By Ashish Seth
August 23, The Sprawl

It’s like I woke up to a nightmare I wrote about.
I’m really not feeling good. Maybe human nature isn’t flawed. Maybe human nature is perfect and we just don’t like it.
All this violence this summer. It may be fueled by the actions of ignorant men. But even if you’re a good person, it still puts hate in your heart.
By Ashish Seth
These lights shine like this every night and cars pass by and things happen and still they stand and shine and don’t complain. Always. And things don’t change for long periods of time. They still stand. And it makes me wonder whether some people’s lives are like this?
The only thing worse than shouting and no one hearing you is shouting and no one paying attention.
By Ashish Seth
We come alive at night with the treble low and the bass high.
Spend the first hour driving around aimlessly because we can.
The lights all neon like in color spread across the streets carried by rain water.
And after a cold streak I turn around and speak in a possessed whisper:
Life is a dress up.
Or
Life is a constant struggle to mess up.
Or
Life is how you dress up a wound in front of people.
Or
Life is a 2 hour test you study for 16 hours.
Or
Life is a random occurrence made deliberate.
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Life is a deliberate purpose made accidental.
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Life is the three words said to a person out of desperation.
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Life is the hesitation to say the truth to said person.
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Life is a talk with a lack of macho emphasis.
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Life is too much emphasis on too few sentences.
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Life is pretending to be okay when you’re not.
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Life is pretending to be hurt when you’re okay.
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Life is a movie hall filled to capacity.
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Life is a provoked state of brevity for the hasty.
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Life is not having to worry about people’s ears.
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Life is a bite of expensive pie only meant for your mouth.
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Life is a drink from the river we all drink out of.
The bowling balls are getting heavy
I’m about to leave in someone else’s clothes.
Were we ever meant to be? is a redundant question.
Yes, once in a time of pressure and spontaneity.
The only thing we agreed upon was we were both frightened.
I must’ve convinced myself I liked you on purpose.
And that’s how I found myself by accident.
Too many stops for gas on the road to the destination.
If no two roads are alike, then why should I map my path to another person’s life?
Our fears keep us up at night.
Our hopes keep us up tonight.
Anxious, and terrified but alive.
By Ashish Seth
https://twitter.com/TheAshishSeth
If you can’t win her heart, win your’s back. If you can’t breathe around her, drown yourself in music. A cure for love is just the sharpening of your vision at the optometrist’s. Sometimes reality switches focus.
The danger in risking it all is a drug. Gets stronger with repetition. Siphoned emphasis.
By Ashish Seth
Wherever we have to go we don’t want to go.
Wherever we want to go we aren’t welcome.
Wherever we end up we work to accept.
Wherever we are we never want to leave again.
Lost paradigms lie in sweet nostalgia.
We put in the work and the time.
We never miss the bad parts whenever we think back.
We always live the bad parts whenever we go back again.
Your posterity lacks good posture.
You’ve been down this road before.
Do you ever think the gravel will turn to paved road?
You’re like that scatter plot graph
Where the curvy line never reaches a point.
The closer you get, the older you get.
There’s no end to this trek but death.
But maybe we aren’t meant to reach a point.
Maybe there really is no end to this road.
If we believe the end isn’t meant to be reached,
We will always have a place to go.
By Ashish Seth
https://twitter.com/TheAshishSeth