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[albybastida]

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[albybastida]

Razorblade Cafe https://www.amazon.com/dp/1721857559/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_mJKnBb548DFFY

[albybastida]

Short piece called “stare at the sun for hours to see straight”

[kh15963]

How to suck my IP address: 1. I blocked 51 ads from youtube in one second. 2. I downloaded like 5 adblockers. 3. They irritate me so damn much. 4. They interrupt my yoga dude. What the fuck??? 4.5 "VPN" actually means Very Possible dissapoiNtment. • linktr.ee/dogdaysareover • 5. I hella need to eat!!!!!! Go cook!!!!! I tell myself every fucking night Because vegan takeout in santa cruz fucking sucks is too fucking expensive, even some of the ethnic food here sucks. Jalapeños burritos by the river though, are a fuckin slap. • 6. Jogging at 9 pm with a mask half on May not be fully proper quarantine ettiquette. Or maybe it is, considering I always pull it up when passengers pass by. I carry hand sanitizer. I sanitize. I sanctify my body each time i walk out the door. I prepare for death. To some, melanin skin may be a virus as well. • 7. Tonight i am free. dom. inating my selfimagery into a waning crescent. Cyclical beasts of linguistic spellwork. • 8. Desert fart in the desert. Wet firework. Lol. • 9. I listen to my own music as a stranger. It gives me self confidence. To sculpt sound is to take myself apart by the ligaments and stretch my limbs until i can roam agile as fucking ever. • 10. Mirror says Ugly body nice face. Nice body ugly face. • 11. Block bad energy. Not if it hurts, But if it threatens silently. • 12. I felt what sounded like a spark centered in my cranium. [Edit: There was a thunderstorm!] • #bayareaspokenword #ranting #bayareapoet #bayareapoetry #wtf #selfcare #selfesteem #bayareamusician #producerlife #santacruz #santacruzboardwalk #boardwalk #beachboardwalk #random #humor #bayareahumor #comedy #weird #wth #memery #memess #memesquad #yoga #vpn #abstract #abstractpoetry #abstractpoet #beachaesthetic #beachaesthetics #sunsetphotoshoot (at Boardwalk Beach, Santa Cruz) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGYGvHrnOgo/?igshid=15mb90vyq1e1g

[kh15963]

🗣LINK IN BIO!🗣I "graduated" in poetry lol. Join me and @poetry_university featuring some dope poets [inter]nationwide! 4PM PST on their IG Live! + I'm featuring this Monday with @legendarycollective at 4PM for the Santa Cruz Word Church! RSVP link in bio! °•○●○•° It's been such a fucking whirlwind of a week. The fires and pandemic really hit close to home. I've been writing, healing, singing, musicing, yogaing, breathing, breathing, breathing. I'm much safer now thank goodness. I'm not in survival mode anymore, for now. Stay safe out there, plenty of resources in my story highlights 💜 °•○●○•° #bayareapoet #bayareapoetry #bayarea #poet #poetry #poets #poetcommunity #artcommunity #artistcommunity #loveislove #love #wow #queerart #queerartistsofcolor #qtpoc #qpoc #poc #artistsofcolor #queerartist #queerpoetry #slampoetry #poetryslam #photography #graphicdesigncommunity #memes #meme (at Live instagram) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEXpkgpF2gx/?igshid=cnp0tdg1yf51

[kh15963]

🗣I'm performing new poetry tomorrow at 7pm PST with @nomadicpress! Link in bio for RSVP + Zoom + my full performance video :) 🗣 📝📝📝 ...dancing through hallways of the house in my mind Looking for fluid darkness already flowing inside my own cathedrals My body is not a temple, it is something much more divine; a breathing organism. Divinity my cells hold amount to more than my own soul Do they? Where is the line drawn between who will become more God than what is incomparable? But waves reflecting moonlight remind me I’ve learned enough tonight from moments that do not shine Beauty is really just pain, realphabetized into an etymology of gold over fractures, broken into a ghost of the word "perfect" And the same could be said for the house inside my brain I've learned to architecture from dripping dark seething out my pores The moon taught us all She always has             Been a reminder, radiance         phasing magnificence     Just like my every wake and wane and         window pane and pain and How everything can become it:               -pain- The one thing that will destroy so mercilessly it will amnesia your restful Make you forget you can pheonix the atom bomb in your heart Because all I can ever do is wait the moment I will run 3, 2, 1 And GO! As the strings fire, they ice their way in disguise To pass through and Trojan Horse the strings so tightly woven vertically across my face They are unlearning unnecessary tension when all else seems to threaten I can break through I know I can I just need a breaking so graceful you’d think I planned how I’d be reborn, cycle once more Unwind me! I know the mirror can He has my same hands to slowly peel my skin (The same pen as well) The same feet to get back up onto I take myself apart like no lover dreamed they could Undo myself so carefully pieces could be resealed in a single origami-precise sleight of hand... 📝📝📝 #bayareapoet #bayareapoetry #poetry #poet #art #livepoetry #slampoetry #slam #bayareaart #bayareaartists #liveart #love #openmic #bayareaopenmic #oakland #oaklandpoetry #oaklandopenmic #nomadicpress #spokenword #spokenwordpoetry #spokenwordartist #spokenwordartists #slampoet (at Ale Industries) https://www.instagram.com/p/CC4k2wLF7qp/?igshid=66ihy2vdtm50

