Buddy Wakefield Quotes

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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
If we were created in God's image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.

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There are moments of clarity daily. They open me up with a breath and keep me calm. They feed me the answers. And they hold me lovingly. They are gospelstiches. My childish ass has got to let them heal. This feud I'm having with myself isn't even original. But it is thick and rooted. Here's to today, slowing down, suspending judgment, and breast strokes through chaos.

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If you think being dysfuncted and damaged, strapped to your baggage, dirty, ruined and hurt like critical, cynical, scathing, if you're lost or have come up missing, scarred and scared (or pretending you aren't), when you think that's all you've got, it's not. The sadness you wear around like a trophy is intriguing at most, but it's miserable, and about as original as a frat boy with a visor cap. So step up.

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The best songs are the ones about Georgia, even though I've never been there. It's the only place I still believe in Jesus.

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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.

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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.

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We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost.

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There was a typewriter buried alive in that horse, the one I road to get out of the flood.

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Theses moments – as in a quote I read about life somewhere – are not a puzzle to be solved, but a moment to be lived. Just savor them when they happen. Call them coincidence. Call the synchronicity. Call them anything you want but, at the very least, savor them.

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

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

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

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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.

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If we really do get what we give then I give up, so I can get up.

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Everybody knows that smiling is for little girls, the gays and certain kinds of fish who are smiling by accident.

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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.

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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.

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Forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past.

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He's got a lead brain. It's a battle magnet. He carries it around by the guilt straps... don't laugh, you didn't see the size of the blizzard that birthed him.

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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.

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The truth is I am a perfect part of the exact point at which all individual human beings meet and the spectrum of voices weaving themselves in between and screaming 'every sick thought you've ever had and every twisted feeling you've ever felt are what make this painting complete.'

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All these kids you can't seem to make any sense of would stop holding you so far off the edge of your seats if you'd start holding yourselves to the promises you make. We know you're not perfect because we're not. And I know I ain't perfect. But I believe I was meant to be.

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But my father he didn't read moon, he didn't speak moon, and he didn't write moon. So there was no letter found next to his body in the garage when he chose to leave this place on purpose without saying where he was goin' or why. There are still days you can catch me tape-recording eternal silence and playing it backwards for an empty room just so I can listen to his dying wish. Shh.

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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.

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We are the fed up grass roots movement of goose flesh, hell bent on living this one life by the way we feel our spines, saying what we mean, refusing to allow the few to preach to the many when it is the many who need to be hearing eachother.

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A waste is a nine-year-old boy playing catch with the roof of his garage who already understands that his existence makes for the perfect insult- gay. "You're so gay" a. k. a. stupid a. k. a. dumb a. k. a. wrong. Do you have any idea how gross it feels to hide inside the pile of lies it takes to make you, Sweet Angel, comfortable?

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This poem may have meant nothing to you but I am confident that tonight my taking the time to actually write out my anger instead of acting on it has saved the life of at least eleven people in parking enforcement.

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Dear Angry Older People, over 21-ish, anyone who considers themselves an adult, still bitter: Next time you're wondering what wrong with kids today, you might wanna check the examples you've been giving us to work with.

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If we could all rephrase the question from "What was your most embarrassing moment?" to "What was your most embarrassing year?" Then I might be able to give you an honest answer.

Buddy Wakefield