Emptier than when I started
Smoky rooms transporting me to a soulless desolation
This journey of avarice only takes advantage of the unending
State of need
The intoxication amplifies the
Racing in my mind that takes chances and chases glory
I hear the bells
For others, shameless in their unencumbered ambition
Then
For myself
But it is not enough when there could always be more
The chips stack higher and higher
And my eyes turn green
The money flows
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My New Book is Finally Here
My poetry collection Beautiful and Brutal Things is done. It's actually done and finally published over 270 pages. Over a year of my life went into this book. More than a year, really. Long days at my computer, sometimes seven days a week because I couldn't stop even when I probably should have. Then two months of editing that felt harder than the writing itself. But it's finished, and I'm still standing, and the book is real.
By Tim Carmichaela day ago in BookClub
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