“
Shit Cafés
I started avoiding beautiful places as they attracted people.
Too many people:
The seaside
Botanic gardens
Quaint country towns...
So, I started going to shit cafes, sat in back alleyways.
Until the shit cafés closed down because no one was going
”
”
Darby Hudson (A Mountain of Tiny Courages)
“
Today I had a lovely afternoon nap in the Melbourne cemetery.
Just practising.
”
”
Darby Hudson (Falling Upwards)
“
time is loaded with endless night;
sleep is a velvet gunshot to the head
a star splattered sky.
”
”
Darby Hudson (Falling Upwards)
“
If you try and go to sleep,
you can’t go to sleep:
you’ve just got to let it happen.
Same goes with flying.
”
”
Darby Hudson (100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST)
“
A small red spider scurries across the
glow of my phone’s screen.
For a second I think I can screenshot it,
then remember the loveliest things
can never be saved.
”
”
Darby Hudson (100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST)
“
I rarely check my bank balance –
instant anxiety attack.
I never have enough, I think, as
I open my wallet full of nothing but
leaves and pebbles
to pay for watching the
moon.
”
”
Darby Hudson (100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST)
“
I often don’t know what I think
until I write or say it –
until it becomes separate from myself.
”
”
Darby Hudson (100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST)
“
Money buys you a roof,
poetry buys you a floor
so you don’t fall through
the nights
”
”
Darby Hudson (100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST)
“
Don’t stare up at the sky for too long or
you’ll fall into it.
So, one day I packed my bags and
stood outside staring
upward.
”
”
Darby Hudson (100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST)
“
You make me want to go out on a boat and paint light on a river
”
”
Darby Hudson (100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST)
“
Sometimes A Fuck Up Isn’t Really A Fuck Up
It’s the angel
on the shoulder
of the devil
on your shoulder.
”
”
Darby Hudson (100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST)
“
One day I’ll meet my reputation in person.
And I’ll ask it if it would
like to have an ice-cream with me up
my favourite tree…
and of course, it will tell me to
get fucked.
”
”
Darby Hudson (100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST)