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Eddie’s 2025 Year in Books
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Camus. Arendt. Gary Snyder. Burroughs. Whoever had the guts to say what nobody else would — even if they got eaten for it.
Eddie Joe Beers
A cracked shell. A held mirror. Maybe one moment of “wait… I’m not alone in this.” I don’t write for escape. I write for confrontation.
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1984
From Page 1 of the Poetry Book.....
~It's 1976~
Dad had a midnight shift
he let me stay up to watch my idol
Muhammad Ali vs Jimmy Young
Jimmy Young
beat the shit out of Ali
and lost
I looked at my Dad
in disbelief
he said
ya have to knock the champ out
and went to work
knocking the champ out
Undeserving
Unquestioned
Undisputed
it's time to go to work
Unequivocally
Undeniably
Unquestionably
~It's 1984~ Read more of this blog post »
~It's 1976~
Dad had a midnight shift
he let me stay up to watch my idol
Muhammad Ali vs Jimmy Young
Jimmy Young
beat the shit out of Ali
and lost
I looked at my Dad
in disbelief
he said
ya have to knock the champ out
and went to work
knocking the champ out
Undeserving
Unquestioned
Undisputed
it's time to go to work
Unequivocally
Undeniably
Unquestionably
~It's 1984~ Read more of this blog post »
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how this one hits don’t read this clean. this one’s meant to leave a mark. if it feels uncomfortable, you’re reading it right. |
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Gas Station Dharma: The Traveler’s Anthology (Backpocket Poetry)
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Eddie Beers
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Gas Station Dharma: The Traveler’s Anthology (Backpocket Poetry)
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read it straight through once. then stop doing that. one page at a time after that. that’s where it actually works. |
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Eddie Beers
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The Barber Pole Anthology: Verses on the Spin of Everyday Lives (Backpocket Poetry)
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The Barber Pole Anthology by Eddie Joe Beers
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how this book is meant to be used one page at a time. no skipping. come back when it hits again. |
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Gas Station Dharma: The Traveler’s Anthology (Backpocket Poetry)
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read it straight through once. then stop doing that. one page at a time after that. that’s where it actually works. |
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“What if poetry’s job isn’t to heal you — but to ruin what’s fake?”
― Look At Me When I'm Hitting You
― Look At Me When I'm Hitting You
“You call it coping.
I call it hiding.
We both know what it really is.”
― Look At Me When I'm Hitting You
I call it hiding.
We both know what it really is.”
― Look At Me When I'm Hitting You
“I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“The aim of philosophy is to show the fly the way out of the bottle.”
― Philosophical Investigations
― Philosophical Investigations
“Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.”
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