We’re all connected now, stay composed

I’m sitting on the roof with a bottle of wine. Inside, my overpriced Marshall speaker is playing “The Metronome” by Pinegrove. I can hear it …

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The Moth

There are no rules,but there is cause and effect. When I was littler,I thought that when I grew upand metamorphosized into an adultI would …

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Ooo wee ooo wee ooo I can be your percolator

I’ve been thinking about radicalism lately. Radical honesty, radical empathy–those kinds of things. Lately the pit in my stomach–the kind that …

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So long aphasia and the ways it kept me hiding

It’s 5:40 AM. I’ve been having trouble sleeping lately. I got taken off the schedule at work–something I knew had to happen but nonetheless made …

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Why you bother me when you know you don’t want me

I’m not sure where to start. I could start with my feelings of trying to vindicate myself: of trying to convince myself, prove to my own body, that…

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A Starting Point for Saving Nature

Haiku by Sandra S. Hall Our wandering orbis in perilous danger.Wild things go extinct. To save our planethow do we change bad habits?We have…

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Days Survived

by Will Alejandro Rountree Decisions past Decisions meant All in days which we lament  Some people may prefer To accept …

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untitled poem

By Ethan Berry The promise of a sunriseis wasted on the shallow promisesof nights before.What we’ve been through hardly ever hurts as badly as …

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Awkward silence, like when the grenade a dud

Thinking about things. Holding space here. Lyrical, poetic genius that goes unrecognized. Keep going. Thinking about all the talented people I …

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Broken Pieces

By Elizabeth Hammer oh this time it destroyed me, my dear. my heart has been lit on fire since you left out of fear. i can not say this…

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Why do Death Grips fans hate the new Praying collab?

Also, when do orders ship??? On the heels of that Death Grips tour announcement following their 2022 reunion comes the Death Grips collaboration…

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But I couldn’t stand to lie next to you

Time will tell, but from my experience time is a very reluctant communicator. And I’m impatient. By the time it takes time to divulge something to …

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Art is…

By Ethan S. Berry Computer is on 1% now. So I will see how much I can type before the battery dies on this  lifeline of mine to …

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—The Bad Year—

By Ethan S. Berry 365 Days of hot baths every morning and a weekly shower That is a Year of waking up too tired to stand. 365 Days of four…

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— My Eye, Floating —

By Ethan S. Berry Once I knew everything and thought myself more capable than others of understanding  the things that I did not but …

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— Psycho-Babble I —  

By Ethan S. Berry I have ridden this elevator before. How many times? —I don’t know but the trips are too frequent.—  Always alone. …

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— Psycho-Babble II —

By Ethan S. Berry Brain zapped / Deadline nearing / Buzzer counting down / I’m on the other end of the court Now somewhere in the middle / …

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Come skin your knees with us, life’s too short for a business lunch

On not getting it till you feel it, you’re in the swirl.  It’s been a minute. And by a minute, I mean six months, about. I’m trying to turn…

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“Bach-To-Rock”: How Baroque Invaded Rock Music in the ‘60s and Then Was Largely Forgotten a.k.a. my final paper for my MUSI 314 class submitted in May 2021

When the album Switched-On Bach was released by Columbia Records in 1968, it wasn’t released with the expectation of reaching mainstream …

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“Hyperpop: What a niche music subgenre can tell us about the music industry, the Internet, and contemporary culture” a.k.a. my final English major thesis submitted in May 2021

Choosing not to fix the formatting on this yet, because I'm lazy. Just copy-pasted. Ludic, Ebullient, and Counterintuitive: An Introduction to …

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