pickin it back up
notebook paper folded in fours
to fit neatly (enough)
into pockets. writing on the “wrong”
side to avoid the rings.
a prayer every night for the lost and the needy.
feeling freer than you were.
before marriage/tattoos/mental health diagnoses.
embouchures and hope/apathy/lack of foresight.
time to get back in the game, baby.
think back to
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It’s okay to rest, to heal, to sit on the sidelines for a while, but you always gotta find a way back into the game. Good write.
Sparing and right to it. The pace is so revealing and demonstrative of what the described matter feels like being lived. Thank you for this.