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    I Did DMT and Talked to my Cancer

    August 29, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    A brutal, hallucinogenic face-off with cancer at 6:30 a.m.

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    Ashes, Wind, and the Monkey God

    August 24, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    The monkey god, fire and wind incarnate, devotion sharpened into power.

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    I Am Beating This. Also My Oncologist Can Suck a Dick

    August 19, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    How metabolic warfare, fasting, and cannabis became my strategy to outlive stage 4 cancer, and why the real enemy is the system.

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    The Final Lines

    August 11, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    Writers Who Didn’t Make It Out Alive.

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    Every Angel I’ve Loved Was Bleeding. Kali in the Motel Room

    August 10, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    A fever-dream encounter with a goddess who dismantles you to set you free.

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    Cancer Isn’t Fair. Fight Dirty.

    August 9, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    What I’ve learned about managing your own fight when the diagnosis says you won’t make it.

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    Life Gave You Lemons? Make That Shit Lemonade!

    August 5, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    How to take the worst life throws at you, grind it into pulp, and raise a glass like a champion.

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  • Notes From The Fire Escape - Poetry

    Reentry Wounds

    August 1, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    A poem scraped from the edge. About falling, freedom, and the scars we wear like medals.

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  • Notes From The Fire Escape - Politics

    The Workers Are the Revolution That Will Never Come

    July 30, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    Anarcho-syndicalism could’ve saved us. But we’re too selfish, too scared, and too far gone.

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    The Second Ladybug

    July 29, 2025 - By Duane Cummins

    A poem for the messengers that crawl in when no one else can reach you.

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