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Dylan Moran // People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like "be realistic." #Repost @__nitch (@get_repost) #simmsbauer #dylanmoran #berealistic #bereal #killingyouslowly https://www.instagram.com/p/BpQgMPIgkHX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=f61wwq309ngb

I feel bad for the people who never go crazy. They must have missed the memo; It's time to go crazy. Not because everyone else is doing it, But because it's the only normal thing left to do while the rest of the world burns. —sb / it's time to burn the normal / / / #Repost @atticuspoetry (@get_repost) ・・・ Love this. #simmsbauer #graffiti #spraypaintprophet #weallgoalittlemadsometimes #embraceyourcrazy #itstimetoburnthenormal // / / #poetry #poem #poet #instapoet #poetsofig #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity #poetscommunity #writers #writersofinstagram #writersofig #buffalopoet #buffalopoets #buffalopoetry

I feel bad for the people who never go crazy. They must have missed the memo; It's time to go crazy. Not because everyone else is doing it, But because it's the only normal thing left to do while the rest of the world burns. —sb / it's time to burn the normal / / / #Repost @atticuspoetry (@get_repost) ・・・ Love this. #simmsbauer #graffiti #spraypaintprophet #weallgoalittlemadsometimes #embraceyourcrazy #itstimetoburnthenormal // / / #poetry #poem #poet #instapoet #poetsofig #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity #poetscommunity #writers #writersofinstagram #writersofig #buffalopoet #buffalopoets #buffalopoetry

I feel bad for the people who never go crazy. They must have missed the memo; It's time to go crazy. Not because everyone else is doing it, But because it's the only normal thing left to do while the rest of the world burns. —sb / it's time to burn the normal / / / #Repost @atticuspoetry (@get_repost) ・・・ Love this. #simmsbauer #graffiti #spraypaintprophet #weallgoalittlemadsometimes #embraceyourcrazy #itstimetoburnthenormal // / / #poetry #poem #poet #instapoet #poetsofig #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity #poetscommunity #writers #writersofinstagram #writersofig #buffalopoet #buffalopoets #buffalopoetry

Even I go outside sometimes. Not for long—let's not get carried away—but I do. It's too easy to forget how good it feels to walk around in late morning, that cool warming of your skin when the air is still chilled but the sun swats it's heated rays at you through breaks in the trees. It's a small window of perfection that washes over you, gently, like lazy waves that wanted more to rock you to sleep rather than knock you over into the sand; a small window that should grow slowly larger, longer as the fall season comes closer and closer, and the sweltering, humid summer gives up its grasp on us despite it best intentions to protect us from the oncoming winter for as long as possible, not understanding, as weather rarely does, that it's Indian giving of sweet summer warmth is what bears the harshest winters down upon us. Perhaps during the first true snowfall, when we still love winter, and the snow is still white and easy to shovel, I'll go for a walk, and maybe find this tree again, and remember the flirting, playful warmth of the cooling, calming summer day. Remind me, and I'll remember for us both. —sb // / / / / / / / / #poetry #poem #poet #instapoet #poetsofig #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity #poetscommunity #writers #writersofinstagram #writersofig #buffalopoet #buffalopoets #buffalopoetry #shortstory #writers #writersofinstagram #writersofig #buffalowriter #buffalowriters #simmsbauer (at Buffalo, New York)

I’m fighting to get  clear and clean and free But most mornings  I still wake up feeling like this, a smoking, smoldering wreck  of charred bones and regrets A hot shower to put out  those last fleeting flare ups  in the wreckage, my hands shaking  as I clear the debris,  button my shirt, rebuild the facade.  I know you see it today,  in the ashes under my eyes,  the scorched scars  that betray the next explosion  of flames from within.  But tomorrow I will rebuild again.  And I hope you see that too.  Even as I doubt, I need you to see that too.  / / —simms bauer / 'the flames within, the voice to cry out' / / / #poetry #poem #poet #instapoet #poetsofig #poetsofinstagram #poetrycommunity #poetscommunity #writers #writersofinstagram #writersofig #buffalopoet #buffalopoets #buffalopoetry #simmsbauer This was inspired by @_vineetjha's #thevoicewithin. I reposted that yesterday, but I didn't want to take away from their work by sharing my own words in top of theirs. Only so much can survive in the comments of a single post. But I hope you look back at it or take the time to flip through their work. Very much worth it. (at Buffalo, New York)