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believe
Literally any product could be marketed under the name “I Can Believe This Is Not Butter” Even butter, if it is of a low enough quality “Home Depot 2-by-4s: I Can Believe These Are Not Butter” ...
social
before social networking you used to lose touch with people from the past parts of your life unless you really really tried Christmas cards and reunions phone trees and newspaper clippi...
rage against the rage
Back before everything became so dire before there were actual Nazis in charge to fight it would’ve been fun to all dress up in robot costumes and pretend to protest outside of a Rage Again...
the enemy
The perfect is the enemy of the good. The perfect is the enemy of the good. The perfect is the enemy of the good. This is the closest thing I’ve ever come to a mantra because… because I sure ...
political silence
“Let’s stop making everything political.” Baby, we weren’t the ones that did this. We were trying our best to live and let live. But the cruel bastards went ahead and did this. ...
no set of footprints at all
the number at which you cross the threshold from a collection of sand grains to suddenly a beach is vague but eventually it does transubstantiate one moment just some sand another moment w...
burning bright
the difference between a caged tiger’s pacing as he’s been waiting to pounce and to strike and an elephant’s pacing that’s listlessly swaying from confinement driving them mad ...
the democratic response
Look, I am a child of the internet age. Look, my browser has four tabs each a different page. Look, I can walk and chew gum at the same time. Look, I can easily multitask and even make ...
continental drift
Maybe I am driftwood and I’m trying to take the shape of me. Maybe I do drift good but I’m trying to find a place to be. Maybe I drift because I should but I’m wasting away here ...
vasquez canyon as america
the greenest that I ever saw these hills in the desert high the six or so years that I lived here the half-dozen I’ve been visiting my brother thick grass along the Vasquez Ro...
Steuben's Charge
Friedrich von Steuben. Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben, that’s a foreign name, isn’t it. That’s a scary immigrant refugee kind of n...
blinking lights (for me)
check engine soon check engine soon there is maintenance required should’ve done it this afternoon the parking brake is out now this laptop’s fan is too the motor on my CPAP’s past its expec...
someday
someday I’ll be dead but I will never grow old I guess I’ll just stay like this then one day wake up cold I might live to thirty-eight I might live to ninety-eight instead but I ...
abandoned winnebago in passing
leave an opened-up map on the dashboard of your car let the neighbors think you know where you’re going let the local cops think that you know where you are even thoug...
Cahuenga Passing
studio city welcomes you as the rich scent of laurel bleeds into the distinctive musk of weed studio city welcomes me no trains through the desert dust a million cars and maybe one bu...
souls to squeeze
psychopomp and circumstance praying for rain at the harvest dance we’re liminal being oft seen askance squeeze the shaman if you get the chance straddling boundaries does get lonely two-spiri...
closer
close enough to taste it too far away to face it too long ago to place it yes I managed to waste it got this paper to trace it and I try to embrace it so few even get to graze it ...
it smells like Victory Blvd
peach ring bag spanish newsmag Christmas lights two months late dentist’s ad basketball flag ivy on a rusty gate the rush of cars on surface streets like ocean waves to some peopl...
SFO 6:45AM
mere proximity to some retro-styled bar makes me wanna dig up Frank Sinatra’s gin-soaked fucking corpse and beat it into a fine marinara sauce ain’t nothing “cool” about that...
SFO 4:59AM
at five AM the goddamn jackals finally open up their doors and let us Spend money on Things again if only to break up the crushing delirious mortal fucking tedium of an airport o...
loathing
the truth of it is there is no Freak Kingdom not anymore anyway of course, was there ever one? if there was, it was not around for me to see before my birth in time and in space as wel...
self-aggrandizement and self-pity at once
Getting crucified up on a hill when you’re still young and pretty in the big dirty city I’m sure that hurts like hell for a couple of days but then bam, you’re now magic ...
my dirty life and times
first you realize all the geniuses are insecure then you realize everyone everywhere is insecure finally you realize everyone everywhere is insecure ...
o'hare
The miracle is not that we can now cross a continent in a manner of hours via the marvels of modern airtravel, though that should be the miracle. The miracle is that we have mana...
god wants your credit card number
Religion is the ransomware of the human operating system fully ready to fix at great cost to you the myriad problems that it itself caused holding you hostage...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
