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🤑💰 unshackling myself from golden handcuffs

Dec 7, 2022 • Tobi Ogunnaike

🌸 seduced in condesa

May 23 • Tobi Ogunnaike

Seize the Pause: Turn Your Layoff to a Sabbatical

Mar 1 • Tobi Ogunnaike

I don't know where home is

Oct 1, 2023 • Tobi Ogunnaike

buttahbasted

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🌸 blinded by brisket

penultimate track from "buttahbasted"

Aug 16 •

🌸 a brunch to cry for

I wanted to thrust my fingers into that cavity between my throat and nose and itch away. But that border is blocked. (For good reason, I imagine). So I…

Aug 2 •

🌸 sight for sore lies

Do you remember the last time one of your senses betrayed you? Your eyes, those squishy face-eggs lured you down a path that left you lost? One minute…

Jul 17 •

🌸 salted serenade

"YOU HAVE TO MOVE HERE. It's the best city in the world." I don't remember who said these words to me. Was it the dancefloor brunette with the flower…

Jun 27 •

🌸 catfished by scampi

Crunch and crisp catapult you to cloud nine. You become giddy and woozy in a near-drunken appreciation of the physical sensations — the seductive wisps…

May 31 •

13 cities in 6 months

one man, too many beds

I've slept in too many beds this year.

Nov 12, 2023 •

beyond the Bali cliché

If I told you I went to a tropical paradise, only to spend three days writhing in bed with painful stomach cramps, you’d assume I’d never wish to…

Oct 22, 2023 •

lost in translation: my supermarket saga in Barcelona

Lost, confused, and overwhelmed in a Barcelona grocery store—sometimes adventures happen in the most mundane places. Come relive my ten minutes of…

Oct 8, 2023 •

I don't know where home is

My autocorrect is trapped in a bloody battle between warring worlds. When I text on my phone, Colonel Spellcheck searches through my words looking for…

Oct 1, 2023 •

what I ate in 24 hours in Bangkok

Baste in Bangkok

Sep 23, 2023 •

prose poetry

sinking in shallow waters

You stand ten toes deep in waters near hip height.

Apr 16 •

this is how we must dance

Human, when will you ever learn?

Nov 19, 2023 •

🎧 isn't it absurd?

isn’t it absurd, that you deny strangers entry into your home, but you let my words, sit and simmer in your most sacred space, your mind? how is it so…

Oct 15, 2023 •

🎧 when the clock forgets to tick

Sep 21, 2023 •

saltwater salvation

Nature siphoned her antidepressant right into my veins. Millimeters of mercy immersed themselves in my body—dissolving knots of tension, infusing…

Jul 24, 2023 •

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