Buddy Wakefield

Everyone has some they can't contain.

— Buddy Wakefield

Forte is French… for blanket fort.

— Buddy Wakefield

Love makes no mistakes.

— Buddy Wakefield

Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

— Buddy Wakefield

The future gets no say in who we are.

— Buddy Wakefield

You are the home I point to that lives in my chest.

— Buddy Wakefield

It takes a long time to make love with someone who hates themselves.

— Buddy Wakefield

I would fall in love with you if you would beat these people out of me.

— Buddy Wakefield

How honest is it that we drink until we are dehydrated?

— Buddy Wakefield

Put your ear to the sky and listen my darling, everything whispers I love you.

— Buddy Wakefield

“I'm gonna roll outta here one day, I just might not get to drive”

— Buddy Wakefield

Here's to today, slowing down, suspending judgment, and breast strokes through chaos.

— Buddy Wakefield

There was a typewriter buried alive in that horse, the one I road to get out of the flood.

— Buddy Wakefield

I’ve always resented the fact that when a cop drives by I feel paranoid instead of protected.

— Buddy Wakefield

I choose to politely ask myself to step aside if I am in my own way. If I do not get out…

— Buddy Wakefield

I choose to stay present, to unlearn how to unlove, to love, and to practice my worthiness of it.

— Buddy Wakefield

“It’s just that I coulda swore you had sung me a love song back there and that you meant it but I…

— Buddy Wakefield

If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity,…

— Buddy Wakefield

If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided…

— Buddy Wakefield

Stop congregating in the valley just because an echo sounds good when it agrees with itself.

— Buddy Wakefield

Tell me my heart beats a war drum that my eyes are not just armies but my spine is a harpoon.

— Buddy Wakefield

I keep forgetting to put focus on my to-do list. I keep forgetting to wander and have fun. I know I'm transparent…

— Buddy Wakefield

“Taking the time to write my way back Home, through any given space that might slip between me and Happiness, is my…

— Buddy Wakefield

You can call me an angry ghost when I'm gone, or laugh into my disposition. But my mom will still see me…

— Buddy Wakefield

The truth is that this universe is gassy and unpredictable. It still has not said excuse me for The Big Bang. Sometimes…

— Buddy Wakefield

I have heard that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica tuned to the key of…

— Buddy Wakefield

I should have told You before talking in terms of Forever that any given day wears me out and works me sour,…

— Buddy Wakefield

There are massive stacks of bad choices in my backyard. Haven't finished cleaning the place up but I'm workin' on it and…

— Buddy Wakefield

In the dream I was onstage and there were thousands of you goin’ bananas for me, all laughing and clapping, celebrating your…

— Buddy Wakefield

“We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost but tonight let us not become tragedies. We…

— Buddy Wakefield

This is an apology letter to the both of us for how long it took me to let things go. It was…

— Buddy Wakefield

“Listen, I know there were days you wanted to die when the sky was so clear you’d stand obnoxious underneath it begging…

— Buddy Wakefield

There are moments of clarity daily. They open me up with a breath and keep me calm. They feed me the answers.…

— Buddy Wakefield

On the face of her phone Wileen programs a message to herself so that when the alarm clock rings the screen flashes:…

— Buddy Wakefield

“Dear Angry Older People, over 21-ish, anyone who considers themselves an adult, still bitter: Next time you're wondering what wrong with kids…

— Buddy Wakefield

“I no longer need you to fuck me as hard as I hated myself.”

— Buddy Wakefield

We both spend our money on things that break too easily like… people.

— Buddy Wakefield

Every moment is a brand new baby, Baby. Every vow is a brave new voice.

— Buddy Wakefield

Listen, I’m not entirely comfortable being human.

— Buddy Wakefield

And I know I’m not perfect. But I believe I was meant to be.

— Buddy Wakefield