Sam O. Burgess
Nov 6, 20233 min read
Writing Sandwiches
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Returning to fertile territory. That’s the aim. I am in those plains, no, those fields, those gorgeous, juicy, green, oh so green fields...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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!...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I have entered a period of devastation. The mere idea of navigating through it is rife with dread. I have been terrorised by time,...
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...
I am being stalked. It is an unyielding situation. She ambushes me every week, if not more often. The bombardments are almost always in...