A week to rebuild pillars Marble reveries and mortar tears Create a new foundation Still flimsy From fracturing Yet stronger From being tempered In the heat Of overpriced Tex-Mex And the warm sting Of bourbon Soon to be quenched In the cold embrace Of home
Month: January 2022
A Day in the Life: Goodbye, Seamus
You would not *believe* the effort I put in to get you. I had spent my entire childhood being told by mom that we couldn't get a dog ("allergies", I guess. Right.) But when I was a freshman in high school, our grandpa had just passed. And I think all of us needed someone new … Continue reading A Day in the Life: Goodbye, Seamus
Fears & Existential Crises: Meaning
Hello. And greetings from a sketchy Air BNB in what can only loosely be described as the criminal underbelly of the San Antonio suburbs. In my attempt to be spontaneous, I inadvertently signed up to live for a week in a rundown alley adjacent to a liquor store, a strip club, and a Chipotle. Or … Continue reading Fears & Existential Crises: Meaning
A Day in the Life: A Poem from a San Antonio Air BnB
The sign on the toilet says Not to flush the toilet paper But to throw it in the trash instead I flush it just the same In order there is anarchy Distress And the trash The cause of my anxiety Shall instead be a receptacle for my discontent For in order there is distress Anarchy … Continue reading A Day in the Life: A Poem from a San Antonio Air BnB
Sad Millennial Dating: Personality Chameleon Pt. 2
When I was a child, I did not like myself much. And while sad, I don't think this was a wildly unreasonable stance for pre-pubescent Tom to take. An almost irrational love of saturated fats and Skittles had transformed a once promising Irish Catholic athlete of middling height, talent, and ambition into a meaty little … Continue reading Sad Millennial Dating: Personality Chameleon Pt. 2
The Existential Wannabe 