Buddy Wakefield Quotes & Sayings

Forte is French ... for blanket fort. — Buddy Wakefield

I'm gonna roll outta here one day, I just might not get to drive — Buddy Wakefield

Make love to me
like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.
Go slow.
I'm new to this. — Buddy Wakefield

I'm no longer interested in watching you rise from the falls you keep taking in vain just for a reason to stand. — Buddy Wakefield

Well this is me without my prozac, and this is me just shy of nicotine, and mother fuckers, it's my second time to fail anger management class. — Buddy Wakefield

Everybody knows that smiling is for little girls, the gays and certain kinds of fish who are smiling by accident. — Buddy Wakefield

What children
and the landing of a plane
most have in common
is that they are best made
by a line drive of pilot lights guided
through a single tambourine
across the day we met
in a field of wet metal hands on The Gospel of Lightning. — Buddy Wakefield

On the face of her phone
Wileen programs a message to herself
so that when the alarm clock rings
the screen flashes:
EVERY DAY IS ONE DAY LESS.
EVERY DAY IS ONE DAY LESS.
For some people
happiness
it's just a reduction in suffering.
Jordan.
Jordan tattoos the words
FORGIVE ME
in thick black letters
down the inside of his arm
so that when he looks at his wrist
he will remember not to hate himself so much.
What he keeps forgetting
is that there is life after survival. — Buddy Wakefield

Let your head climb back down through your throat and into your body so it can see just how good you look when you're not compared to anything. — Buddy Wakefield

We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost. — Buddy Wakefield

And if we really do get what we give,
then I give up,
so I can get up — Buddy Wakefield

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

If I didn't have so much of this life all wrong I would have gotten it right by now. — Buddy Wakefield

You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from. — Buddy Wakefield

Hearts don't break, y'all. They bruise and get better. — Buddy Wakefield

There is life after survival. — 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 today, you might wanna check the examples you've been giving us to work with. Because if you ever want to make sense of us, you've got to make sense to us, without telling us you're too old to walk that far. You've got to try to understand why we like looking like rag dolls, why we like looking like the way we feel, and why we keep our senses floored when it's you behind the wheel. And if you ever really do want to understand why we seem so angry, well for one, you told us we could be anything we wanted to be, but right now, we're a little busy dodging bombs. — 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, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself. — Buddy Wakefield

I no longer need you to fuck me as hard as I hated myself. — Buddy Wakefield

Everything is out there. That's why they call it everything. — 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 tough questions. — Buddy Wakefield

I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better. — Buddy Wakefield

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common
is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out. — 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 clearly I have not yet reached enlightenment
for more than a fleeting moment
but I'm tryin'
and I found somethin' here I want ya to have.
It's not much
just a story
but it's all I've got
so take it. — Buddy Wakefield

I choose to politely ask myself to step aside if I am in my own way. If I do not get out of my way, I choose to call a friend who will have me removed. — Buddy Wakefield

Listen, I'm not entirely comfortable being human. — Buddy Wakefield

Lord, let me write,
leave me autistic and typing
until my windows bust into a thousand silver doves
and I know the poem is done. — Buddy Wakefield

Knowing me is easy. You can still twist your hair and feel silly. Look up the word tacky and have a salad. But when we're together you pull bread apart with your fingers into bites sometimes so small I gotta remind you, Peach, it is okay to be hungry. — 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

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

You're a free-standing landing pad held together by choir claps. — Buddy Wakefield

This is an apology letter to the both of us for how long it took me to let things go. — Buddy Wakefield

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

How honest is it that we drink until we are dehydrated? — Buddy Wakefield

The future gets no say in who we are. — Buddy Wakefield

Step into this experience
with the goose bumps
in your heartbeat — Buddy Wakefield

Others, with halos shaped like rollercoasters you'd stand in line to ride twice. — Buddy Wakefield

I've seen fish hooked who keep more patience in their worst gill than some of you have in your best moods. If you were a sandwich at McDonalds, they'd call you the McGrump. — Buddy Wakefield

The best songs are the ones about Georgia, even though I've never been there. It's the only place I still believe in Jesus. — Buddy Wakefield

We both spend our money on things that break too easily like ... people. — 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 as her wide-eyed wanderer out behind the garage inventing ways to fend off dog attacks that will probably never happen. — Buddy Wakefield

I should have told You
before talking in terms of Forever
that any given day wears me out and works me sour,
that there are nights when the sky is so clear
I stand obnoxious underneath it
begging for the stars to shoot at me
just so I can feel at Home. — Buddy Wakefield

In the dream I was onstage and there were thousands of you goin' bananas for me, all laughing and clapping, celebrating your brains out, not because I was somethin' else up there, but because you were just so happy I was finally starting to get it. — Buddy Wakefield

Everyone has some they can't contain. — Buddy Wakefield

I have realized that the moon
did not have to be full for us to love it.
That we are not tragedies
stranded here beneath 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 guess sometimes people just chew with their mouth open — Buddy Wakefield

The truth is that this universe is gassy and unpredictable.
It still has not said excuse me for The Big Bang.
Sometimes we expect too much instead of practicing enough
or receiving in us just the right answer.
You, the Staggering Answer — Buddy Wakefield

The first time my town saw the sky it sucker-punched us in the throat, left us breathless, said, I'm gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You'll make it up, the pain, you always do. — Buddy Wakefield

I don't care to be good, Sheriff. I care to be whole. — Buddy Wakefield

I'm ready to kill something. I'll probably only get as far as my brain cells, but I am going to kill them. — Buddy Wakefield

Love makes no mistakes. — Buddy Wakefield

I keep forgetting to put focus on my to-do list. — Buddy Wakefield

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

There is a point when tears don't work to wash things away anymore. Grabbing for breath has now broken my fingers. — Buddy Wakefield

And I know I'm not perfect. But I believe I was meant to be. — Buddy Wakefield