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No caption needed. #ohfather @madonna

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While being gaslit by my family and bullied into isolation, I reflected a lot on my creative endeavors over the years. Unfortunately for them and their supporting cast, isolating me was where they got it wrong With more time in seclusion, it became increasingly clear that, collectively, my creative manifestations were the key to unlocking the riddle forced upon me, to recouping the memories erased from me noggin by hypnosis back in 1978. Behind every poem, essay, song, story, and video was a 7 year old boy leaving footprints in the snow, pleading for me to wake up to maze entrapping me. As an example, in addition to some snippets below, for the attached video I leveraged off some audio that I recorded back in 2010, leading up to my 40th birthday, However horrific to go through, I’m actually grateful for the experience. In reflection, it was as if I was living a fairytale in realtime… where Sleeping Beauty is a bald, pudgy, socially awkward middle aged man with a stripper pole that smokes cigarettes. 🥴💅 “Time to Play” - 1985 The wind on my face blows so cold, I dedicate this poem to a man 40 years old. One day this man will write about a teenager and his courageous fight. He’ll look at me, smile and say, “We made it, kid. Time to play.” “Chronicles of the Boy in the Bubble” - April 2020 In difficult times, isolation has been my go to, while my imagination has been the ethereal hot air ballon that lifts me away to distant lands, where dragons survey the skies, cellar doors open wormholes to other dimensions, and a magic poem can transport me back in time. “The Haunting of Damon Wallace” - Memorial Day 2021 I never considered myself the haunting kind, but lately I’ve found myself revisiting some ghosts of birthdays past through old creative endeavors of mine…. As if astral projecting through space and time, I found myself reliving those periods of my life and tapped into emotions long since felt. I saw my past looking back at me, the man of the future, and remembered dreams unfulfilled. #timetoplay

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Strong emphasis on making it through the wilderness. 💪😵‍💫✨ #likeavirgin @madonna