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in real life, Rocky would've died at the end
in real life you would find yourself rooting for the fighter to stay down instead of get up because in real life when you’re beaten that badly and you gets up too soon it doesn’t mean you ar...
typos
covered your flaws over and over these layers thick with white-out hoping to hide and be as if anew for someone else again and again now here you are a scratch ticket in full hoping so...
bottleneck
ten billion possible pasts filtering into a single now ten billion possible futures lay out before it too here is the chokepoint, the bottleneck that is the single lonely current state ...
shakedown 1972
Willie Mays once an all-time great lost trying to play in the outfield at Shea because he didn’t know two years ago was the time to go retire away it happened before I was even born ...
try losing instead
the people who returned from trouble as shiny heroes are not the ones to ask about the horrors of world they just lucked out and didn’t see the shit in full the ones who came home wo...
remington way
Ilion New York where the streets were paved with blood literally paved by blood money once every third street named Remington the gun factory at its beating heart for so very many years that ...
february
the winter up here is like getting a baby chick for Easter the first snow of November is like “OH IT’S SO TINY AND CUTE” but by February it’s this weird ugly thing that pecks at the w...
broken
reality, a vinyl record spun so many times it hiccups pops and skips, scratches in the dips betraying the circuitous motion that it plays endless inadvertent repetitions, back to back ...
first night stand
the two best ways to first try stand-up are either (a.) in front of strangers you will never see again or (b.) in front of friends who won’t judge you if you’re terrible the first time ...
with or without you
if you believe in anything beyond this mayfly short life I’m not saying there isn’t or is don’t believe that you can worship it with pretty words or sacrifice or prayers let alone by having...
living in the future
passwords codeswitch dogwhistles whistle backs ten mega-bit encryptions wheaties rings could unload street slang confected on a lark made accidental real by the old loud speakers speaking...
yield, juggernaut
when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object both will yield when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object they annihilate each other when an unstoppable force meets ...
everything must go
I call my underwear Sears because no one goes in there anymore and the people outside agree with me that it’s a sad turn of events but the sympathy does not extend to folks trying to get in...
in the arms of a pterodon
after every Jurassic Park movie comes out there’s a spike in baby dinosaur adoptions because they’re just so damn adorable but within a year, most of them get abandoned in the forest or ...
strictly business
the generationally wealthy are the dumbest people in the world because there is no penalty upon them for being crushingly cruelly ignorant their actions bear no consequence on them so knowi...
talk soup
the grammar alt-right are just as bad as regular old grammar Nazis but a lot dumber the Soup Alt-Right is just as bad as the Soup Nazi except he’s just microwaving Campbells Chicken and Stars...
charlie in the middle
I can’t find a middle name for Charlie Brown ruining my joke about him being bullied past the point of breaking and assassinating his hero the baseball player Joe Schlabotnik always being ca...
mirage-a-trois
as long as you keep navigating by the mirage of perfection that stays at the horizon no matter how fast you can run you are never going to get to the good stuff that is actually here to be fou...
the townperson's lament
stop smashing all my pots, Link what are you hoping to accomplish? stop smashing all my pots, Link they were very expensive stop smashing all my pots, Link what does smashing my pots up hav...
cause and effect
yes, a single flap of a butterfly’s wing can down a chain of causal dominoes trigger off a hurricane a continent away but that’s not why the butterfly flaps any triggering of butterfly effect...
the pragmatic bleeding-heart manifesto
you don’t plant a seed only because you think you’ll live to see it in full bloom or because you think that your grandchildren will do the same if you think those are the reasons why a...
the god and I
hope kept fair and kind by compassion kept humane and honest by compassion kept grounded to earth by compassion compassion renewed when exhausted by hope illuminated in winter darkne...
calendar
I have got a calendar full of therapy appointments and open mic night reminders as if there is a difference as if there is a difference between those two kinds of things
january bare
angels guarding wings of argent hearts so ardent winter never came the snow fell then melted right away without our months under its blanket for wounds to heal for autumn leav...
a very normal afterlife
once, there was a very normal boy so normal he was born in Normal, Illinois he was born at a very normal time Monday afternoon at half-past-five and he was normal ev...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
