bipolar solidarity

83 posts

EROTIC AND PLATONIC

Our vibe is subtle, electric, and wildYour warmth is deeply attractive and your charms make me smile You are an ancient people’s warrior king and a cybernetic genius’ childWe are bonded by the related demons that teem within our minds We have shared common struggles and bared vulnerable soulsWe seek […]

SUPERNATURAL MANIC MAGIC

] you see us dance among you, but fail to sense our jedi powers in emergencewe conjure rites of love and liberation aspiring towards an all encompassing transformational resurgencewe sync our bypo minds through the meditative practices of erotic pleasure and serviceI can’t choose my apocalypse squad but i can […]

VICES: the dialectic of pathology

lost in the grip of neurochemical riptides, i grope for an anchor or for a potent dose of dopamine age old addictions resurge like pathologies ravaging interpersonal trust so viscerally and so suddenly i have sown the seeds of a pernicious strand of sex addiction amplified by the allure of […]

PELVIC SERPENTS

hypnotic, erotic, and intensely and viscerally exotic we weave our way through this matrix evolving towards the supersonic deeply inspired by potent and ancient pagan poetry we meditate to rebalance and hone jedi powers when we breathe we invent our own religion forged of the spiritual and the carnal we […]

FINE LINES: an aspirational manifesto for mental health liberation

like angels, we seek signs of evolving life at the end of the dank, dark, and isolating depressive tunnel like aztec warriors, monster queer muslim and sephardic cylon buddhas resist the proto-fascist cop-enforced kettle we seek solidarity and transcendent love: our sharpest tools in the quest to conquer our past […]

RECEPTIVE DISCIPLES: reflections on a second journey through the georgetown psych ward

hospitalized for the umpteenth time–i medicate my mind while i relax and unwind confined in these walls–in the georgetown psych ward visited by karmic angels i have loved and adored fire is a force: a living act of entropy–fueled by wax and oxygen–or by proto-manic gasoline within these walls so […]

THE CHOSEN

we walk amongst you incognito our powers waiting to be discovered we are evolving jedis in vitro conjuring the ammunition we need to be heard we are a neurodivergent army subterraneanly wired to rise up our cylon minds harmonize like a symphony a crescendo that your mind can fire up […]

ANATOMY OF A FIRE

carnal heat and tindered flame fill the air and call my name agents of karma take the stage anarchists evolving prefigurative ways love and rage fuse in a digital array a double helix carries our mutant dna crafting a path towards this system’s doomsday finding a path out of this […]

EVOLVING DIAGNOSIS CYLON-STYLE

our minds teem with divine and sentient seeds roving connecting bringing consciousness into being psychiatry forces neurodiversity into boxes consumed with pathologization and discredited logic discreet diagnoses overlap and interbreed creating a world full of NEOs we resist neoliberal hegemony and imagine new ways of sensing cosmic signals psychosocial distress […]

CATHARSIS

enraptured by this moment i see energy everywhere hieroglyphics coat the sidewalk and magical pixies dance with your hair emotional release and mutual aid are our most potent medications we need to heal our hearts and feed our souls reinventing this toxic nation legions of sisters are coming forward exposing […]

TRANSCENDENT POWER: the magical metaphysics of manic zen

breathing deep i feel my power—sensing my synapses hour by hour in this euphoric place i see so much—the porous boundaries between love, lust, and trust manic zen is the name i have crafted for this state—i feel energy in every neuron that animates by brain i focus the exponential […]

A SURVIVOR’S MANIFESTO

its been more than three years since i jumped off key bridge almost ending a life that at the time felt so tortured never consciously suicidal i was caught in a visceral panic attack following a dream that felt like a premonition of a torturous shift at the georgetown establishment […]

OF WORMHOLES AND NIRVANAS

flying high on dopamine i see visions in the sky hieroglyphics everywhere seducing my mind late at night when i close my eyes i see wormholes to distant galaxies we must resist the pathologization of our tribe’s neurodiversity i dream in staccato rhythms–refueling energy for the day ahead i am […]

TRANSCRIBING THE NIGHT

the light of distant stars refracts through our atmosphere crafting a tapestry ripe for exploration by our evolving imagination clouds morph and transform becoming new things and then disintegrating as quickly as they first cohered we remember our stories and our pasts but so often lose the moments if i […]

MANIC ZEN

it is excruciatingly late and i am wired…thoughts flowing fast like the currents of the nile pondering the mysteries of consciousness–examining the porous boundary between genius and psychosis this is not entirely new territory ever since my first mania i have wondered what to make of all these intense and […]

VERSES for UNGODLY HOURS

Night fills my veins Brain flies rewired Bordering insane Neurons flash untired Praying for creation Hastening evolution Beseeching elation Dreaming of revolution Blood flows recharged Eyes blink unthinking Going out and going hard Frontal lobe resyncing Hypomanic flying high Dopamine on overdrive Emphatically mesmerized Painfully addicted… To being more than […]