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Eddie Joe Beers

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in Gary, IN, The United States
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Poetry, Self Help, Philosophy

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Henry Miller,James Baldwin, Albert Camus, Charles Bukowski, Diogenes, ...more

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April 2025

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Eddie Joe Beers writes for the dangerously awake.

He’s an outlaw poet and the author of Gas Station Dharma, Look at Me When I’m Hitting You, and the Matchstick Mornings series—collections built for readers who use words as a reset button. His work blends raw, working-class grit with philosophical urgency, offering not escape, but clarity.

Born in Chicagoland and forged in the desert, Beers found his voice where concrete ends and silence begins. He writes from the edge: for the 3 AM thinkers, the system-fatigued, and anyone who needs a truth bomb in their back pocket.

His poetry isn't meant to be studied. It's meant to be used—to armor your mind, spark your fire, and remind you that the most potent rebellion is a thought they can't control.

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Eddie Joe Beers Camus. Arendt. Gary Snyder. Burroughs. Whoever had the guts to say what nobody else would — even if they got eaten for it.
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Eddie Joe Beers A cracked shell. A held mirror. Maybe one moment of “wait… I’m not alone in this.” I don’t write for escape. I write for confrontation.
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Because the truth has no manners. I write to bleed, not to please. If you wanted something polished, you should’ve picked up a brochure.
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“Your silence is not neutrality. It’s an RSVP to the lie.”
― Eddie Joe Beers, Look At Me When I'm Hitting You
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“What if poetry’s job isn’t to heal you — but to ruin what’s fake?”
― Eddie Joe Beers, Look At Me When I'm Hitting You
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“You call it coping.
I call it hiding.
We both know what it really is.”
― Eddie Joe Beers, Look At Me When I'm Hitting You
tags: and-reflective-poetry-book, existential-poetry, mental-health-poetry, modern-free-verse-poems, thought-provoking-poetry
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“I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger
tags: explanations, gazing, inexplicability, nonconformist, nonfconformism, quietness, silence, smoking
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“Ideological thinking ruins all relationship with reality”
― Hannah Arendt
tags: benign-validation, philosophy-of-life, reality-of-life
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“Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”
― Karl R. Popper
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“The aim of philosophy is to show the fly the way out of the bottle.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
tags: philosophy-of-life, philosophy-of-perception, philosophy-quotes
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“Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.”
― Gary Snyder
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