Status Updates From Hourglass Museum

i am very tired of "motherhood is hard because men don't care abt their own children" like it's not bad, but i am very tired of reading abt it

Loved this

"Madness is a meaningful way to exist." -- from Menacing Gods: An Abract

"I'm somewhere between sides at the moment, somewhere / over the hill and underwhelmed. // Somewhere between the grass is always greener / and I just need to water my own grass." -- from Portrait of an Argument

"Success: its usefulness is overrated." -- from "Distant Horizons"

"I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it: / The past, present, and future walk into a bar -- it was tense." -- from "Sketchbook with an Undercurrent of Grief"

"There's no dessert in the picnic basket, / so I swallow time. My mouth is full / of hands and numbers. I ask for seconds." -- from "Drowning Girl: A Waterlogged Ars Poetica"

"I place solitude in a frame on my desk / an call it, The one I love." -- from "Line Forms Here"

"If you think you are the mermaid, think again. / You are the ocean holding the mermaid afloat, / trying to change the world one dolphin at a time." -- from "Souvenir Boxes"

"The parrot told me all emergency exits lead to museums."

"Dark matter angel mingle over oceans / and bubbling cities filled with unopened jars, / all we had were cupboards and cupboards / of challenges." - from A Moment Ago, Everything Was Beautiful (I'm loving this collection)

I'm one one to swoon, but "La Magie Noire" could do it if any poem could.

I keep thinking "I wish I'd written that" at least thrice a poem.

"I've had enough of pretending I understand why everything is never enough" From - The Broken Column