By Bruno Talerico

  • Get On With It

    life’s not easy,stop trying to make it so.life’s not fair, never was,isn’t now, never will be.climb out of that entitlement trap.stop feeling like you’re a victim.you are not.life’s not easy,get over it!get on with it!define your success, thenput in the work to maintain ittend your garden daily.nurture the important, weed out the rest.our most valuable…

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  • Breathe It Down

    your agenda doesn’t mean shitshe is all aroundshe is beautiful, suck her inbreathe her down to your crotchshe’s therewaiting on the other sideshe could just as soon kill youcould eat you alivebeautiful bitchwhy separatego to her embrace herbreathe it downgo to the other sidemaybe you’ll be golden lightpost mortemspiritual practiceswill not save youthere is no…

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  • Stuck In The Middle

    having travelled a long way with more still to gomeans we are always somewhere in betweenalways between places we’ve been and places yet to be seenalways between people we’ve known and those we haven’t metalways between birthand the afterlife© 2025 Bruno TalericoStafford challenge 182/365.

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  • Sky Full Of Stars

    in the sky full of stars are you another one of the distracting multitude, or are you the one with the gravitational pull to keep me grounded? © 2025 Bruno Talerico Stafford challenge 181/365.

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  • Literary Idolatry

    If I were to slip a book to all children,it would be a book so slipperythat it slides them into a new domain,not of ideas, but of experiences and feelings.Money is not real, consumable wealth.A book is not life. Idolizing a single book is like eating paper currency. The use of a book, is to…

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  • Eavesdropping

    who are they,and where do they come from,those voices inside my head?eavesdropping, i hear thoughts unbidden,sometimes sweet harmonies of angels,others raucous, raunchy songs of of demons.eavesdropping, soft voices reciting free verse,controlled voices recounting stories of imagination,dreamy voices narrating streams of consciousness. eavesdropping,voices clear and hectoring,sometimes nurturing , often mulishly contentious eliciting no secrets, only indiscretions.never…

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  • Accumulation

    A common synonym for hemorrhoids is the word ‘piles’Rooms crowded with junkunused furniture and bric a brac,piles of musty manuals,knick-knacks and trinketshomes filled with profuse materiality,create a turbid, turgid topography.Minds filled with wanton busyness,cluttered with extraneous thoughts, gossip,old emotional burdens and past traumacreate internal turmoil,a malicious troll, always lurking.We often surround ourselveswith disorganized objectsand casual…

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  • Monsoon Moisture

    sunrise over the mountainred sky at morninginspiring wonder glorious morningnatural masterpiecesanother cycle fluffy clouds pass byno rain ‘til monsoon seasonis desert’s humor dawning summer dayhorizon of monsoon cloudscooling storms ahead raindrops fall like tearsnourishing a parched desertwild flowers soon bloom dust devils swirlingsmell and taste desert lightningnature’s energy © 2025 Bruno TalericoStafford challenge 177/365.A group…

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  • Contamination

    Why are there so many expressionsin the English language about balancing vulnerability and protection?How do I trust the faithfulness of otherswhile at the same time avoiding deception?I sit watching the long shadows of the early morning lightwhile reflecting on the eventsof last night.“A burnt child dreads the fire.”Wakened from peaceful slumberby the incessant screaming of…

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  • Magniloquent

    Without rational observation,where is truth?Magniloquent man of ether,resentful of women,neglectful of evidence,experimentation alarmsand scientific theoryenrages him.Kept very busyunder the guiseof worthwhile business,seated in gilded ovoidon Pennsylvania Avenue,he loves only a circus.Whenever his mouth opensit sounds like a parodyof poor statesmanship.His uncanny abilityis to live a life undisturbedby evidence or humanity.Is there a more wearisome taskthan…

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