BYPO

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CLEAN DATE: a bypo journal

February 26thIs just a dateA marker in timeAn outpost amidst psychic wildlings For me it is my clean dateToday—my two year anniversaryTwo years without drugs, including alcoholTwo years of recoveryTwo years of spiritual growt The valence of my mental oscillations is manageableI am more stable and connected than I have […]

TRAUMA SURVIVORS ANONYMOUS: a bypo journal

I sit by the water—I came here to writeThe river ebbs and flows and pulsates with energyIt reverberates with the power to sustain life and the power to take it… I came to write about my mindto write about the social construct known as bipolar disorderThis diagnosis has been an […]

QUEER VIXEN

your eyes are cylon portals to the titanic force of your heart and soulno mere mortal, you are a vixen, destined to conspire to transform our world and make us feel whole genderqueer you defy systemic boundaries, letting transpower flow through your armsyou are a field marshal in our androgyne […]

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 […]

DUALITIES

good and bad-right and wrong ancient mores transcribed in songs queer and straight–trans and cis we can find common ground as we rise and resist war and peace fused together with orwell’s flair we are living through an age of existential mortal peril with so much myth uproooted and so […]

INSURRECTION: a hard house anthem of resistance

we are the ones we’ve been waiting for we are a people becoming an army knocking on destiny’s door we aspire to become living gods or at least to become more we throw down to the house beat driving our armored boots into the floor cosmology and astrology conjure reborn […]

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 […]

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 […]