creation mixes magic
with science
and i think you’ll find
we’re all adept
at both
[if we just believe]
human
March 8, 2025
create
creativity
or you’ll die from
lacking
a human need
March 7, 2025
maybe
someday
i’ll feel like
a human
March 6, 2025
i am a smattering of choices
in an aging human body
decorated so i feel more real
and interacting with the world
even though sometimes
i wish i
wouldn’t
September 16, 2024
i know the steps i’d take
and the things i’d say
to be mean
but i never say or do them
they remain inside my mouth/my throat/buried deep inside my mind
and though those actions i’ve never taken
and i know i never will,
how come having those thoughts alone makes me feel like
the worst person who has ever lived?
[i know i know the point is
we cannot control our immediate reactions/thoughts/feelings,
but what we can control —
and what shows the merit of a person —
is how we act on them, but i guess i just want to be so good of a human
that i never have human feelings
ever]
February 24, 2024
sometimes
i
forget that i
am human
and i push and i roll and i run and i expect
to go and go and go
and i get so
confused when i’m tired
or exhausted
or just feel off
and even more strange is when i
take care of basic human needs
and feel
a little bit
better
like
how am i, an inhuman cryptid
a god
an entity expected
to have zero needs
feel less cranky
when i get some food in me
or have a sip of coffee
or actually get eight hours of sleep
how dare my body
betray me by being
[the normal amount of] needy
August 3, 2022
oh to be a puppy
happily chewing a faux bone
no cares in this world
but what to do if it gets lost
under a couch
oh to be a cat
content to sleep all day
and chase ghosts all night
and lay down all comfy
in whatever lap
she decides
wants her
oh to be a summer storm
rolling in to a parched land
thankful of the temperature-lowering powers
it brings with it
dropping rain
and giving an excellent light show
and changing the air pressure
for a time
oh to be anything but human
in late stage capitalism
here at this point in history–
the crossroads of
‘will we start caring
as a community
or will we let the world
burn?’
August 2, 2022
a stress
a little baby stress
is turning into a huge, monstrous, mountainous stress
and not because it’s actually getting bigger
but because i’m waiting longer
to deal with it
[when will i learn?]
~~~
but that’s the thing, isn’t it, about humans and stress–
different folks deal with different stressors
in different ways
~~~
maybe
just maybe
i might
just need
a nap
[and maybe
possibly
potentially
that’s part
of the
problem???]
ugh
being human…
June 17, 2022
this is just a human emotion
no need to block it
no need to grasp it
breathe through it,
let it flow through you;
if there are tears,
that’s fine.
if there aren’t,
also fine.
the flowing
breathing
through
is not to rid it from your system,
nor to memorize it for future use,
it is simply to feel it
as it is
in you.
because,
contrary to your own protestations,
you are, indeed, human,
and humans have
human
emotions.
so breathe.
April 28, 2022
someone
please teach me
how to be a human
i’ve
‘faked it till i made it’
for the past 27+ years
and i still don’t know,
i sure as hell haven’t
‘made it’
anywhere,
and now i feel like i need it
more than ever
kipventures 