paperback, 133pgs.
words & art by mike mahoney, 2019--2021.
 
poems scribbled between 2019 & 2021 on work, desire, delusion & democracy; poems on social media & history, on perception, optimism & culture, on pissing outside & on clogging the toilet; poems on wanting, on war, on A.I., spiritual materialism & the political landscape; poems writ in diners & parking lots, at red lights & work, in hotels, in bed, on porches & with hands on trees; poems living in pennsylvania & poems living in new jersey; poems referencing van Gogh, Coltrane, Sadhguru, Alan Watts, William Burroughs, Cold Mountain, Peter Lamborn Wilson, God, Adam & Eve; quarantine poems, lysergic poems, pandemic poems & psilocybic poems; poems as messages to extraterrestrials & poems as fantasies of global consciousness-expansion; poems on the absurd, poems on impetus, poems on ego & mysticism, poems on the imagination, creation & art as self-defense.