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Fishtank : 5
My old fishtank is in the hallway, looking for a new home
I remember Blueberry, and how I let him die.
AUM AUM AUM AUM AUM AUM AUM
AUM AUM AUM AUM AUM AUM AUM AUM AUM AUM AUM AUM AUM AUM
A sound to kill the thinking, to let the brain just be.

Josiah Olson
Sep 52 min read


Fishtank : 4
515 423 ᗡ THURISAZ/THORN THE HERMIT It’s so predictable. The US becomes a Righteous Christian state —Christian in their...

Josiah Olson
Sep 41 min read


Fishtank : 3
“Here comes a lost soul!” a man shouts at me as I walk home from work.
“Sup” I say.
“Keep your head up.” He says and goes back to his conversation with the other man standing at the street corner.
I don’t usually think of myself as a lost soul. I think it’s a lost world. I think if the world was right, there would be nothing wrong with any of us.

Josiah Olson
Sep 33 min read


Fishtank : 2
They’ve made prison camps. They’re shaving people's heads and keeping them under LED lights, so that they lose touch with the sun.
They watch them night and day, piled up, shoulder to shoulder.

Josiah Olson
Sep 21 min read


Fishtank : 1
Why are we taking selfies with the tribesman?
—Leave them be!
Why are we driving these cars?
How come we don’t protect the needy?
How come we still drop bombs?

Josiah Olson
Sep 12 min read


555
I think tomorrow my spirit may unfold
like the flowers are this Spring

Josiah Olson
May 6, 20241 min read


Oak Tree
growing up is realizing
theres no end to the Winters

Josiah Olson
Apr 25, 20241 min read


where did the robins go?
hundreds of worms and not a robin in sight //
an odd omen indeed

Josiah Olson
Apr 17, 20241 min read


Nuria
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I made a pact with Nuria I met her in a dream...

Josiah Olson
Mar 21, 20242 min read


Desirée
French name, Spanish-German, raised in Ecuador, married a Jewish Russian man. I met Desirée in the Fargo airport, heading to Washington...

Josiah Olson
Mar 20, 20242 min read


Inside our Home
"Daddy, do you want a beer?"
Angel asked me.
We were sitting on the couch, playing pretend.

Josiah Olson
Mar 17, 20241 min read


Ugly Art
I haven't written poetry in a couple of days Just been watching sunrises and sunsets Walking Spending time with Mary before she moves...

Josiah Olson
Mar 7, 20242 min read


Magnets
Seems an awful lot Of goddam work Trying to keep Two magnets half an inch apart And for what?

Josiah Olson
Mar 4, 20241 min read


Sweet Things
I love sweet things I could just sit here drink honey out of a bottle or ice cream out of a tub or I could just hold you forever stare...

Josiah Olson
Mar 1, 20241 min read


Winter Storm
I'm drowning they tell me it gets better I made a painting today two actually I wrote a couple poems I cleaned my shit up took out the...

Josiah Olson
Feb 29, 20243 min read
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🧡My Orange Heart🧡 [Ch.3: The River]
this brings me to the hardest part the river the death of our only child you see, the stars... they had already spoken and it was not her...

Rikyu
Feb 28, 20242 min read
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🧡My Orange Heart🧡 [Ch.2: The Door]
She shut herself away behind a thick door of oak black wrought iron latch locked tight She was screaming into a blanket muffled cries I...

Rikyu
Feb 27, 20242 min read


the whole world to paint
this life I don't think I get it the way she runs when I walk close to her and comes up behind me to kiss my cheek the moment I look away...

Josiah Olson
Feb 26, 20242 min read
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🧡My Orange Heart🧡 [Ch.1: The Ring]
She is everything I know, tho I don't know her Yet Cuz my heart has never Danced the way its dancing Now I chase her thru the city Her...

Rikyu
Feb 22, 20241 min read
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