want to feel part of the real world.
I focus on themes like the environment, belonging, class, and alienation.
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Do you ever get sidetracked when writing? I do. I think it must be in the nature of the creative mind to draw connections and have a need to explore them. Since the World Wide Web became established in the 1990s, this has become a lot easier to do. The phenomenon being described as ‘going down a wormhole.’ Sometimes a distraction, but I have written some of my best work when I have disappeared down one web wormhole or another. It also happened in the days when most of my research was book based so we can't blame it on the internet. Book research was just slower. These days, guided by my AI friend, it is much, much quicker.
By Raymond G. Taylor3 days ago in Poets
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Real stuff, my friend. I've lost both brothers, my nephew, and a cousin to issues with mental health, and others teeter on the brink. From sorrow comes sunshine in Christ.