My government has a problem with control. I am controlled. I feel controlled. I don’t like the way my government treats me and I don’t feel right about paying the taxes anymore because I’m not getting anything back for them. I am being taxed, and I am not being represented. I care about gun rights because I am afraid that [...]
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Wealth inequality is such a funny thing that I would beg for the souls of the politicians who vote to take my rights away. I beg for their souls. I plead to whatever God they worship, that he or she will forgive them for their betrayal to humanity. It’s easy to give up on everyone else, when your life is [...]
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I haven’t talked about a jamband in a long time. I have an aversion to it like a former Secretary of State doesn’t want to admit letting things go to shit. I don’t want to go there often, yet I am always listening to Phish and the Dead. On August 9th, 1995, I was at a friend’s house. It was [...]
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Maybe the beginnings of things are forgotten because there’s so much that comes after. My tooth was chipped in first grade when I accidentally walked into a guard rail, but this only happened because at the beginning I wasn’t paying attention. The not-paying-attention part of it is something I have forgotten and something that many people never knew, but what is left [...]
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I have decided to release my book. It is free. You can download it via the following link. Saginaw by Tom Laverty Many of these poems appeared first in Unsaid, The Cortland Review, and Passages North.
Wealth inequality is such a funny thing that I would beg for the souls of the politicians who vote to take my rights away. I beg for their souls. I plead to whatever God they worship, that he or she will forgive them for their betrayal to humanity. It’s easy to give up on everyone else, when your life is [...]
