SENDING YOU MY SINCERE (and shamelessly imperfect) LOVE

(that's a nice welcome, right?)

Jaiya John (#jaiyajohn) wrote:

“The most effective way to jump in the water is to jump in the water.”

So this is me jumping into Substack. I’m not going to wait until I have it figured out because the ideas tend to drown and sink in my perfectionist ideals. It’s not a swan dive, but I hope you can feel my belly-flopping sincerity. No idea what’s going on around here but there are a lot of talented people on this platform that I’m going to subscribe and learn from. In honor of Napowrimo 2024 (April is National Poetry Writing Month), I’d like to share some longer writing, starting with this first poem below:

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when you see another person suffer
and you want them to be healed
if they keep getting weirder
it only means they are getting free-er
unraveling out of their standard genre

like a cassette 
whose tape is all strung out
blowing in the parking lot

shell cracked open and guts oozing out
tape fluttering twisted upon itself
trying to reach nirvana via the breath
yet holding on still partially in the cassette

(the music will never play that way again)

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Sending you hope,

Leann