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no longer
I’m no longer afraid of flying oh, of course, it still bothers me all the security theater that does nothing the seats all designed for some human being a foot shorter and a hundred...
for a limited time
we’re all just living in the wreckage of our lives we’re all just looking for kisses and high-fives we’re all just being like bees from dead hives we’re all ...
between the bars
the monsters locked down in the basement to keep the children safe in the night look up at the little slivers of light coming down through the cracks between the planks that form the...
now and again
the past was a terrible place to live but the good news is everyone was used to it so they thought it was all just normal the now is a terrible place to live but the...
the kansas inside the all of us
the tornado isn’t you but it is a part of you the tornado inside you can drive you forward, yes, but the tornado can also rip you apart from your heart on out rend you from your deepest...
the phantom limb
it’s been so dark for months now I should guess right around nine may as well be down in Plato’s Cave waiting upon the prodigal sunshine but not even a groundhog’s s...
flux
you will never become you you will never become yourself your essence is not a static beginning or end your truest self is a never-ending process of becoming you stop bei...
the big if
if there is a God and if I get a face-to-face with Her or Him though I’d have harsh words for such a Thing dress down God for the horrors of this world this life, the cruelties that Go...
doubt as the last defense
living with the deadly serious consequences of a deeply unserious time sociopaths believe everyone is a sociopath and that empathy is just something people pretend at to get things more easily,...
flinching won't help
black rags worn in mourning red flags flown in warning that forgotten arm laid you flat-out in the ring and stole away your love or the phantom ripcord with the broken stri...
palliative care
a nation addicted to bad-faith outrage opiates subscribed by the A.M. talk-radio spin doctors now simply strung-out straight on the hard stuff black-tar Trumpism injected straight into ...
without
Without social media, how would we know if our old crushes are still attractive? How would our most favorite celebrities tell us what to be mad about this week? How would we get a minute-by-mi...
every day
every day steal a single brick from out a needless wall every day put a brick into a bridge that needs building every day you’ve got a good shot at changing the world every day it’ll se...
why they shine
the stars don’t shine for you no, they shine because of you they burn away out there in the cold night with or without you the light’s there either way but only meeting up with you...
painting you a picture
I realized after pouring over years of math that the opposite of Donald Trump is Bob Ross he served honorably in the military he had lots of hair he was calming and beloved he was actually g...
the gospel of thomas the doubter
maybe but probably not you will witness no magic because that’s what you are an anti-magic avatar disspelling the fog of a blinded demiurge believing itself a god, itself the God weaving ...
falling from above
you did the cool drugs ironically so you could go die off iconically but they could not even kill you to your depths of disappointment turns out that all your ...
hollywood and highland
down at the crossroads you’d sell it for song but it’s all in the details and you’ve waited too long your sole salvation’s a total lack of self-control but give yourself a hand you’ve du...
seasons
I feel as though without my father I’ll never know the springtime and I’ll never know the autumn again wherever I happen to be the seasons will forever only hard-flip from freezing to burni...
just kind
every moment there is joy and horror and beauty and tedium and love and sleep and eating and confusion and want and pain and ecstasy happening all over the world in the various nodes of h...
sonshine
the sun will shine upon us, brother the sun will shine on us, my friend the sun will shine on us someday again though I won’t lie and say that I know how though I won’t lie and say that I k...
you may
you may well be correct in your suspicions that you are a damaged secret genius and if the right person came along to fix your broken pieces, you could be a world-beater and the very best ...
life
I dropped the roll of toilet paper and to retrieve it from my sitting position I had to delicately balance pulling it toward me without making it just unspool further and further and further ...
once
an outdoor hot tub in a cheap motel in Sedona once looking up at the Red Rocks with a lover once looking up at desert stars with an ex once I was there once might as well have been an...
as seen on a busted television set
for now we see, as through the glass broken as through a screen of broken bleeding LCDs for now we see, as through the screen dimly or as if through a mirror half-shattered three-point-five ...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
