A Lamentation —

Lighting the Bitsignal at Consensus 2023 — On June 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy Jr. gave a historic speech in the defense of liberty. Not of liberty in America, but of liberty everywhere. Two brief decades after the Second World War and the fall of Hitler’s Nazi Germany, and in the presence of a wall dividing…

A Poem —

This is a wild sinful life and it grows in all directions A wild sinful spreading life, like invasive poisoned fungus Infecting and corrupting everything it reaches This is a wild sinful life too cruel for stupid mercy A strangely dull and aimless life without clear meaning or purpose A wandering lost…

A Poem of You and Me

Tonight I walked the streets alone As I have always done Countless miles Countless nights Sometimes There are terrible dreams In the drops…

TW: themes of genocide and war crimes — Everybody has to tell themselves a different story to get themselves to march into the gas chamber Everyone has a different story they make up in their own mind To get them to lift another shovelful of dirt Up out of their own grave To make room in the Earth for their soon-to-be-dead…

A poem about hearts — There’s a girl I love with a golden heart That keeps her young and gorgeous It pumps fast and free And floods her veins With something colder than blood It keeps her make-up perfect And her hair neatly done Keeps her nails painted and her eyelashes long It keeps her legs smooth as…

I have always been a silly little man Without power Influence Money Or fame I have been pushed And pulled Ordered and shoved Beaten Slapped Punched Kicked And stabbed I have seen things I love taken from me against my will And had no way to save them I have lost more…