<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:43:01 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@paintingangels/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Breaking]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am lost. My mirrors can’t even find me. I read Plath and Sexton and I recognize their sorrow. I listen to Elliott Smith and I get it. I hear the melancholy sighs in his songs even when he isn’t literally]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/sadness/@paintingangels/breaking</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/sadness/@paintingangels/breaking</guid><category><![CDATA[sadness]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:35:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjW4PvRk9nXC1RsHWxNoWjhqsdMpcQkktYYSjUB9oowtPi5B3GeYJ2vNtTdp7f7PmfYvvpxxXrGT3JbDNH1sC3dg1YEovc8AecjWTXQAYV1pJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daybreak]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imaginary kisses Sandpaper wishes Your breath on my whisper My heart fold its hand. Lost in our doorway I stand like a scarecrow Shivering like Winter, I can’t find my way There are drugs in the kitchen]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/diary/@paintingangels/2vnybq-hello-again</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/diary/@paintingangels/2vnybq-hello-again</guid><category><![CDATA[diary]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 03:00:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjW4PvRk9nXC1RsHWxNoWjhqsdMpcQidecNy7WKYEBFUekfsEoxhAhuA3WGj5VEHw19S7wBw38QFFfdNftEtkUrdA3waYZeacK3hsHSLMdtra?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hello again]]></title><description><![CDATA[So, I tried threads. It was nice until election day. (Unfuckingbelievable.) I called it the day before that he would win, and said some things which ruffled feathers on all sides. People are assholes when]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/diary/@paintingangels/hello-again</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/diary/@paintingangels/hello-again</guid><category><![CDATA[diary]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2024 21:58:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjW4PvRk9nXC1RsHWxNoWjhqsdMpcQjhZTtyQ8YHiFr51G9Fw4HHZzqnPhE2Azn1jekBCMshpHfed9UjEfntJMArVUuCyDnPj9MUqNbrh1mTt?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heya]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hi. It’s been awhile. Just thought I would say hi to anyone who still might be around from 4 or 5 years ago. Probably, I am alone here again. Anyway. That’s about all. I work at a photography studio now,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hello/@paintingangels/heya</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hello/@paintingangels/heya</guid><category><![CDATA[hello]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 02:53:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/JvFFVmatwWHT5Fvr9KYC2gxEN3P7oD11Skv4rcBD65rj5s9PaHX6ykwpCJmZuXfyXhw1PRyoPDuYozEFgPPFtADBHkjkbj21VqijQEkMJizofv7bK5D7Bb4JEUkLxnBuU35FNCfkYN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliest November]]></title><description><![CDATA[You are my trigger, I’ve been shot. But I’m not dead, sir. (Not quite yet) Vows empty, our promises are sinking into the well, our wishing Hell. My knees are broken from crawling slowly back to you, every]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/sadness/@paintingangels/loneliest-november</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/sadness/@paintingangels/loneliest-november</guid><category><![CDATA[sadness]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 03:48:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7b4bio5hobgtGQKeTeQ5JNjSU3Frvf7Drq4NwrGoCGhvSDbPo1g8g78vqSAE54Xp2KGeKFnk1StGcoLVUbCoPUwNJGpRhHDthHEEsriBmHvqmCA5vThdKM6TPeWWRuwx15k9aTSdvv4LQnbRo3Hpg9yWAzMc?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Left]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’m still here but Are you? Do you hide in the basement of my abused mind? Why can’t I remember our first conversation? Did I start it? Did you? Why can’t I recall? Do you want me to forget you? Do you]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@paintingangels/left</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@paintingangels/left</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2022 00:39:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7b4bio5hobgtGQKeTeQ5JNjSU3Frvf7Drq4NwrGaUu5eHc3jCKNzhvF65BZ3azK6vcZ6fU7JQxfH4nKGurAjzQ2YSkwVX2tNdDAti2mWAonBJqe458DqZ51zFCrV7YYon9z9bhuB3RwpZSxWuowkNoNnkdpA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gypsy]]></title><description><![CDATA[I see her come around some nights when most of us are gone her eyes like tiny emeralds hold glints of things unkown She never says a word to us sits sipping on her wine Silently and pleasantly She loves]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@paintingangels/the-gypsy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@paintingangels/the-gypsy</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2022 20:07:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7b4bio5hobgtGQKeTeQ5JNjSU3Frvf7Drq4NwrGgDtK16SDScJj7dJw5BoxK8AHuECxXAXCvonUq1LsBki4mbzGwc94dZg1UmcQXuZ8WJeFw3a3umbdkYUHvx2dtvNt6Pg4pJDdb7uyetRXVykdDbHFVhUXG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fires working]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stars that aren’t stars are screaming in the shadows and I hate them. Colors bleeding like death fall to the ground and disappear but it’s not the end yet. More are falling soon. A woman wept in her driveway.