<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Sam O. Burgess]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam O. Burgess]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/writing</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:20:59 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Writing Sandwiches]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have had this little spell away from it and now that I’m back I’m incapable of writing. Incapable. Have had? Now that I’m back? That...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/writing-sandwiches</link><guid isPermaLink="false">654952820ff109e1e83af9d1</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2023 20:54:38 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work Chat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Work is cabalistic. Not the individual’s job. The tasks at hand, the little pieces of action that add to the whole of a completed...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/work-chat</link><guid isPermaLink="false">650747b3869717842037901d</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2023 18:39:18 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Silly Tired Inspired by Dance]]></title><description><![CDATA[The yawn escapes my mouth and my eyelids flutter. My body pushes my eyelids one way, the street sends it another. Why are motorcycles so...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/a-silly-tired-inspired-by-dance</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65070d4bef8ce914fb29582b</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2023 14:29:43 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helping Hand]]></title><description><![CDATA[How many casual life-saving techniques are there? How many should a person know? What is required of the ordinary person? I was in a...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/helping-hand</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64ef12b1a1dae56c2bd34c20</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2023 09:58:12 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hair on Carpet]]></title><description><![CDATA[My hair sticks to the carpet. I'm not doing a handstand, I'm on my feet. I push the hoover over it and over it and over it. It just won't...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/hair-on-carpet</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64ea575ec1a4dc20099fc6af</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2023 19:50:08 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lost Butterfly]]></title><description><![CDATA[A butterfly flew into my apartment today. It moved with some pace, too. I was at my desk, typing, scrolling, working away on the laptop,...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/the-lost-butterfly</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64da8e27f34470271f79c5ab</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 20:27:40 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad Luck]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’m a little worried about this one. I’m a semi-superstitious person, I don’t want to worsen the situation. Perhaps if I whisper, Reality...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/bad-luck</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64d8a9a23f55404937350ba3</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2023 10:00:38 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fatigue]]></title><description><![CDATA[Returning to fertile territory. That’s the aim. I am in those plains, no, those fields, those gorgeous, juicy, green, oh so green fields...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/untitled</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64ccd091e2553ff2ff06b06c</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2023 10:19:22 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blocked Ear]]></title><description><![CDATA[My right ear has decided it is time for a break. Well, perhaps it wasn’t the ear, perhaps it was the substance inside the ear. But if the...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/blocked-ear</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64c24b497dc30daafbcf1a45</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:47:59 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flips Over Conversation]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve been thinking about conversation recently. There have been so many thoughts relating to it that it seems I’ve reached a chapter of...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/flips-over-conversation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64b96ad21c927de21522fb13</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2023 17:13:23 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Meditate]]></title><description><![CDATA[I meditated earlier today. It had been quite a long time since my last one. Maybe even close to a year. The idea to do one today came to...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/why-meditate</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64a5d156cfbac9ac6e03652a</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 20:24:26 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mount Birthday]]></title><description><![CDATA[For what seems like every year of the past eight or so years I have been afraid of my birthday. That day, that yearly day, is a monument....]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/mount-birthday</link><guid isPermaLink="false">649d90e7dc8225a7d10e712a</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 14:11:13 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choosing a Do]]></title><description><![CDATA[What if I stopped creating? A transition from a some-time producer to an all-time consumer. It’s ghastly! It’s inhumane! It’s not fair!...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/choosing-a-do</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6490a15888598224dcae5c79</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 18:41:41 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost Limo]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve been taken for a ride by comfort. I saw a flashy car, a limousine for reprobates maybe or a vastly upgraded landfill-born piece of...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/lost-limo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">648c7d877015517073eb846c</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:20:10 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away, Present]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was sitting on a bench. Its back was against a fence that demarcated the edge of a hotel’s premises. Its feet were on a concrete...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/away-present</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6481d5573bfab6764d6bf91d</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 13:20:07 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instructions for Using Money]]></title><description><![CDATA[The food packaging has a set of instructions printed on it that tell me what to do to have edible food, so that I can be satiated, so...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/instructions-for-using-money</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6470dfb77f139549ae2294db</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 16:35:32 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Should I Write?]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is the first week in which I’ve been stumped as to what to write. What does that mean? Does that mean I am within a moment of...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/what-should-i-write</link><guid isPermaLink="false">646f22d6644f6b2adacfcd19</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 08:57:38 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Period of Devastation]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have entered a period of devastation. The mere idea of navigating through it is rife with dread. I have been terrorised by time,...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/a-period-of-devastation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">646640521130699a9c349a7e</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2023 15:14:09 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clarity for a Scattered Mind]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scattered mind at the moment. Using this space in an attempt to lure some clarity. There are so many places and acts to take the place of...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/clarity-for-a-scattered-mind</link><guid isPermaLink="false">644abe1b7786e12df2032ba1</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2023 18:25:35 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Am Being Stalked]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am being stalked. It is an unyielding situation. She ambushes me every week, if not more often. The bombardments are almost always in...]]></description><link>https://samoburgess.wixsite.com/samob/post/i-am-being-stalked</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64416c9e6997c6a97db315f3</guid><category><![CDATA[On Scrap Paper]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:51:54 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sam O. Burgess</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>