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when I know better, I have to do better

Posted on July 8, 2023 by Nix Kelley / 6 Comments

I have the ego and expectations of a person with the attention of thousands of people, with the actual followers and subscribers of a person with the attention ...

a POV looking downward at two feet on a sidewalk. the pavement is painted on the right with yellow arrows pointing downward, and scratched into the pavement above the feet is the phrase 'i tried'

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great, this again.

Posted on May 16, 2023 by Nix Kelley / 0 Comment

Do you ever believe something about yourself so hard that even proof doesn't change your mind?

a dark-haired man with a mustache in a short sleeve white shirt is sitting on an old wooden manure spreader, holding the reins of a pair of auburn Belgian workhorses. a young child sits next to him turned away from the camera. another child faces the photographer with a big smile.

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the promises we inherit

Posted on January 26, 2023 by Nix Kelley / 0 Comment

One day, my descendants can rest in the shade of the trees I plant.

sapling with five red leaves on a forest floor

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I’m your mother and your father

Posted on January 5, 2023 by Nix Kelley / 0 Comment

I want to love deeply without assuming that all the pain is mine to endure.

comic drawing of a fox, eyes closed, while wind blows leaves past, with the text 'it fucken wimdy'

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the eighth day

Posted on December 29, 2022 by Nix Kelley / 0 Comment

SHOW ME ON THE TREE WHERE CHRISTMAS HURT YOU.

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I dream of disappointing my mother

Posted on December 11, 2022 by Nix Kelley / 1 Comment

I had a bad dream which was trying to be a good dream, but it was a bad dream because none of it is true.