Last year, when 2020 started to ramp up into a category five shit storm, I began to receive poetry and fiction from my creative writing classes that made me question when people would realize this was becoming a problem. And, if we all don’t cut out all of our collective crap, these young people are going to have a mental breakdown of Hemmingway-esque proportions. In fact, in my mind, I don’t refer to them as “Gen Z”; I often refer to them as the second lost generation.
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My Grandfather is My Anchor in the Year 2021.
My grandfather was a World War II Navy veteran. I can’t even imagine being on board a ship and wondering if my death will come from above or below. Will I die from a Nazi sub or a Japanese machine gun mounted on a plane that would also have no problem slamming into the deck above my head? What’s crazy is that my grandfather was only 15. Yup, you read that right!
I finished collecting articles for my black out poetry book
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Mental Illness in the Time of COVID-19
I know 2020 was just one turd twister after another for the entire world. From Covid-19 to murder hornets, the year was just a relentless string of WTF moments. And I am sure that many people already living with a mental illness BC (Before Corona) found themselves in the same downward toilet spiral I found myself in mid-summer…
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