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no exact science
the terrible thing about being human is that you are never completely wrong while also you are never completely right it’s the wonderful thing about being human as well ...
palatine bridge
driving through redneck oblivion in this case a hamlet called Palatine Bridge a broken-down house flies a Confederate battle flag and an American flag with Twin Towers...
half a page of scribbled lines
is there anything more wasteful than sleep? all the things you could’ve been thinking about all the wonderful ways you could’ve goofed off or perhaps a good deal more rarely all the things...
Thirty Days
They offer a thirty-day free trial but there is no guarantee of innocence at the end. They offer a thirty-day free trial but there is no guarantee of your sentenced guilt either. ...
the cool uncle blues
rowdy roddy piper’s dead so is david bowie our childhood has dried out the hot winds are blowing but instead of hiding in nostalgia like some sulking scolded pup let’s make a new nostalgia ...
her eyes
her eyes nearly dark as the night her eyes comforting as the night the deep soothing quiet of the night peaceful at the surface sheen roiling with potential beneath I could tell yo...
a new person every day
you wake up a new person every day which sounds amazing except that also means every night when you fall asleep you die and then you wake up a new person every day which could be very exci...
s words
they forged a sword so strong that it could cut through anything anything not just flesh or bone metal or stone the sword could cut through concepts the sword could cut through ether ...
that beast nostalgia
nostalgia is the methadone to the opiate of really being alive the clinic doors have been shuttered there’s only one way left to thrive pull together all your embers of the f...
tannhauser gate
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe I’ve matched wits with Gary Gnu I’ve gotten a standing ovation dressed as Andre the Giant at a sold-out burlesque show I’ve run errands for the...
status update
facebook doesn’t need to tell me it’s the birthday of one ex and then send me an old picture of the other five years ago as a “facebook memory” even worse from new york ci...
discount
the cazenovia discount that whoever came the furthest to join these weirding revels should have a little extra time to raise their vocal levels or if there is not anyone who’s from that far a...
slight return (voodoo chile)
the return there, turn the ret-urn the return here turn there turn everywhere we turn turn everywhere the tides churn suns burn ...
shakedown
life and time will take your favorite songs away through the experiential association that’s just how it is you loved it then you heard it ten thousand times at that terrible job where...
the process
praise be whatever is behind the veil sometimes we are reborn after we fail if we’ve communion with it to be made it isn’t wine or bread or salt or corn the gift...
two
there were two points to be made about the woman in the strip mall parking lot in the mini-van with the jealous looking man stopping in and out of the shop for cigarettes of some kind one was...
mantra
you make yourself a hurricane you make your mind the eye your heart opens the white hot room and then you live or die
you are el
you are laminations you are liminal you are luminous you are lamentations you are libations you are love you are illustrated you are elevated you are limitless you are a discret...
putting on airs
no mere material inheritor she was rather an heiress to Eris goddess of strife and discord it was what we loved her for she was an heiress to strife and discor...
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as for this barrage its of dribs and drabs its of bibs and bobs it is no scripture but a scrapture no catch-all just a capture I can only pick...
anxious weather
when it passes by it passes like rain worms rising from gravel as heartache and pain and after we’ve dried out with sunshine for days ...
a wagon so long it circles itself
we’re no mere blasphemers we are blasphenominal you’re not just gender-non-comforming you are glambiguous in expression in identity and in volume we are the hot hot heathens these are n...
take deep breaths
consider all the shame consider all the blame it’s the same game don’t do it for the gloss don’t do it for the boss they exact the same cost your blood your life your love the iron fist or...
lincoln avenue address
I believe in the weird arts I believe in punk rock indie film bit parts I believe in burlesque secular street preachers I believe in mandolins accordions and...
cardiff giant
(okay, it’s more of a metal song than a poem but the idea of writing a metal song about the Cardiff Giant hoax in the 1800s tickled my fancy so, ah, there we are) will the man who’s made of stone...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
