Published inScuzzbucket·4 hours agoMember-onlymirror imagesometimes I look at myself and think isn’t it so weird that I am myself and not anyone else… like how is it that everyone else’s mind exists at literally the same time as mine… I get irked out when I catch a glimpse of my reflection from any angle that…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·1 day agoMember-onlydifferent than thisam I different than this… picking apart tendencies and seeing where the similarities lie between generation, between ground and sky how do I zag where you zig? how can I thrive where you stagnate? am I different than this… I can only sleep in now when it’s raining at dawn because…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·2 days agoMember-onlyaxe throwingwent axe throwing for the first time… it was that or bowling and I didn’t feel like putting on clown shoes… was a bit nervous — had just watched several fails on tiktok of people throwing bad and slicing their damn legs… guess if you throw it wrong, the thing can bounce back…Poetry3 min readPoetry3 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·4 days agoMember-onlyliterature = everythingbooks in a bin so many in the queue can’t read them as fast as I buy ’em and yet I still want more wanna borrow more want to smell them more want to feel their lovely weight in my hand… some days you want a light skinny one — finish…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·5 days agoMember-onlydirty techno futureI think I’ve seen all the malls here and maybe all the diners too the drivers are a little too insane, especially around the holidays, the cold crunch is getting to me… the bookstores and coffee shops and libraries can only keep me distracted for so long — their solace is…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·6 days agoMember-onlyhijacked attentionoh my god leave me alone please, just let the air cleanse itself of sound… my attention is not to be hijacked at your every whim… I’d like to have an afternoon of nothingness, of some kind of internal bliss, of sacred unperturbedness my thoughts, they gurgle — I need Pepto for…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·Nov 21Member-onlyapple piepoem + a Scuzzbucket message — the apple pie looks really good and I can’t wait for all of us to eat it maybe with ice cream on top, I think vanilla would be good I’ll go with you to get a tree on Saturday and maybe we’ll play some Scrabble at some point — I…Poetry4 min readPoetry4 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·Nov 19Member-onlythe hyperarticulation of a swindleris that part of the script — what they tell you to say to get sad people to buy in? does your cadence always change when there’s money to be made, or customers to be had? you have the hyperarticulation of a swindler, peddling infant-directed speech at hard-working but struggling adults… did…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·Nov 19Member-onlyunreasonable peoplesee these scars across my chest, I was pushed off a roof, by accident… I don’t blame them, to this day, I cannot blame them, poor armadillo, didn’t see me coming… curved glass blocks in my cozy apartment building overlooking silicon prairie, sputnik was in ’57 not ’58… but now it’s 1983 and…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published inScuzzbucket·Nov 18Member-onlythe way you shine through the crackssomeone once told me that solid preparation makes all the difference — if you make it happen in your head first, practice over and over, rehearse, say it in your sleep — then you’re golden, right? but I’m not looking to be crystal clean-cut gleaming… I’m not seeking perfection anymore —…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read