Street Poems Quotes

“she said
i want you to
meet him
you'll like him
really

yeah
i thought
like car crash
broken glass
rusty razored underwear
barbed wire cheer
acid fear
like walking down
normandie
naked
nightly
like tiger claws 'n
earthquake falls
i'll
really relish meeting 'm.”
― Scott C. Holstad, Street Poems

“There’s this space in our lives that we attempt to fill with more space and the nothingness grows larger while our lives get smaller, a fact we can’t seem to accept very well. So, we take walks and we work and we go to movies and basketball games and church and we Exist in our nothing lives and when we die a speech is made and we are forgotten once again, only more permanently this time.”
― Scott C. Holstad, Street Poems

“seeing is believing they say and if boundaries are limitless are we? or is existence twofold and doomed before the sights are set and if so does God really weep for humanity and must we continue to seek sustenance through escapism and do sporting events in all their microcosmic glory refute the tenets of nihilism or should we simply accept and wallow in our ignorance unbearable lightness of being creatures who feel what -- I don’t know”
― Scott C. Holstad, Street Poems

“People tend to get nervous when you stare at them. They are racked with enough insecurities as it is. They always look away, glance back quickly and look away again. Some part of them melts and as they attempt to gather themselves, their flesh forms puddles at their feet.”
― Scott C. Holstad, Street Poems