Buddy Wakefield Quotes

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• The future gets no say in who we are.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Future, Fate, Destiny

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• Pretend – inside your skin – you've got a friend, who's willing to give you everything you ever wanted in exchange for all you've ever been.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Giving, Skins, Wanted

  "Wakefield presents poetry". Interview with Angela Williams, Kenn Rodriguez, www.videtteonline.com. January 14, 2003.

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• Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Wall, Space, Inviting

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• I should have told You before talking in terms of Forever that any given day wears me out and works me sour, that there are nights when the sky is so clear I stand obnoxious underneath it begging for the stars to shoot at me just so I can feel at Home.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Stars, Home, Night

  Buddy Wakefield (2013). “Live for a Living”, p.24, SCB Distributors

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• The truth is that this universe is gassy and unpredictable.
  It still has not said excuse me for The Big Bang.
  Sometimes we expect too much instead of practicing enough
  or receiving in us just the right answer.
  You, the Staggering Answer

  Buddy Wakefield

  Bangs, Receiving, Answers

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• Hearts don't break, y'all. They bruise and get better.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Heart, Get Better, Bruises

  Buddy Wakefield (2011). “Gentleman Practice”, p.54, SCB Distributors

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• You are the home I point to that lives in my chest.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Home, Chests

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• What paper planes and empty seats most have in common
  is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Children, Paper, Common

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• A trajectory of misery – at this point – seems intentional.
  We have all the information we need to see clearly.
  We are no longer unaware toddlers on the landscape of consciousness.
  It is no longer cute to crap ourselves.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Cute, Needs, Landscape

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• I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Shoes, One Day, Shelves

  Buddy Wakefield (2013). “Live for a Living”, p.88, SCB Distributors

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• I choose to politely ask myself to step aside if I am in my own way. If I do not get out of my way, I choose to call a friend who will have me removed.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Way, Steps, My Own

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• You can call me an angry ghost when I'm gone, or laugh into my disposition. But my mom will still see me as her wide-eyed wanderer out behind the garage inventing ways to fend off dog attacks that will probably never happen.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Mom, Dog, Laughing

  Buddy Wakefield (2011). “Gentleman Practice”, p.11, SCB Distributors

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• Jordan tattoos the words "forgive me" in thick black letters down the inside of his arm so that when he looks at his wrist he will remember not to hate himself so much. What he keeps forgetting is that there is life after survival.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Survival

  "Human the Death Dance". Poem by Buddy Wakefield, 2009.

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• Make love to me like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Making Love, Like You, Make Love To Me

  Anis Mojgani, Buddy Wakefield, Derrick Brown, Robbie Q. Telfer (2008). “Junkyard Ghost Revival”, p.28, Write Bloody Publishing

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• If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now.

  Buddy Wakefield

  This Life, Ifs

  Buddy Wakefield (2013). “Live for a Living”, p.90, SCB Distributors

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• If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Purpose, Mediocrity, Return

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• I'm ready to kill something. I'll probably only get as far as my brain cells, but I am going to kill them.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Cells, Brain, Ready

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• The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Pain, Night, Sky

  Buddy Wakefield (2013). “Live for a Living”, p.13, SCB Distributors

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• How honest is it that we drink until we are dehydrated?

  Buddy Wakefield

  Honest, Drink

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• Everything is out there. That's why they call it everything.

  Buddy Wakefield

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• You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Bird, Pieces, Patchwork

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2014

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• Stop congregating in the valley just because an echo sounds good when it agrees with itself.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Echoes, Sound, Valleys

  Twitter post from Jul 21, 2013

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• Even good hearts know how to turn bad touch and genocide into clichés just to make room for more comfort.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Heart, Comfort, Rooms

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2016

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• There is a point when tears don't work to wash things away anymore. Grabbing for breath has now broken my fingers.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Broken, Tears, Fingers

  Buddy Wakefield (2013). “Live for a Living”, p.25, SCB Distributors

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• But I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers, hoping their grace will get stuck in my shoes.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Practice, Shoes, Dancer

  Buddy Wakefield (2011). “Gentleman Practice”, p.15, SCB Distributors

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