[Illustration of the author above ^ by G. Alden Davis aka Greg Grub]


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Begun in June fourteen years ago & Continued in November, 2015, DUMZINE
presents an exclusive 13-part serialization of the epic poem
by Sh0n Grub
~now back to yr regulrly scheduled 2025~

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Rusted gates and Polished skies

by  Sh0n Grub 

 I feel as if a fever dream has woken me up inside. 
I know that things aren’t what they seem so why 
does it hurt my pride when people ask me what I 
think about how things are today I don’t know 
how to respond or even know what to say.
All the thoughts I used to have are going down 
the drain. It seems like there has been someone 
who’s hacked into my brain. I don’t know what’s
 real anymore because I’ve been online for so damn 
long the truth’s now hard to find.
What used to seem to be so right now I’m told 
is wrong by people that won’t agree with me or 
sing my own song. I have no choice, but to be left
 alone with my own private thoughts
I try to stay perpendicular to the truth that every
one else has bought.  I close my eyes and think of 
times that have long past us by. Their vivid impressions 
coalesce before me in the sky.  One consolation that I get 
when I open my bedroom window are the songbirds singing 
to themselves, I try to let their message flow through my mind 
as I unwind and think of days gone past.  I hang onto these 
memories, hoping they will last.  I don’t know how much time 
I have left in this old life. All I know is I love my boy and my 
one and only wife. For them I would do anything no matter 
what the cost. In their hearts I hope to find myself getting lost. 

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