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The Voice

you can interpret it many ways, the significance of the voice. i spent an afternoon with my boy and experienced a revelation that came back full circle. — law of equivalent exchange. everything costs something. women. growth. ambition. the question was never what do you want? what are you willing to exchange for it? i know my price. i know what isn’t for sale. the world operates dirty. i don’t need it to operate like me. righteousness is being able to live with the man who made the choice when there’s nobody left to explain it to. — life changed the question again. growth doesn’t stop when you understand yourself. i got three books that disagree with each other and every one of them was telling the truth. i left old consciousness between covers and kept living. there are versions of me that only exist now because i gave them somewhere to exist forever. thoughts i once called truth became evidence of transformation. every answer gave life ano...

Love Test

  Love Test my old man could warn me about women. — my mother could tell me which ones to leave alone. — my boys could swear they know how they operate. — every man got a story about the one he should’ve seen coming. — so i listen. — but love has always been a terrible student of advice. — you can check her history. meet her friends. watch how she treats the waiter. — see what happens when another man enters the room. — ask about the last one. and the one before him. — listen closely when she tells you why they failed. — there are signs. — there are always signs. — but signs only tell you where somebody has been. — not where they’ll take you. — and that’s the gamble. — because the sweetest face can bring the bitterest lesson. — and the woman everybody warned you about might be the only one who ever tells you the truth. — so what am i supposed to test? — her loyalty? — loyalty doesn’t mean much unt...