B0RN NVMB3R 0N3, NVMB3R TW0...

born number one, number two,

or sometimes worse, depends on

luck much as anything else

TVRN 4LL TH3 0LD M1LLS 1NT0...

turn all the old mills into

expensive apartments for

wannabe artists with beards

TH4T P0L3 WH1CH H0V3R3D 0V3R...

that pole which hovered over

daily life now blurred into

memories; keep moving on

SONG OF THE DAY: Hip Shake

One of my greatest memories that I don’t really remember because of drugs is doing acid and listening to the actual cassette copy of Exile on Main Street by Pussy Galore that my old roommate had back in the day. To this day, the sounds of this tape sound a way that probably don’t sound right to anybody else, but my personal atomic structure upon this earth is tinged with the experience of that time, which was life altering in the moment.

What we know, despite all claims by scientific method that a universal scientific truth can be determined, is all built upon foundation of experience. We’re living in a hostile time, and people are getting madder and madder at each other about how come other people don’t know what seems obvious. I’m not justifying ignorance, or suggesting turn the other cheek to fascists, because tbh I’m swinging kettlebells every night in preparation of what might be coming up fast. But yo, nobody’s is just automatically born a perfectly formed philosophical entity. In fact, no such thing exists. (Haha, I said “fact”.) But people stay mad at other people, not just the extreme ones (who deserve scorn, because they not even trying to be anything but hateful), but also those on the spectrum not too far off from them. It’s weird to me how groups of people who have openly embraced the concept of a spectrum instead of a binary will all of a sudden apply binary thinking in a situation. The concept of decolonizing our shit is deep and layered and fuck, we got so much work to do.

And at the same time, you still gotta have moments where you smile, where you kick start the serotonin, where you shake your fuckin’ hips and feel free, even if in the confines of a temporary sanctuary you’ve built with a like-minded person or peoples. Serious shit is going on in this world, but you’ll burn out and become useless if you keep it serious around the clock. Life is life, and you gotta keep living, while also fighting the riptide of bullshit.

4 F4BR1C4T3D 0RD3R...

a fabricated order

applied to our existence,

so obvious, we can't see

T3MP3R4TVR3 4LW4YS K3PT...

temperature always kept

conducive to comatose

quilted comfort couch slacking

4CC3NTS 0F GR33N, N4TVR3 4ND...

accents of green, nature and

man, one and the same more than

we easily acknowledge

S1TT1NG 0N P4SS3NG3R S1D3...

sitting on passenger side

sheet metal while my uncle

Ricky made straight stretch passes

C0NN3CT1NG 4LL TH3 L00S3 3NDS...

connecting all the loose ends

together, just to realize

the other end fell apart

3XPR3SS1NG 0VR B0X F3T1SH...

expressing our box fetish

to a disturbing degree,

spiraling out of control

B0X3D 1N, L00K1NG VP F0R CL34R...

boxed in, looking up for clear

space to catch my breath; boxed in,

looking up for clear space to catch...

1NTV1T1V3LY CH0S3 MY...

intuitively chose my

path at most crossroads; also,

refused to loop back around

4LW4YS P3RF0RM1NG M4G1C...

always performing magic

in manners which won't make sense

to those who follow the plan

CL34N MVS3VMS W1TH0VT DVST...

clean museums without dust

is counter-intuitive

to my sensibilities

R3C3NTLY M3T TH3 P3RF3CT...

recently met the perfect

Dirtrock character - a strong

only daughter named Junebug

PR4CT1C1NG JVMP SH0T 0N 4...

practicing jump shot on a

public court until them net

strings gave out, one at a time

G0T 1NS1D3 P34NVT BVTT3R...

got "inside peanut butter,

outside jelly" hook stuck in

my stupid head for three days

3CL1PS3 3XPL0S10N 0F 0DD...

eclipse explosion of odd

light nestled behind quilted

clouds - celestial trance

4SS1M1L4T10N'S G0TT3N...

assimilation's gotten

me nowhere - still broke as fuck,

but feel completely lost too

L0C4L C0RRVPT10N H3LPS...

local corruption helps

enable regional dreams -

quarter mile oligarchies

SH4D0W DW3LL3RS C0NC34L1NG...

shadow dwellers concealing

their cryptic scriptures beneath

light frequencies my eyes see

FVLL C0VRT 1M4G1N4T10N...

full court imagination,

all alone but conducting

a whole eight-team tournament

K33P 1T B3TW33N TH3 D1TCH3S...

