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see and be seen
I people-watched inside the mall I broke for a brief burrito bowl I wandered for two hours leisurely remarking on what shops had changed I stuck a fiver in a mass...
the scale of rhyming consequences
there are many levels to the Scale of Rhyming Consequences you may not be technically cruising for a bruising but you may well be asking for a taking to a taxing or demandi...
clean sweep
whenever I’m cleaning in any kind of meaningful way more than just doing dishes clothes or straightening up the dog and the cat always look up at me with mock surprise the dog and t...
oysters rock-a-fella
the good news is yes, the world is your oyster the bad news is an oyster is a little bit of snot trapped in an angry rock people pretend is delicious just to gross you the hell out ...
what you own
breaking what you own yourself can absolutely be punk rock only if the things you break were things from cheap or free and half-broken to begin with if they are in working order even that is...
full circle (piece I performed at friends' wedding)
Love is not always a straight line. Sometimes it is, sometimes it’s love at first sight, you walk into high school, you see the person in the locker next to yours and bam, fifty years later, you ...
my old american home
there’s lead in the water madmen in the halls of power beggars in the streets outside those richmen’s fancy balls wars waged for their own sake with assurances the news is fake the roads...
where's waldo
everybody’s all like where’s Waldo, where’s Waldo why isn’t anyone ever asking how’s Waldo? how am I? you’re all looking for me but you’re all looking through me maybe that’s wh...
we have to try
if there’s a message to our madness an annotation for our tone, it’s there’s too many opiates for the masses and we must be the methadone they’ll sell you mystics and statistics they’ll sell...
love instead
the opposite of hate is not love, it is obsession love and obsession are actually quite different things no matter what the television or the computer tells you if you’re going to go ar...
god
god not as norse-christian hairy thunderer nor hippy-dippy new age cosmic muffin but god, god as the ocean, god as the sea vast bottomless ancient insanely powerful powerful in a...
shade tree
i don’t know where the shadows go when there’s just too much light we all need time in the warm sunshine but somehow it doesn’t seem right to bow and pray to the burning day ignoring ...
doubting before it was cool
Doubting Thomas the original hipster interrogating Jesus on the authenticity on the artisanal veracity of his actions were the loaves gluten-free, though, Jesus? was the fish organically...
blood for the bloodless
our blood is just a by-product of the churning in our bones our dreams just a by-product of when we’re stuck alone our realities by-products of when we stop looking at our phones our phones j...
to go
sometimes I feel like that one lonely token cherry tomato in the middle of a fast food salad just kind of floating there in a sea of iceberg and dressing two pounds of chicken and cheese ...
a flurry of punches
a blizzard on the first day of June unearthly unreal a million white puffs in the sky but not snow dandelion seeds instead a thunderstorm coming the wind whipping up near ninety degree...
that's your horoscope for today
Ares: you are taking astrology way the hell too seriously it is a fun game to play but it says about as much about a person as phrenology did go outside, take a breath, get yourself o...
help someone else instead of yourself books
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: eating drinking sleeping breathing in breathing out the elimination of wastes cell division HOW TO MAKE F...
perennials
we are… perennials we may get pushed down by the cruelty of a long winter but we will rise back up again when we cycle on around to May rise ...
especially when we fail
gilgamesh the matador and I’m the bull of heaven enkidu picked up a sword he’s been rolling sevens history keeps changing up but myth is writ in stone and here I am anyway feeling all a...
good eats
one of the new slangs by the kids on the facespaces and the twitzels is to say of someone attractive “oh that person’s such a snack” and I don’t know conflating someone’s lust with their ap...
being there
evolution is just the aggregation of mistakes that turn out to be beneficial until so many of them pile up at once and you have something new despite yourself make all of the mistakes, a...
hold on
what you don’t know can, of course, hurt you what you don’t know will still hurt like hell it will devastate you, it will ruin you but what you don’t know can only hurt you blessedly...
half-and-half
half the trick to making art is failing at everything else first backing yourself so far into the corner of unhireability so that you have to pour your whole life into art ...
after the gold rush
here we are at the fall of Rome the gate-barbarians strictly our own privileged classes swelling with hate tearing us down with demands for more fences and an end to all gates beca...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
