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Vinyl, Knives, and Eye Contact: A Love Story that isn’t.

Chemo at Dawn: Fighting Cancer When the System Fails You

Schedule I Is a Lie, and It’s Killing Us

Smoke and Saints. Sofia After Dark

How I’m Fighting Stage 4 Cancer Without Playing by the Rules

The Morning Shit That Lied to Me (poop talk)

When the Clown Car Flips. The Looming Danger of a Cornered Donald Trump

Stay lit, motherfucker

The Sunrise Goddess, Every God I Met Was High

Cannabliss

gods don’t sleep here anymore

Building the Future of Cancer Care and Why I’m Launching Vital Roots

we fucked like gods

Patient-Led “Press-Pulse” Metabolic Cancer Protocol

Rise.

Facing the Death Sentence with No Silver Lining

No Rides Left in Kolkata a Trip Through Chaos, Chai, and Sound

Good Things Happen When You Smile, or When You’re Naked (The Gods Are Still High)

Why Your Substack Posts Aren’t Showing Up in Google (and How to Fix It)

Naked, Tripping, and Hunting Stars in the Oregon Woods

Trestles and Ghosts

Every God I’ve Met Was High: The God of L’s and Broken Beats

Every God I’ve Met Was High: The God Who Loved Too Loud

Mirrors and Rituals

Pardons, Payoffs, and MAGA Betrayal

Midnight Thoughts from the Cancer Research Center

Let the Empire Choke: Mamdani, Socialism, and the Death Rattle of the Old Guard

Every God I’ve Met Was High: The God Who Left the Bong Burning

Every God I’ve Met Was High: The Gospel of Burnt Jukeboxes

The High-Stakes Reality of RSO in a Non-Legal State

The Cancer Diary: A Smart Journal System to Outmaneuver Disease

To the Last Fucking Breath

Kill Switch Juice: The Ultimate Cancer-Fighting Green Juice That Won’t Spike Your Blood Sugar

Kill Switch Protocol.

I’m Not Fighting Cancer. I’m Fighting a System

Metabolic Fight, Emotional Train Wreck

How I’m Fighting Stage 4 Cancer with Metabolic Therapy, Cannabis, and Chemo

The Floor, the Breakdown, and the Climb Back: My Recent Thoughts on Depression

Notes From The Fire Escape Poetry

Good Things Happen When You Smile, or When You’re Naked (The Gods Are Still High)

A goddess once worshiped for wisdom shows up barefoot, high, and half-naked, here to remind you truth isn’t polite, it’s primal.

Duane Cummins July 4, 2025

Notes From The Fire Escape Poetry

Every God I’ve Met Was High: The God of L’s and Broken Beats

He’s not saving souls, just lighting blunts and keeping the rhythm alive in a godless world.

Duane Cummins June 29, 2025

Notes From The Fire Escape Poetry

Every God I’ve Met Was High: The God Who Loved Too Loud

He was the patron saint of broken hearts and bong rips, showing up stoned with a lighter, a limp prayer, and nothing left to lose.

Duane Cummins June 29, 2025

Notes From The Fire Escape Poetry

Mirrors and Rituals

A raw, defiant, dread. Stubborn pride collide.

Duane Cummins June 29, 2025

Notes From The Fire Escape Poetry

Every God I’ve Met Was High: The God Who Left the Bong Burning

A poem soaked in smoke, heartbreak, and divine indifference.

Duane Cummins June 25, 2025

Notes From The Fire Escape Poetry

Every God I’ve Met Was High: The Gospel of Burnt Jukeboxes

Where gods crawl through sand and stardust, and the universe runs on scrolls.

Duane Cummins June 25, 2025

Trestles and Ghosts

Trestles and Ghosts

A lyrical ride through Southern California’s iconic break, where memory, solitude, and the sea crash together.

Duane Cummins June 29, 2025

Every God I’ve Met Was High: The God of L’s and Broken Beats

Every God I’ve Met Was High: The God of L’s and Broken Beats

He’s not saving souls, just lighting blunts and keeping the rhythm alive in a godless world.

Duane Cummins June 29, 2025

Every God I’ve Met Was High: The God Who Loved Too Loud

Every God I’ve Met Was High: The God Who Loved Too Loud

He was the patron saint of broken hearts and bong rips, showing up stoned with a lighter, a limp prayer, and nothing left to lose.

Duane Cummins June 29, 2025

Mirrors and Rituals

Mirrors and Rituals

A raw, defiant, dread. Stubborn pride collide.

Duane Cummins June 29, 2025

Pardons, Payoffs, and MAGA Betrayal

Pardons, Payoffs, and MAGA Betrayal

A hard look at the GOP’s love affair with corruption, Trump’s selective pardons, and how the base gets left in the dirt.

Duane Cummins June 27, 2025

Midnight Thoughts from the Cancer Research Center

Midnight Thoughts from the Cancer Research Center

One man’s heartbreak over what America has become, and the grifter who broke it.

Duane Cummins June 27, 2025

Let the Empire Choke: Mamdani, Socialism, and the Death Rattle of the Old Guard

Let the Empire Choke: Mamdani, Socialism, and the Death Rattle of the Old Guard

When politics are this broken, it’s not radical to want better, it’s survival. A rant on Mamdani, socialist dread, and why the centrist elite are the real extremists now.

Duane Cummins June 25, 2025

Every God I’ve Met Was High: The God Who Left the Bong Burning

Every God I’ve Met Was High: The God Who Left the Bong Burning

A poem soaked in smoke, heartbreak, and divine indifference.

Duane Cummins June 25, 2025

Every God I’ve Met Was High: The Gospel of Burnt Jukeboxes

Every God I’ve Met Was High: The Gospel of Burnt Jukeboxes

Where gods crawl through sand and stardust, and the universe runs on scrolls.

Duane Cummins June 25, 2025

The High-Stakes Reality of RSO in a Non-Legal State

The High-Stakes Reality of RSO in a Non-Legal State

Why managing your cancer treatment shouldn’t require breaking the law, or your body.

Duane Cummins June 24, 2025

Notes From The Fire Escape

Vinyl, Knives, and Eye Contact: A Love Story that isn’t.

Duane Cummins July 22, 2025

Notes From The Fire Escape

Chemo at Dawn: Fighting Cancer When the System Fails You

Duane Cummins July 21, 2025

Notes From The Fire Escape

Schedule I Is a Lie, and It’s Killing Us

Duane Cummins July 20, 2025

Notes From The Fire Escape

Smoke and Saints. Sofia After Dark

Duane Cummins July 20, 2025