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Life is the art of dying 🫥

A good ending isn't always a happy ending

Art by Sarah Anderson

Balloons

A worker going home after a late shift in Yaletown. As they step under the fluorescent street light, their body aligns perfectly with the balloon art on the brick walls. The strings of the balloon are linked to the head. It represents the mind floating free, escaping the monotony of work society

Black History Month reading

What are you reading this month? Please share! Here are my picks, I'm hoping at least 2 out of 4 :)) We have an interview with the last slave ship survivor, a non-fiction about the meaning of the color blue in art and Black culture, a contemporary fiction about a young man trapped between races... (edited) read more

Humorous Dating Poetry

I don’t have a yacht or a private jet, But I can make you laugh—best feature yet. My Spanish guitar may miss a note or two, But somehow it still sounds better with you. I lift some weights (mostly to earn my cake), I garden too—yes, flowers, not just for show’s sake. I write love poems, sometimes... read more

My favorite poem

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I... read more