How to Be Alone People ask me: Lefty, how do you do so much alone? First step - pick a place - it's just you and your phone. The park, coffee shop - you, yourself, and a mug Your arms can hold you too if you're in of need a hug Next step, different place, but it's you and a book No one knows if you're reading, so who cares if they look? This time, don't scroll - let the clock 'tik tok' Next thing you know, you spent hours in your new reading spot Now, pick a movie, no one knows you're by...

"you're kind of punk rock, aren't you?" with a smile on her face i smiled at my boots instead of looking into her eyes my boots have been a major point of contention strangers confident to ask me why i would wear them if - and they point to the blazing sun as if it hasn't darkened my skin to the deepest tone i've ever seen or they look up from a temperature widget on a phone Steve Jobs wouldn't have recognized as a lost generation distant from his first brain children the laces are from...

You gotta touch grass, she said with a smile I said - "yeah girl, it has been a while" I stay in my head, the doom and gloom brews I forget to eat, cry 'bout the news "The revolution will not be televised" was not just about the views He was saying to make changes, you have to start with you. Jackson said it too, to the man in the mirror And now that I'm healing, I see it clearer You can tear down a system, break through the walls But where you go, there you are - and that energy stalls...