"Infant animals separated from their mothers can be soothed by low doses of narcotics, just as if it were actual physical pain they were enduring.

The pain pathways in humans are no different. The very same brain centers that interpret and 'feel' physical pain also become activated during the experience of emotional rejection: on brain scans they 'light up' in response to social ostracism just as they would when triggered by physically harmful stimuli. When people speak of feeling 'hurt' or having emotional 'pain', they are not being abstract but scientifically quite precise" - Gabor Mate, In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts


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I don't drink my happiness away
I drink to keep the pain at bay

The Keys of Lost Paradise

Abuse, insecurity, shadow undealt with
blunt smoke unkept, drinking unslept

roll of the dice
how fucking nice
I crapped out again

Last Days of Reality
5 deaths at the capital

I was down and out at a kava bar
Thinking how am I gonna get out of this (shit)

St. Pete, what is thee?
fuck if I know, just
speakeasy my friend

found the heart of the city
Down and out (again)

I know what happened to us
but there is a different story to tell

That I actually achieved what you
always thought I was gonna achieve

on day 3 I turn the speakeasy into the Imaginarium
dreaming of delta cart with Cube,
giving a push to a young kid grinding away at the wheel of creativity
I didn't care that I wasn't on the list for open mic night
I said fuck it and read my poem anyways
I cried as I read it, and everyone who could hear me
felt it, this was no bullshit, I left blood on the floor
go outside of speakeasy, you can see where I left my mark

Kicking me out into the streets
thinking what I can't handle St. Pete?
It only took me hours before I found the others
and within days we are creating the weird

it's important to develop your spots
and spots together, or else you're really stuck
isolated, dislocated, and rationalizing your existence...

On the real SpeakEasy 24hr Kava bar, saved my life...
https://speakeasykavabar.com/