Just Perfect, Another Quiet Room.
Publisher Description
Just Perfect, Another Quiet Room.
A collection of poems about underperforming—
not the kind that collapses loudly,
not the kind that leaves wreckage people point at,
but the quiet kind.
The kind that looks like
being almost on time
but never early enough to matter.
Like sitting in the back of a room
in a chair that folds too easily,
wondering when you started choosing places
that were meant to be temporary.
Rooms you never imagined for yourself.
Rooms with soft voices,
half-confessions,
and stories that sound distant—
until one sentence lands too close
and suddenly
you’re not just listening anymore.
You’re remembering.
These are poems about quiet failures—
the kind that don’t interrupt your life,
they become it.
About almost trying.
Almost changing.
Almost becoming someone
you wouldn’t have to explain.
About the space between intention and action,
where days go to repeat themselves
and you learn how easy it is
to live a life that never fully starts.
And still—
there is something here
that refuses to disappear.
Because it takes a strange kind of courage
to sit in those rooms,
to hear your own thoughts
echo louder than anyone else speaking,
and still decide to stay.
To say your name
when your voice doesn’t feel like yours yet.
To admit you’ve been absent
from your own life
without knowing exactly when you left.
This is not a story about failure.
It’s about someone
learning how to sit with himself
long enough
to stop running from the silence—
and realizing,
he never left the room.
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The continuation of:
All Because My Stupid Mind Couldn’t Think,
To Paint The Sky Blue With Our Skin,
and Before the Feeling Ends.