top of page
Search

Spinning Flavors of existence.

  • Writer: Nathaniel Shrake
    Nathaniel Shrake
  • Feb 24
  • 1 min read

Updated: Mar 1




Plants that we take responsibility for. Dictionaries. Road rage. Grade school valentines. The wind rustling the hair of a street cat. The fatigue built up from a day of work felt only when finally at home. The adhesive that holds skin to everything beneath it. Pavlov. Capitalism. Propaganda. Corn flakes. Glittering scales in sunlight under shallow water. Exaggerations of impact. Hydrogen bonds. Alloy wheels coated in brake dust. Wrestling. Feelings caught between high schoolers. Social security. Red suede shoes. Flagstone steps with burn marks on their underbelly. Gales at sea. Xenophobia. Gelatin. Killer bees. Valium. Fears of disease that are discovered to be only gas. Satellite tv subscriptions. Expectations of obligation to family. Returns on risky investments. Gold. Minuteman missile silos. TV guides in hotel rooms. Paper boys. Dancing. The word “almost”. Fellatio. Verdicts in trials of child support. Sea urchins. Blood. Emails asking for your feedback. Cambodia. Yellow tailed foxes. The Santa Cruz islands. F-16 fighter jets. Eternity. The overuse of punctuation. Gas station cigarette displays. Sonder. Road trips and the gasoline burned. Humidity. Graduated cylinders filled with sand. Tamagotchi. Xylophones. Federer's racket. Spreadsheets. Master Chief of the Halo series. Valley girl accents. Ulysses Grant. Every half dream you’ll never remember. Cold cases. The Jackson five. Inside horses. Melody. Procrastination. A hug at the airport. Red tape. Stallions riding west at dusk somewhere in Nevada. Falling leaves. The sound of air conditioning. Peter Pan. Neosporin pre applied to band aids. Clowns. July. Streamers. Vincent Van Goh. Armistice day. National flowers. Ghosts. The loss of a friend. Symbols that take the place of what they symbolize. Queen bees. Symmetry. Love. Other things.

 
 
 

Comments


© 2035 by Rafael Nash. Powered and secured by Wix

bottom of page