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kintsugi
it’s not about how hard you worked not about the money that you made not about how many people saw it it’s about putting your truth out there put your truth out there, goddamn it the res...
hot wings
it must be terrible to love the wings at Hooters but hate the sexual objectification baked on in doomed to love that one particular hot sauce and there you are in Boobieroom eating ch...
at least
how many times have you had to lie to your lover “NO, DON’T LOOK AT MY COMPUTER!” closing it quickly “I’M NOT LOOKING AT PORN, I’M… BUYING YOU A PRESENT!” “DON’T LOOK,” you stammer, “...
better than we've done
maybe if we just all got frequent full-body massages like our pets maybe we wouldn’t start wars and invent scam ride-sharing services maybe we’d just stretch out and bat at rays of sunshi...
safety warnings
millennials, I make this old man pledge to you: I will never make fun of you for having a tattoo but I reserve the right to make fun of bad tattoos so you might as well either get none or ...
monument
there’s a CBGB’s branded restaurant at the Newark airport someone bought the name after they tore down the real thing used it to sell vinyl records and overpriced chicken salads to the rubes jus...
exiles
we gather ‘round the airport charger station much as our predecessors did around the fire electricity’s an artificially scarce thing, sure but it makes our flicker-boxes shine the same s...
better right than real
every conspiracy theory started with some desperate person deciding their view of the world must matter more than the facts of the given situation when acknowledging shared real...
the fine print
I mean, it ended badly it ended very badly, of course for any relationship to end after enough years for it to be teenage if it were a person it has to have ended very badly like a b...
liberty national airport, actually in new jersey
descending into Newark airport past refineries and roundabouts past shipping docks and used car lots we dip our wings through turbulence off toward Manhattan Island toward New York City orange...
arbitrary blood oaths
a billionaire pays young men from oppressed backgrounds to give each other brain damage on national television the men are not from where you’re from they’re largely disadvantaged rural South...
seven billion at least
eighty-three percent of all problems in history were caused by people thinking they are the baseline human experience their faith, their diet, their orientation how much heat they want to r...
what you got
We get to live, what, ninety years if we’re lucky? We all just got here. We’re all just babies. The only reason we’re not gathering berries and living in trees is the generational transf...
juxtaposition
if everyone is broken then nobody is if nobody’s perfect then everybody is yes, yes you, even in the back there we’re all dinged up, we’re all burning oil, we’re all dragging brakes, ...
purposeful absent-mindedness
the less stuff you have and the less stuff that you owe the less organized you have to be the less organized you have to be the less stuff you have to worry about the less stuff you have...
the fluff cycle
do you ever feel like an unpaired sock floating alone in the abandoned laundromat drier of life? I’m asking for a friend are you afraid that your mate went off wandered away into so...
america or doctor america's monster
I kind of want to dress up as Frankenstein hassle people waiting in Black Friday doorbuster lines yell “CONSUMERISM BAD” “FIRE BAD” “GOOD WINE” remind them that giving up your family and fri...
yes, call it a comeback
the day after the day reincarnation was proven true and they developed the machines that could tell you who you were when you were in the last life and the one before that and again and again ...
they called him Charles Brickens
How can the Flintstones have a Christmas special? How can Cocoa Pebbles have a holiday Sugar Cookie flavour? How can Fred and Barney act in a stage version of A Christmas Carol when a Christma...
rhyme of the ancient mariner
the problem with poems that rhyme done once you must then for all-time break out of the set rhyming scheme then all the words sound just obscene the change will drain you of your wit and al...
right and wrong (amended)
don’t talk loudly during the open mic night don’t talk LOUDLY during the open mic night you can whisper if you want to you can chatter sotto voce we understand if you’re trying to get laid we un...
repetition historifies itself
three airplanes were taken down by a small army with box cutters fifteen years later they still won’t let us fly with toenail clippers on our person but get shot to death in a school ...
the rock-a-fire implosion
the Chuck E Cheese nowadays looks like an iPad through up all over the inside of it all flashing flat screen teevees and ticket-dispensing machines and I mean, times change, I get it pinball ...
keep the change ya filthy animal
theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime and remembering that Donald Trump had a cameo in Home Alone 2 Doctor Macaulay Culkin stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator ...
a visitation from the man in the teevee
As a kid, you eat candy on Halloween and then probably get cavities down the road. As an adult, I got a cavity drilled on Halloween and don’t get to eat any candy at all because I have to be l...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