"keep it between the ditches" -

rural exclamations of

drunken survivalism

R3P3T1T1V3 ST3PS, MVND4N3...

repetitive steps, mundane

actions, yet expecting change -

nothing is real any more

B31NG L0CK3D 1NS1D3 1S T0VGH...

being locked inside is tough,

whether real world or unreal

world, or whatever the fuck

H3R1T4G3 0F SVRR3ND3R...

heritage of surrender,

rebranded as patriots

of rural America

HVSTL1N' F0R D0LL4RS 4G41NST...

hustlin' for dollars against

relentless riptide of debt,

lost sight of shore long ago

M3T4PHYS1C4L V4ND4LS...

metaphysical vandals

cloak their hatred behind free

speech mythologies, hooded

25-Man Metaphysical Roster: Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

[25-Man Metaphysical Roster is a football dork methodology meant to establish a listing of players who have been most active for English Premier League teams in their past 100 non-friendly matches. Essentially, it is calculated by minutes played, but weighted towards most recent games. The end result is a listing of the 25 players in a team’s recent history who have had the largest hand on their metaphysical sporting trajectory. The English Premier League was chosen because it is the highest level of football played in an English speaking country, and I speak English. Also, it is what comes on TV here in the USA, where I fucking live. And yet still I should clarify I hate English, and also America. Thus maybe I hate myself. Should I not fail in maintaining my unpaid deadline, a new 25-Man Metaphysical Roster will appear on the 1st and 15th of every month.]

WORKING THROUGH A MISSED YEAR BECAUSE WE RE-LAUNCHING THIS BITCH ON JUNE 1ST, 2019!!! This is the Spurs y’all, which would’ve ran on October 15, 2018, if I had kept my shit tight like a Friday night cornrow.

#1: HARRY KANE (up from #7 last time Tottenham Hotspur were metaphysically ranked on 01-Nov-2017; also Mr. Kane’s FIRST METAPHYSICAL STAR)

#2: JAN VERTONGHEN (up from #6 last time)

#3: CHRISTIAN ERIKSEN (same as last time)

#4: ERIC DIER (down from #1 last time)

#5: DELE ALLI (down from #4 last time)

#6: HUGO LLORIS (down from #2 last time)

#7: SON HEUNG-MIN (up from #8 last time)

#8: DAVINSON SANCHEZ (up from #17 last time)

#9: BEN DAVIES (same as last time)

#10: KIERAN TRIPPIER (up from #13 last time)

#11: MOUSSA DEMBELE (same as last time)

#12: TOBY ALDERWEIRELD (down from #5 last time)

#13: MOUSSA SISSOKO (up from #14 last time)

#14: SERGE AURIER (up from #22 last time)

#15: VICTOR WANYAMA (down from #10 last time)

#16: DANNY ROSE (same as last time)

#17: HARRY WINKS (down from #15 last time)

#18: ERIK LAMELA (up from #19 last time)

#19: LUCAS MOURA

#20: MICHEL VORM (down from #18 last time)

#21: FERNANDO LLORENTE (up from #23 last time; also previously ranked #14 for Swansea City on 15-Jan-2018)

#22: JUAN FOYTH

#23: PAULO GAZZANIGA

#24: KYLE WALKER (down from #12 last time; also previously ranked #21 for Manchester City on 15-Nov-2017)

#25: KYLE WALKER-PETERS