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passing
the irony of the E-Z Pass program supposedly making all of these highway miles less of a hassle a line of three tractor-trailers in their dedicated convenience lane with automation delay only ...
breakdown lanes
on a long enough timeline with infinite cars eventually every roadside would be checkered to the brim with new flowers and old crosses with grievances tragedies emotional scars endless memoria...
more than a few
no… in fact… have regrets go and have tons of them ome without regrets is living like an entirely un-self-examined life possibly glacially boring or even worse yet they a...
the bear went over the mountain
it’s difficult enough to be passed over for someone or something when it is actually in some concrete way better than you stronger faster smarter richer younger older bigger smaller whate...
storytime
we are all of us just complicated bundles of interiorized narrative both foisted upon us and alternately self-invented we are all of us just stories briefly bound to t...
small wonders
Don’t let your world get small. Don’t hole yourself up inside an idea or an identity. Don’t hole yourself up between four literal walls. Nothing will drive you crazier than if you letting you...
the moral event horizon
don’t think of yourself as a “good person” think of yourself as a person trying to be good if you believe you’re good you’ll probably get lazy possibly lose perspective or even worse yet be...
on grounds of insanity (part 1)
Sentences that make total sense as a barista but sound dirty anywhere else: “My apologies, I need to grind in front of your face for a minute or two.” Sentences that make total sense as a b...
rolling for initiative
my mother was a healer who should’ve been a leader my father was a blacksmith who should’ve been a bard had an ex who went to Sage but then she turned the page I’m just a jack-off of all tr...
schmends
there are friends and then there are schmends people who you only know from the social media you may know this person friend-of-friend lists but you have never actually met in person that y...
"when are you gonna re-open"
instead of asking other people to build an arts scene for you build it and do all the maintenance so you can enjoy the fruits of labour get out there and stick your neck out go out there an...
a rose by any other
if you can memorize the new players on your sports teams people you’ll never meet, every year, you totally have the brainpower to remember not to deadname the people you actually know ...
the money shot
there’s less money in telling people “don’t listen to anyone as your guru not even me, you gotta find your own path inside of you, by your own math” than “I know everything and if you j...
coast to coast
In Hollywood, they die young and pretty. They die old and ugly in New York City. All the rest, both in-betweens and more’s the pity. All us rest are in-between and more’s the pity. New York ...
white light
you are a white light and this life is a prism no, it isn’t a prison this life is a prism a prism temporarily exposing the spectra of all the many things you can be, could be all of the thi...
if you meet the buddha on the road
if you meet the Buddha on the road take all of his stuff and tell him “I’m just helping you shed your attachments” if you meet the Buddha on the road kill him with kindness complimen...
radical acceptance
we gotta let go of the past but it can’t be for anyone else’s sake we can’t make that choice for them we have let go of the past for our own continuing health our very own s...
falling from above
the mandala that intricate sand paintings they make in the far east taking day taking weeks that they destroy upon completion so as to remind us how everything beautiful ends to remind us ho...
there will be oil
the next big gold mine is selling inessential oils useless oils you buy and display just to prove you have the money to waste on these meaningless oils I don’t even know what the...
wheel of misfortune
Is it weird I suspect Pat & Vanna detest each other so fuckity much either would give up all of their fortune and fame to no longer have to look at the other ever again for the rest ...
crazy
those great “crazy geniuses” did their best most valued and well-remembered work during extended periods of lucidity and/or recovery the works of “madness” were generally crap either ...
always
listen there were always gay folk there were always trans folk just now they’re coming forward react with love and understanding and not...
crossroads
no guitar or crossroad is required if you want to sell off your soul you just need a three-piece suit you just need a heart like a hole the devil no longer waits at the city’s edges li...
students alone
rebellion’s hard to get done when they’ve got us all pressed down check-to-check and deep in debt and on the run forever let’s be real the crushing student and medical debt heaped on mil...
completion
I’ll be whole when I’m dead which sounds depressing but actually its goddamn joyous as long as I am imperfect flawed and uncompleted I can grow and learn I can evolve and change ...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
