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Main Character Complex
I’m not superstitious, just a little stitious. Goodness, that should be on a shirt. Probably is. Listen, this is weird. I write something...
Sam Karlin
Sep 7, 20221 min read
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Porsche 911
Into knots I have tied myself, the anxious ball of gray matter has grasped the wheel. . Leaving me in this sweltering uncontrollable...
Sam Karlin
Aug 26, 20221 min read
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My Dear Pacific
I never thought I would be here this soon and yet here I sit plowing through my hated and most toxic past at ease enough to create....
Sam Karlin
Aug 18, 20221 min read
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I Drink
I drink I drink but never will I sink. Writer’s juice I call it, my inhibitions falling falling falling the pen and paper calling. So...
Sam Karlin
Aug 14, 20221 min read
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I Am Not a Perfect Lover
I get attached too easily and have to hold back my tongue from saying things that I know I feel but can never tell if you feel the same....
Sam Karlin
Aug 12, 20221 min read
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Anchors Aweigh
They say I should be scared of the commitment I am proposing. They say I should be scared of tying myself down with you alone. They say I...
Sam Karlin
Aug 8, 20221 min read
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You Said Yes
It was far from traditional so fitting for us, love but you said yes. You picked it out yourself, and I had nothing fancy to say, but you...
Sam Karlin
Aug 8, 20221 min read
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Inquiries
I have a question to ask. It’s a simple binary. Yes or no. But I’ll admit, I prefer an affirmative. We used to shoot the shit, and talk...
Sam Karlin
Aug 5, 20221 min read
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Memories
Caged in four walls of skin, it is paper thin and can’t withhold what is in. It’s like a cage, or a prison that no one sees. I lay down...
Sam Karlin
Jul 28, 20221 min read
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Main Character Complex
I’m not superstitious, just a little stitious. Goodness, that should be on a shirt. Probably is. Listen, this is weird. I write something...
Sam Karlin
Jul 28, 20221 min read
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Confessions
I’ll break it to you easy This is hell this is hell Literal hell. Your past has never left your side and you don’t seem to care that it’s...
Sam Karlin
Jul 28, 20221 min read
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The Crows Who Watch the Dawn by the Stones
Huginn and Muninn the eyes of the god watch the suns and stars arise in your eyes as the dawn welcomes the new day. Huginn and Muninn the...
Sam Karlin
Jul 27, 20221 min read
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Urgency
is in your eyes, looking up at me from down there where you reside. Have you just learned this is how to achieve what you want? Or do you...
Sam Karlin
Jul 27, 20221 min read
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If Life is a House
then I am just a guest living in the room poised high above the garage and no one else is near. If life is a house then who chose these...
Sam Karlin
Jul 27, 20221 min read
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None of This is Real
none of this is real none of this is real none of this is real! I have to bellow against the voice in my head that demands dissonance. I...
Sam Karlin
Jul 27, 20221 min read
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Stigma
I saw the look in your eyes when I told you. I still see it. It’s burned into my memory bin. It haunts me like a ghost without the ‘boo!’...
Sam Karlin
Jul 27, 20221 min read
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At My Throat
It never starts off this way but oh, how it ends every time, the same. Butterflies beat their wings against my cavernous interior. Just...
Sam Karlin
Jul 27, 20221 min read
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Basilisk
I was there when you left, ready and waiting like the proud gentleman that I am not. You looked lovely, beautiful art above the collar of...
Sam Karlin
Jul 27, 20221 min read
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I Lost
All you did was simple; sought out your normal state albeit too quickly and that was enough. I can see it; your body turning itself...
Sam Karlin
Jul 26, 20222 min read
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Miss Murder
You’ve played your hand and now my eyes are wide. Oh Pacific, I wish they weren’t. Once your thrall, once your lover, Now I am betrayed...
Sam Karlin
Jul 26, 20221 min read
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