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hope
every time a tomorrow morning comes something new might have happened upending the terrible things that are tearing you down every day it might be something completely outside of your c...
american tune
mournful train horn wails on through the valley undercut by screeches of its metal kissing metal joyous whistles as it wears itself away the wheels wear away the track wears away by mile...
trending
name your rock band “Thoughts And Prayers” so that whenever there’s a national tragedy that the Republicans feel they have to pretend to care about but certainly don’t want to do anything ...
powercycle
Are you sure that you need Viagra? Are you sure? Have you tried just turning yourself off then turning yourself on again? Have you tried just pulling the plug out waiting ten seconds a...
words words words
people make curses out of pooping people make curses out of peeing people make curses out of the simple act of sex but those things are happening all the time those things have always been ha...
a twist of the knife
in twenty years my e-mail accounts will still be receiving junk mail from stores where I bought presents for ex-girlfriends when I am long long dead my e-mail will still be receiving junk mai...
beaches
you will be outside of the gymnasium you will be trying to recruit passersby you will be selling memberships for the gym one day I will pass you buy on the street and when you ask me if I wa...
good
You can’t spell “compassion” without “compass” because that’s what it is, that’s what it does. When you don’t know where to go next, head in the direction of compassion. It might fail you...
love
Make love like you’re starving because you probably are. Like you’d die without that connection because you probably could. Like you’d drown without someone else to hold onto because you almost ...
always
there will always be lazy people cruel people hateful people who will judge you for what you are not for who you are and those people will always be wrong those people ...
you will go to the moon
The moon, above all else, is above all else. She hangs up there languid and waiting. People have been there but only for a little while only pushing the limits of what we can do as humans even...
maybe
maybe I am damned to write another heartbroken poem after every senseless massacre that the American cult of the gun causes and then bullies us into never doing anything about this time i...
the run down
You who chase bliss, I can understand you. You who chase power, I can reason with you at least sometimes. You who chase compassionate acts, I try to be with you, I try to be like you, I try t...
on a role
a rolling stone slowly erodes losing itself to the road as it goes a rolling stone gathers no moss that is to say rather it gathers loss the stone slowly sheers off thin layers on itself le...
sympathy for the devil we knew
I went to a K-Mart going-out-of-business sale to mourn a kind of America that has passed way maybe no less evil in its consumerism but certainly less invasive when at least the rich pe...
broke as a joke
If it ain’t broke, maybe it is actually broke and its trying to distract from its brokenness with folksy-ass words like “ain’t”. If it ain’t broke, maybe its just that its investments aren...
waxen wings
maybe Icarus had to be rash enough to fly too close to the sun if he was going to be able to try and fly at all, you know? Icarus did die a free man after all, there’s something to that Icaru...
different
we’re not so different myself and the dog with the tail that curls both we sniff around, maybe leave a mark both just wanna go out into the world maybe meet a girl maybe make some barks my mo...
sonnet the hedgehog
got-TA go FAST I MUST grab RINGS all NIGHT got-TA go FAST can-NOT hit SPIKES or DROWN got-TA go FAST there ARE egg-MEN to FIGHT got-TA go FAST ro-BOTS con-TROL the TOWN got-TA go FAST Se-...
as if
The idea that if we just sat down and made friends with Nazi Germany they’d’ve stopped is as ridiculous as staying that with the KKK. Or the Proud Boys or any other little boys of the Alt-Reich...
making a killing
the angry old man out of touch sitting on his laurels and millions made in a past before we understood the viewpoints of the oppressed yells “Political correctness is killing comedy!” or mayb...
my heart
my heart as a ratty thrift-store jacket with a wad of hundos sewn into the lining if only you’d check my heart as a day-glo marshmallow cereal with one hell of a free prize inside if you ...
the past is not even past
imagine if reincarnation turns out to be real then we figured out a way to exactly determine who everyone was in all of their past lives and you’re held up to the achievement standards of th...
fifteen minutes and counting
twice doth the blade fall ‘pon your head once naming you “sir” twice leaving you dead once pulling you up twice cutting the thread once for a fanbase and twice to displace once t...
broken chairs
the end is coming but you’ll just adjust to whatever horrors or wonders happen to come next you’ll be someone else then but you’ll survive, I guess might be trains or bombs may rain or thin...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.