“I want everybody to recognize that we are all human beings, that we all face the same human experiences, and with that mindset, we can learn how to come together and help each other out.“
Eating Dopamine
He eats dopamine for breakfast,
he eats dopamine for lunch,
he eats dopamine for dinner, and
he eats dopamine at midnight.
He gets hungrier when he’s thirsting,
imbibing wrong conclusions.
He found a delicacy, lying in the dirt
and oh, he took a bite.
He was eating dopamine with ten-year-old discoveries.
He was eating dopamine on first web encounters.
He was eating dopamine to fight depression, loss.
He was eating dopamine and getting hungrier.
One man faked a few injuries
but he couldn’t fake the electrician’s chair.
One man made a few slaves,
they were never seen for years.
Another man caught her by herself in her room ,
swore a secret and had his way,
not even a decade in, she was destroyed.
All of them were eating dopamine.
He’s eating dopamine
because dopamine is eating him.
He’s out in the world hunting
like a hyena or a vulture,
every day eating at the feast
laid out for millions like him.
When the food never runs out,
how can we ever expect to change the culture?
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Philip Corley, at 28 years old, has lived in the Lexington area his whole life, and has developed a fondness for the city he has always called home. He graduated in 2011 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, but was unable to continue his schooling beyond that. However, his true passion has been writing. He started writing poetry while he was still in high school over ten years ago. Despite doing it for so long, he has only recently started going public with his work, with hopes to be getting a collection together soon for publication. Along with the poetry, Philip has also been working on a fantasy novel, the first in a series he has spent years planning. Until these projects take off, Philip finds work as a manager at a fast food restaurant. Philip has been attending the Gauntlet Poetry Class, hosted by Christopher McCurry, learning more about the craft. He hopes that this class will help him find the best way to balance his increasingly demanding job with his goals as a writer to be most productive with his time.
