A Fart in the Pew: Growing up is hard to do
Growing up in this world is rarely a straight line. It bends, it breaks, it doubles back on itself. One day you're a kid trying to understand why your parents are divorcing, and the next day you're learning how to welcome a new baby brother into a family that no longer looks the way it used to. Life doesn't ask permission before it rearranges everything you thought was solid.
The poems in this collection come from those rearranged spaces - the cracks, the quiet corners, the moments when the world feels both too loud and too empty. They are simplistic in their language at times, but never in their meaning. Beneath each line are layers upon layers of deceit, tenderness, treachery, longing, humor, and the strange ache of being human. Some of these pieces may make you laugh. Others may stir resentment, sadness, or recognition. A few might spark something deeper - a synaptic jolt inside your proverbial head that pushes you to see your own life from a new angle.
Across these poems runs a consistent emotional current: the sting of betrayal, the loneliness of being unseen, the fading of connection, and the desperate hope that someone - anyone - might still reach back. These are the stories of people drifting apart, of relationships dissolving in slow motion, of memories slipping through fingers that try so hard to hold on.
But they are also stories of survival. Of trying to make sense of a world that doesn't always make sense. Of finding meaning in the mess. Of discovering that even in the darkest moments, the human heart keeps searching for light.
This collection is not meant to offer answers. It is meant to offer honesty. If you find yourself laughing, hurting, remembering, or imagining something bigger than life - then these poems have done their job.
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