The Antelligent Journal

Everything comes easy to you. A quarter of the effort, still the best in the room. If it all goes flowing upstream... Everything comes easy, you see. My hardest memory, filling all the in-between. If it all goes flowing upstream, a story told backwards. A magician and his queen. You could tell every passage backwards. Chef Boyardee. Naturally born superstar. A magician has driven, with his mind set... My worst nightmare turned into my dream. Stubborn. Who the hell am I to assume when your sadness blooms flowers? When somehow the flowers still bloom from your [...] Why, when it comes to you... Like a dream left beaming. Forgotten lighthouse, but the brightest on the shore. But as the better half of me, I let you be. Like a dream left beaming. The brightest lighthouse. You're the lighthouse left beaming. Alternate Draft Fragments Everything comes easy to you. A quarter of the effort, still the best in the room. Everything comes easy, you see. My hardest memory. My deepest nightmare. ...

4/24/23 A deadman's curse, a soul-crushing hurt on both ends. The liar loves by flooding a whole bottle of gin, a mouth full of sin, and a hand around her neck. Song: Deadman's Curse Think Letters Blank 2008

6/14/26 1. Somber, silly sequoia singer; stuck locking eyes with a sparrow. 2. Broken down by the beaver's bridge; grazing the winter's meadow. 3. Why, when I do my best, I'm taken back by the flytrap? 4. Ears crystallizing over; a mind filled and muffled with chatter. 5. No luck by sunup; down in the muck, this tired fawn shivers. 6. Why bother taking cover? Rushing pines down the mountainside. 7. Busy Buck, fire in the alley, flips a coin and it falls in the gutter. 8. Seemed easy to keep above water, 'till I broke the bottle, and the river swept me under.