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oneupsmanship
god tried to kill me with dog piss three am stumbling toward the bathroom linoleum slicked with canine anxiety trying to set me up for the slow and lonely humiliating demise that would fit ...
"freedom"
the “freedom” of being single is the same kind of “freedom” your bones get to have when there’s no skin or muscle or sinew to hold them together they’re free but motionless dea...
and a day
I can’t wait forever. I can’t, wait forever! I can’t wait, Forever! I can’t wait forever. I can’t wait much longer I’m aching and lonely and broken inside I can’t wait much...
family tree
Mother Tiresias Father Gilgamesh Sister Cassandra Brother Coyote Old Uncle Odin Dear Cousin Christ let’s transcend the myth-divide together wouldn’t it be nice?
neutral good
I’d rather do good than feel right I’d rather help the refugees here now than lead some past or future’s revolution I’d rather follow flawed people trying than have to fight the monst...
these trying times
lullabies and alibis we’re all just trying to get sleep at night alibis and lullabies can’t we just try to rest tired eyes drop our defenses lower the disguise short hellos a...
inflicted
yes you are the one who pulled the trigger but who put that gun into your slender hand who sold you the bullet who fed you your fears? action ...
e-phemera
two hundred years of worth of names of generals and queens and kings gilded into the wall of an ancient palace will not tell you one ten-thousandth about that society as compare...
spring unsprung
they say that spring is coming but they’ve been saying it for months they said it got here three weeks ago it might not get here until June they say that spring is coming but spring must b...
what you wish for
let your dim light shine yours is yours and mine is mine I once tried to reflect light too but now I am an untethered moon don’t often show my face before noon that’s the life of an untether...
in the forest of the night
maybe raging against the dying of the light is entirely missing the point maybe instead sneak around in that darkness start some new fires despite it all instead raging is fun f...
carry that weight
Before enlightenment, you must go to the well every morning for water. After enlightenment, you must go to the well every morning for water. Before grief, you must go to the well every ...
i've had a few
if you live a life with no regrets that doesn’t mean you were strong or decisive or or stalwart or brave it means you haven’t learned from anything we change and we grow and we evolve and ...
ninety-six pieces of paper
that’s what hope looks like four months of lottery tickets fished out of your wallet out of my ragged wallet eight or ten bucks a week cast into time’s dustbin not because I...
tactful cactus
the whole reason she has all of those spines is there’s something that’s sacred inside of her so marvelous and strong such love and lightness inside there to protect if it wasn’t ...
trouble
trouble with truth is it only goes so far only cares how things just are it don’t care on how they feel the truth is a trip sharp sides but a too-blunt tip double-edged sword that’s...
magpie
my heart is a magpie lining its nest with all the shiny rocks ebony eyes cannot allow lost chitinous beak can come across caw caw when my heart stumbles over a pebble ...
pineapple express
what if pineapples are actually eggs laid by the most unfortunate breed of birds ever? cah-caaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! AAAAAAH! AAAAAH! AHHHHH! how good must sex be for the pineapple bird ...
still
what a difference a comma can make “I’m standing still” versus “I’m standing, still” you see sometimes they’re the same thing right now they’re the same thing for me I’m...
tether
you will be tethered to the past whether you’re on board with it or not you do have a choice, though between the past being a weight upon chains dragging you down into useless despair or the...
split attentions
during the rise and reign of even the worst dictators and monsters people still gotta eat people still gotta sleep we still have birthdays and jobs still have sex, still watch teevee stil...
don't that beat all
on the day we got my father’s ashes the company that killed him declared bankruptcy a munitions factory that had held the region hostages for years extracting wage and benefit cuts an...
let the kids live (for alan)
what it all comes down to is we’re only a few thousand years out of the caves we are only a few thousand years out of the trees all of us, from the veld of the great rift va...
humane nature
hatred and greed are not wired into the human condition it just seems like that because we recursively create that system when I was a little boy I thought the malls were always just there...
under the table and making fun of you
you have no idea how much we wanted to follow that SUV until it stopped what with the dented-in bumper and all the Dave Matthews Band stickers on the back we just want to confront them and ...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
