The Actual Photo Taken By Nick Frost During Shaun Of The Dead

Tired of being an afterthought

A sudden remembrance

Often forgotten, bares no resemblance

To who I want to be

A strong person

Who’s quick on their feet

I know who I am,

And who I am not

And I will not be a fucking afterthought.

Wrote this during my freshman year of college (2019)

Outpost, Cambria -- June 17th, 2023

Etsy

When life just doesn't make sense.

I control the narrative, I whisper to myself like a lunatic while the characters in the story I'm writing are not following my orders.

“I dwell in the shade of my heart and weave a new sky with the silk of poetry.”

— Adonis, from Elegy for the Present Day: IV; Songs of Mihyar the Damascene (tr. by Kareem James Abu-Zeid & Ivan Eubanks)