excerpts from James Baldwin’s “I Am Not Your Negro” — In this country for a dangerously long time never seen any genuine confrontation so fat and so sleek, and so safe, and so happy, and so irresponsible, and so dead. God forgives murder in some bizarre way, to be a milestone has made them criminals and monsters dreaming of anything like “the final…

when good money always follows bad — crazy sad existence if we’d tell the truth has gone to stay nowhere on this burning-drowning-sinking, planetary extinction where volition surrenders to man eats woman eats child eats cow eats grass, it’s ozone layer going, going gone is this land of freedom, in which we just keep cultivating a convoy obsessed crop…

excerpts from rupi kaur’s “milk and honey” — it’s your voice i don’t want to be friends your voice alone drives me nothing is safer than the sound of you build me into your life lie me down lay me open like a map the rest of your life if you are not enough for yourself unknowingly and everywhere abandon…

excerpts from Warsan Shire’s “teaching my mother how to give birth” — my father was a drunk he married my mother hands were slow but urgent i know a shame that shrouds, totally engulfs why did you not warn her? my mother’s remains were never buried scent of a woman completely on fire i have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes on…

excerpts from Chögyam Trungpa’s “Shambhala” — caught in the trap of doubt can manifest as anxiety or jealousy or arrogance stricken with a poverty mentality constantly roiled in the river of lust precise description of habitual behavior because the world is clean to begin with create a goldlike situation in your life stop complaining and fighting with our…

All the reasons to leave the rat race — i’m not dying without my flow in tow, no go it’s why, i’ve shifted gears right down to this slo-mo yes, lo and behold this girl refuses — won’t go i’ve stopped mid-track skip one rat race, just so true talk, my existence is some kind of drift-n-drag and my potential to…

excerpts from J. Krishnamurti’s “Freedom from the Known” — follow the words on the page forget all you have ever thought about yourself fundamentally interested in oneself no fear is capable of great love so much anxiety, misery and conflict because we are afraid of being nobody the centre creates the space between person and person | a scratch on the mind…

To Be or Not to Be — a one act play, on life — CAST: MMM: Ms. Modest Moderates ‘Me’-ness BBB: Ms. Bold Begets Brilliant WWW: Ms. Worry Wills Worst (missing in action) ACT ONE SCENE I We set eyes open MMM sitting upright in a straight back chair. She is alone, perched gracefully in her seat with her hands clasped in front of her in…