Quitting Lasts Forever
Trevor Abes: Writer
Category: Poetry
April 21, 2021
Catch me talking poetry and investing on Howl on CIUT 89.5 FM!
I was on the radio talking about and reading from my poetry collection, The Breakup Suite.
Howl’s host, Valentino Assenza, and I also cover some basics about investing and personal finance.
My interview starts around 43:00!
Howl episode April 20, 2021. (the episode will be available to listen/download until April 28)
Here’s me on Howl for the first time back in 2015.
April 2, 2021
Everything is Personal
There’s nothing personal about people
Gatekeeping their lives
Even if you cried at their weddings
Looked after their cats
Shared meals at their tables
Because everything is personal
Like looking with your eyes
And sleeping when you’re tired
Axioms
It’s what is called a universal lever
A free option you can call in
Soon as you find the strength to do yourself the favour
March 13, 2021
Turnaround
You don’t always have to choose the thinnest paperback
You can fan yourself out and play in caves where shadows don’t obfuscate the exit
You can see them again and prefer to save the effort of pushing through the crowd
Let the dog ears settle before you’re comfortable
With someone kissing on your mind again
The exchange rate from blinders to uninhibited senses is always favourable
Call that commitment instead
No more being stunned like cattle, the drive of genius displaced on people
Who will find the fine print in ride or die when it’s convenient
March 6, 2021
The View Between Your Fingers
I could tell
All I’d get
Was the foyer of you
Just kicks
Took each other home like reference only volumes
To maybe feel moved enough by something
To want more of it
Light particles changing costumes
Two verses translated as DNA
Holy water from a pipette
Applied with any style of prim
To feel rosy with a scientist’s trust in empirical evidence
Tops in time-capsule technology
Poetry with other consumable options
Besides quiet splendor
Like ingestible glow
Wearable sonorousness
Portable perspective
Draped over our particular frequencies
Of being in the world
March 4, 2021
Plunge
The people you happen to love only return it in kind if you’re lucky
It takes a lot of effort to commit to getting that carried away
A willingness to face the terror of saying hello
And them saying it back
And engaging the reckoning you seek
Somewhere deep inside there beyond awareness
The infinite vulnerability of talk
That’s only small because it carries within
The promise of intention
Of future formation
The kind of story you have to gauge
By how far it lives off the ground
Lest you have to shrink each other
In your minds to who you were
The second before whoever
Decided to bail and move
In a different direction
All of it hinging on discretion
Your economy of language
Practiced poverty at hiding and deciding
Oblivious to new constituents
In your version of the good life
—Liked what you read? Grab a book.
February 25, 2021
A letter of forgiveness to my mind
A letter of forgiveness to my mind
Here on out to be referred to as you
Some days you think like a Windows loading icon
The one with six dots running in a circle counter clockwise
They disappear every other trip round
Reappearing at the next moment
Like a rejected teleportation request
Some thoughts come back to me like these dots
Like someone in the corner of my eye
An IG photo keeping closure from hardening
I forgive you for them all
I forgive you for how they bore
As in perforate
The depth they reach
Taps me back into the factory setting
Boundaries, self-care, self-love
How I was thrown into the world
Thoughts racing, hands shaking
Howling to make music
Of the hardships I’d endured
—Liked what you read? Grab a book.