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@paintingangels/fires-working</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@paintingangels/fires-working</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2022 02:34:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7b4bio5hobgtGQKeTeQ5JNjSU3Frvf7Drq4NwrGeXKHfQor1S4gfLA2nsGGEjqUZ9EokW6r8GLrYcJi8y5zFw3HEU7JGDuEnex1HDZB5iLsB1vL7mFgGgpCdp77viCU1Jn8iT1yosTx5RoopVETErX6vEkgE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fumbling]]></title><description><![CDATA[​ I am alone. Aren’t we all, though? I have ghosty pictures in my head of him, and her. And they. Show me the way? Someone? Won’t you please? I can’t find it, that damned way. I can’t stand on both legs]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@paintingangels/fumbling</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@paintingangels/fumbling</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2022 04:19:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7b4bio5hobgtGQKeTeQ5JNjSU3Frvf7Drq4NwrGoEUm9BFwE43owBThAEGwTextm7B6rc9dxoTw7GSqtzYWkCzAJDnLPafz4yLChExjDSareMMfJUDovEHsFKdZCtcDtfjJv5t115VbTpavoigzHKB5g9rDU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walking. Do you hear me?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am walking to somewhere Maybe a bluewhere Maybe it’s dark. Maybe you’re there. Are you ? You there? Is anyone? Out there? I’m talking to you! I listen to my thoughts too much. They threaten to choke]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@paintingangels/walking-do-you-hear-me</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@paintingangels/walking-do-you-hear-me</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2022 23:16:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7b4bio5hobgtGQKeTeQ5JNjSU3Frvf7Drq4NwrH1eH3baL2mCG2v6yFeRs8RXzXykcRtbnCBkjSGHLtD73DUpwp8mrgqx97aPZyGf7TMBuF59hvrjoFLkPJUzPYRUxLLX8tphoM5L2genqZArfnd8WNbwhwU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really damn tired and I'm daydreaming of being wherever Elliott Smith is existing (or not) right now.]]></title><description><![CDATA[So, that. It's cheery sunshiney time with Serena again. Believe me? Let's just get into it. There's this one song by Elliott Smith that haunts me. "Waltz #2 (XO)" I want to say it's my favorite]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/sad/@paintingangels/i-m-really-damn-tired-and-i-m-daydreaming-of-being-wherever-elliott-smith-is-existing-or-not-right-now</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/sad/@paintingangels/i-m-really-damn-tired-and-i-m-daydreaming-of-being-wherever-elliott-smith-is-existing-or-not-right-now</guid><category><![CDATA[sad]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2022 04:11:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eBuQeosrEGxAnKdYCh6KdS3eTNgkhYap8Er?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quiet, not.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I live in a box. Cardboard floors catch my falls But they are cold I need a warm embrace And whispers exploding into flames Burn the box down There are too many secrets I chase ghosts down gray hallways]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@paintingangels/quiet-not</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@paintingangels/quiet-not</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 03:47:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7b4bio5hobgtGQKeTeQ5JNjSU3Frvf7Drq4NwrGg3BWqpLXF7DRwY2gs1Yp46NjLdez9zi5w5FvqLeUPakwgGRyfzX98nkQEsVcpeHCqH9sFmQmgTBhGxRWpUCnbPoHEaKjqxff1iA4DxN5rip9uknMkLHre?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prison Song, Dear Crows]]></title><description><![CDATA[I can’t swim in the ocean nor a lake, nor a creek (such absurdity) I am wise enough, though, to know the truth about drowning and I know how beautiful the sharks may be. I do not wish for drugs, nor death]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/darkness/@paintingangels/prison-song-dear-crows</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/darkness/@paintingangels/prison-song-dear-crows</guid><category><![CDATA[darkness]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2022 11:26:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7b4bio5hobgtGQKeTeQ5JNjSU3Frvf7Drq4NwrH338cosH5xJNb5wKsk431oWvHyyTEfmSwzJaRHWmLrgaMensDEyLom36MGtcec65dPu1KC79WUzKFYGZmYmkKACr4Y8Ed528J4BFB7oMtMx3VsqLPv6qEW?