Published inScuzzbucket·2 days agoMember-onlythe placefirst time going back to the place where we met, the place where we fell in love my heart was beating, the body remembers even when the brain tries to say it’s no big deal… it was good to see some people from the past and bring them all back to…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·5 days agoMember-onlyartful warriorsmanagers don’t care if you have to risk your life driving through the frozen ice just to make a basic buck, as long as they don’t have to do your job for you, which is why they exist in the first place, to do your job when you don’t show…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·6 days agoMember-onlybullshitocracy / dare to dreamwe think we live in a meritocracy but we actually live in a bullshitocracy it’s all about who can convince themselves and others that they deserve the things they get the truth is, we all want to be praised for our accomplishments, but at the same time we want to…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·Mar 19, 2024Member-onlyeasy mistakesit’s easy to make mistakes when you don’t know what you’re doing… I have no appetite on a day that moved as slow as sludge bagel is burnt but I put cream cheese on it anyway… and I took a few bites spring break and all the students have fled to nicer…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·Mar 17, 2024Member-onlythe inner youall I’ve ever wanted was the freedom to cultivate my inner universe and the opportunity to seek the eternal in the temporal madness should not be the price that’s paid for seeking out this type of adventure — and yet it often is… people look at you with a skeptic’s…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·Mar 16, 2024Member-onlytheories of human motivationthey’ve turned Maslow’s hierarchy of needs into a pyramid scheme… just to get food, shelter, safety you gotta trade any chance you ever had at self-actualizing… how do I reach a transcendent state when my eyes are bleeding at the end of the day? and what’s there to say about love and belonging…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·Mar 9, 2024Member-onlycomplexitymy desk is in pieces unassembled on the floor it’s an electric one that goes up and down so you can sometimes work while you’re standing I didn’t think it would be so complicated — so hard to put together… in the picture, the thing looked real simple I guess most…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·Mar 9, 2024Member-onlydull axe, shallow lakeit’s impossible for me to keep my axe sharp when all they want is the handle… the crude, underdeveloped part of me, the stuff they can take and shape into whatever they like, use it for whatever they want slap it at whatever problem arises… it all seems like a whole…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·Mar 7, 2024Member-onlypassion by proxyit used to be that a song on the radio was just a song but now it’s like a constant reminder that there are people out there getting to do the one thing they love, and the whole world gets to know it and the whole world appreciates it and…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read