notes on the budget spending of $1 million by successwithhonor, literature
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notes on the budget spending of $1 million
$400,000
world peace: anger management classes for the middle east;
family counseling for everyone else
a five course meal for the kids on the street corner,
the dissemination of nuclear
knowledge: we are guests in this house
a paper crane factory, where they release our
bottled dreams like songbirds
& we'll smile, teeth or not
$255,000
silence: a minute of everyone's time, reevaluating the value
of intentional inertia
the reestablishment of earthen infrastructure, grounded
in the support of baby steps
(to rise from the crawl)
$152,500
fresh flowers for the broken hearted lovers, a keg
for every funeral
a cape for the kids who think
gardening tips for the mentally unstable by successwithhonor, literature
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gardening tips for the mentally unstable
1.
i got drunk last night, eight beers too deep,
preaching streetlight gospels about the benefits & drawbacks
of rocky mountain air,
we stayed up past the stars & showed off scars, told scary stories
that we really wish we had just made up in the first place,
killed apathy with a flyswatter, splattered its guts all over
the coffee table outside
and come to think of it, we didn't even end up saying much anyway.
2.
my mother used to tell me secrets, secrets of science, secrets diagnosed
by doctors from ikea furniture catalogues,
secret bits of diluted reality with my toast for breakfast, genial omens
in my aluminum lunch box--
it wasn
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"She made a truly miraculous recovery.
She was in that coma for eight months:
Most of spring, the whole of summer,
And most of Autumn,
But she's alive. I've never seen anything
Like it. Have you?"
"Nope, and I've been at this even longer
Than yourself; miracle is still the most
Accurate term I've got to explaining
Something like this."
"Well, I hope you can help; she really
Hasn't been the same since she learned
Her friend passed away while she was out.
Extremely curious case he was, had the
Very same disease can you believe that?
One in every 3.27 billion