Author: Daniel Thompson
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The clot
The other night I dreamed that a clot grew inside of me. However, not one of organic matter, but rather this intangible sorrow manifesting in corporeal form like a tumor. I felt it too. As it grew, I felt it like a blaze sending that sensation of a white-hot, emotional burn nothing can sooth through…
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Podcast: You are always being manipulated.
Whether it’s a commercial, your government or people on the street, you are being manipulated or something is always trying to manipulate you. For better or worse, that is the culture that we’ve built. In this episode of Inside the Mind of Daniel Thompson, I talk about how certain phrases and pop-knowledge from society and…
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Sometimes, I’m okay.
Sometimes, I’m okay. I wake up, brush my teeth, Forget all my bullshit, And bravely face the day. Sometimes I lie around And decay. Sometimes God is close in my ears, And the gospel choir hums Simple hymns along To my misery throughout these years, Accompanied by the cries of saints And sinner’s tears. Sometimes…
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Lady Liberty and Uncle Sam walk into a bar.
A lady lights a cigarette in the corner with a lamp made green by patina she holds in her hand. In front of her a man in a fine suit and top hat looks around the bar with a sense of importance — not that he thinks he’ll find anything of importance, but that he…
