: About Me

I'm a 30 year old security officer at a top trauma center in New Jersey. I'm also an enlgish major finishing up my last year of college, a story I'm sure many of you might be familiar with. I love to read and write and I'm hoping the experiences I gather from this site will provide me with a deeper insight into my work and provide me with some worthwhile knowledge of my field in the process.

My passion is ...

Reading

I know too much about ...

A lot of things

My parents always told me ...

things I already knew

My childhood ambition ...

don't think I had one

My favorite memory ...

winning a state championship

Why I write ...

because I can

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson

My first job ...

Gas station attendent

My best moment ...

hasn't happened yet

My inspiration ...

Life in all its duplicit glory.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Struggle in life

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The Pretenders Powers of persuasion pilfer my thoughts Disengaged from this world of material matters Enraged at the nothings I have bought With my blood sweat and tears, life in tatters We pretend and try to make it go away We pretend and say we're happy when we're not We pretend to go about our every day As if we're happy with our given lot Relationships falter freely without a fight Ideals become inverted and intensely inept You fight to survive this sickening slight Only to drown more deeply in your own debt Sick and tired and tired of being sick Diseases multiply to mutilate the masse...

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