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walkers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Howdy. How is your life? Lovely, I hope. As for me, I am mingling with the dead. The ones that walk. The ones that want to eat your face off. I've been watching "The Walking Dead" and as oddly]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/thewalkingdead/@paintingangels/walkers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/thewalkingdead/@paintingangels/walkers</guid><category><![CDATA[thewalkingdead]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2021 22:34:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2rhneu8os5HFdgsoaUhAbYtTgMxwxZznpYHSbpmhCnPGJ9aGmXaxdFHQrQQ4GyEY7oAZGVSkJzbx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[HIVE is a LIAR.  Also, trusting means trouble.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I received this comment from the HIVE liarbot. Sorry, but 4 years on Hive? No. You mean Steemit. My first cryptobestie. I fell in love with it all. And, no surprise, my heart was wounded. I let my guard]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/thinking/@paintingangels/hive-is-a-liar-also-trusting-means-trouble</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/thinking/@paintingangels/hive-is-a-liar-also-trusting-means-trouble</guid><category><![CDATA[thinking]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:15:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7b4bio5hobgtGQKeTeQ5JNjSU3Frvf7Drq4NwrGioejivt14qKZ7sXNHSFgLRNDi3eth5Tk3wBGbKdVnhKGo6fnB4A3bM7cMR9jo8mTZv6cSosEmHGRSicivxNgFu5r4mzTwpcnqfRzhz2dXEPp7w1qFpByQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deletions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hey. Someday, when I'm dead, I wonder if anyone will find this journal and read it and wonder how screwed up I really was, because of my likely-interpreted mental instability. I'm not so bad, though. I]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@paintingangels/deletions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@paintingangels/deletions</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2021 22:20:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/FxX5caie56yoXoGCCgZvo2HjgcUgMTMcgvDk2qsPipn6q6A1aVsqFeA4KPV7tV3pVX4KSrhaZ7G1v4fRV6xR894VMRuzYrqKLeXc1XrWRwAN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Antipsychotic]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you kinda know me or have ever read this blog at all you know that I overshare. So be it. I give no dams. I’m not a beaver. I am lately obsessed with John Wick, by the way. That movie is the greatest.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/sadness/@paintingangels/antipsychotic</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/sadness/@paintingangels/antipsychotic</guid><category><![CDATA[sadness]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2021 02:20:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[11:11]]></title><description><![CDATA[Make a new wish and don’t say it out loud The Devil will hear you and summon new clouds Your clouds are mean, though They threaten to stay Wrestling with words now, you’re tempted to say Watching the clock]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@paintingangels/11-11</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@paintingangels/11-11</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2021 13:44:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7b4bio5hobgtGQKeTeQ5JNjSU3Frvf7Drq4NwrGdHwYziejDt38jByJwKCzo6kniQeXxw3EELDTpkCCFTYBpAnyR7qCRkHjWikcufmqKSvTjPYcPRntc5GS8z8DK6BdrYUZGkXrT4nxe4DbkVsEce1t1y6og?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps a prediction? From a little old nobody?   Sure..]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello, Internet. I am not an expert in the world of crypto AT ALL, but I have been learning a lot because I think it’s a worthwhile effort. Having said that, I think I might make a prediction anyway. Wanna]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dogecoin/@paintingangels/perhaps-a-prediction-from-a-little-old-nobody-sure</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dogecoin/@paintingangels/perhaps-a-prediction-from-a-little-old-nobody-sure</guid><category><![CDATA[dogecoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2021 21:38:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2VZXybTSZJq1HdYsB7fJjuW6meDRuV7r8fXfxUUeJWT6qJJsE6bf7Tj16RfzZS38EjTi3YVaGKjdiEZmYyUJNZfjhJzxCtAQEBx1G4UooZNKfP9ErDR1Zd7ELVcDRDuZ4mrRgotFfNNAjUxecPZRUxvFRVG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fallen]]></title><description><![CDATA[They scattered, unfortunate birds... falling in circles as if dropped by a Lesser god with clumsy hands. An outcast angel unblessed by the Greaters but still catching birds, even if only for a moment.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@paintingangels/48qpzg-fallen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poetry/@paintingangels/48qpzg-fallen</guid><category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[paintingangels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2021 22:44:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7b4bio5hobgtGQKeTeQ5JNjSU3Frvf7Drq4NwrGc4mHKeqFvqpi3ejYfjqzirYDTpWYpxpC3phBhUXJQLX2ihdboGgfLBrXiRP4GzLJcFJeqfdAWGzfoyX5kixhcancHgBvoHJRcVxeEjeKyse9uModcM9JW?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>