Stuck inside Poem — The Rhino Sanctuary if rhinos were ideas

[1] After I learned Seneca, the dude who coined stoicism, was Nero’s tutor, it became more obvious that stoicism is indeed for psychopaths.

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Stressed Out and Stretched Out: A Stuck Inside Poem, Day 26

That’s all any of us can really offer.

A hand that’s outstretched.

It’s also the one thing we cannot accept.

You don’t know who’s been coughing.

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1:04 AM, New Orleans: A Stuck Inside Poem. Day 19

I felt like the 911 operator

felt a type of way

because I didn’t want to give her my name.

Like I was keeping something from her.

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Jelly, It’s Supposed to be Jelly: A Stuck Inside Poem, Day 14

Just as soon as I thought things were looking up,

somebody retweeted a pic of a refrigerator truck

outside of the ICU. Now, I can’t unsee it.

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Not the Day for Compartmentalizing: A Stuck Inside Poem, Day 7

Not in the mood

for the a-lot-of-good-will-come-out-of-this

rhetoric. Not at all. Not even a little bit.

I’d like to stay with the way

I feel until it makes sense, leaves for good

or attacks out of self defense,

but thank you for your input.

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List of Things to Think and Do Today: A Stuck Inside Poem, Day 6

1. Reduce despair.

2. Leave the house but don’t go anywhere.

3. Don’t argue with people on the internet. You already don’t, but don’t think about arguing with people on the internet. You validate bullshit by engaging with it, even silently.

4. Eat the spinach before it goes bad.

5. Call your dad.

6. Draw a bath.

7. Draw a porcupine.

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