[kh15963]

🌌I am "TOO MUCH" And too much doesn't always know to what degree he should gamma ray jet expel the supernovas he's kept inside him all this time Corpses of ego and trauma and emotion and relationship and overthinking and mentality and self told lies and I'm saying too much aren't I? Too much saying I aren't too much? See sometimes too much mixes up his language of identity like a star trying to name itself  and create its own mythology Cause the dead things inside me want to catalyst through my throat or my pen which become the same thing if enough stars inside me explode and die If enough of them crave to be ressurected without having to become a Savior  Because too much sometimes feels like his name is not enough his eulogies and lexicons and encyclopedias he summarizes every onstage galaxy moment not enough Because too much can also feel like not enough on days his stars cant even shine their myths to the audience spectating below Not enough is constantly asking stargazers what stories they interpret from his constellations Not enough constantly tries to burn brightest out of every star Enough is a name he might not ever become Is a name he calls others but not himself Name he after the black void he calls home because absence must sometimes become words never passing his throat He might not ever become a sun but he can sure as hell allow himself to feel like one, like a being that can orbit audiences around him for even a while to listen to his roaring thoughts. Might not ever become a moon but he will always admire how she pulls and oscillates ocean like magician and sorceress Not ever become his name because roses of every name taste just as self-enlightening Ever become a star? No. Become apprenticed to the moon and learn spells for waterbending audience's hearts to feel moved, feel seen, feel heard, feel. Become or name yourself too much and collapse into not enough so you can see from how high of skies you've fallen.🌌 🎶 #bayareapoet #graphicdesigner #surreal #aesthetics #trippy #doubleexposure #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #bayareapoetry #bayareaartist #musician #producer #artist #aestheticart #ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ #spaceaesthetic #consciousness #queerart (at Outer Space :)) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCzGm-JFPxb/?igshid=1kxxuhm42w430

[kh15963]

in the distance i hear a knocking it does not make me cower like my mother’s knuckles it cradles the internality of my forehead and sparks, catalyzes its inner uncrucifying from the body it held onto so tight for many centuries, the way light glints at its own reflection it glistens and gleams into god’s last dream dissolved onto the mouths of his disciples during his last supper, supper is just a synonym for “rite of passage for slumber” and so in the thesaurus of my mind, my every stomached meal becomes a ritual becomes the inversion of sacramented eucharist and my every ancestor awakens from the grave of my innermind mausoleum and they chant in harmonies stacked like summits birthing other mountains on top of themselves and in this way i am reborn, everyday this ceremony blesses my skin with the alive of my pulse and i tap my wrists in awe at their organic machinery and how my breath is the summary of my well-being and how many bodies have died in the name of unjust sacrilege and how the priest never forgives sinners within the depths of his lockboxed chest and isn’t lockbox just a man’s way of imprisoning what he knows can set fire to his skyscrapers, like his sky suddenly scraping itself into the multiplicity of a black hole’s singularity until his ego crumbles back into the stardust that birthed it like how a mother could unbirth their child at any moment but does not and thus the undoing becomes the holy and thus i am undone until i am nothing but a ball of light floating incandescent in the hands of God, telling my father that God had something special in mind when he decided to emerge me from the shadows of what should've never been born, my mother’s birth canal too narrow, my cranium too large, still been allowing ancestral and descendant energies to cradle me out from narrow birthcanals each time i’m reborn and this channeling and everything but death and death is nothing but a vein collapsing into a root system, and i am every nothing that brought me here to breathe myself into existence until i resurrect every choir the preacher deemed too revolutionary. °•○●○•° 📸: @glenn.cocoooo #poetry#bayareapoet#nature#revolution#riot#god#death#rebirth#love (at UCSC Music Department) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBguALRlb5q/?igshid=ct6u74jb7mi4