To Hell With This Town
Published July 21, 2025 · 1:01 · 21,200 views
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To hell with this town. In 12 hours this snow will be yellow and brown, then gray, then gone. Van maps the arc from one dream to the space between dreams. Not lost, but disoriented. His intuition speaks in cardinal directions. The quiet voice gives one-word answers, one at a time. Follow the word and the next word will come. The new dream whispers. Three minutes of compressed prose poetry. Felt like a diary page caught on camera.
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to hell with this town. In 12 hours, this snow will be yellow and brown, then gray, then gone.
The Americans talk about following dreams. The American dream is to live in a dream. This is the ambition of the
spirited man. To follow a dream and then to live in it. Having lived one dream, perhaps the spirited man in his intoxication neglected to dream another.
Perhaps he finds himself not lost but disoriented. Back in the fort. No more Park Avenue.
To hell with this town. To hell with the fort. Wiser now. The spirited man knows when to listen and knows how. He knows to listen for the quiet voice.
And that the quiet voice does not explain itself. The spirited man learns to lead his new dream. And his new dream whispers,