🌟 Spiritual Anarchist: POET

it was you who made me realize this

If you’ve been reading Memento Mori Alchemy for the past 10 months:

• you’ve played a huge role in healing

• you provided a space to for me (and we) to start writing poetry again

• it was you who made me realize the power and role of poetry in not just the liberation of humanity and the fight against tyranny, but in our evolution entirely

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*If you already know this and want to skip to the videos I am sharing (only on Substack for now), they are at the bottom of the post. They’re from the performances in the last two weeks, part of the spiritual prison break process.*

SHORT VERSION:

I started writing poetry when I was 10 to cope with life. Fast forward a great deal, I’m in recovery now, but at (and after) the age of 12, I was drugged out of my mind for a while, so, the one healthy coping mechanism I had (poetry, writing) was on pause.

Sobriety at age 20, started making writing lyrics like a madwoman. Music would begin about a year later. The who told me my words “read like a song” and put a terror in me I couldn’t explain was another poet and fellow recovering heroin addict. It was then I knew I had to sing them, hence the fear. I had never sang before.

Why does this matter to you?

I stopped writing poetry and was only writing songs. The last piece of actual poetry I wrote was… likely in 2017 or 2018. It was like I forgot about it.

When I came to Florida in the fall of 2023, I leaned into writing on Substack heavily for cathartic purposes.

Plus, my accounts on socials were mostly in restricted status for wrong-think, but in general: Substack felt free and authentic, social media felt like trash.

basically the vibe on a good day in the algorithm ghetto 😆

I also didn’t want to be seen.

I was recovering from a situation that I described in the poem released yesterday. Substack offered privacy because almost no one I knew in my personal life read it, or even knew I wrote here.

How you showed me that Poetry is an agent of Revolution: