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panic attack haiku
reverse of reserves a reserve of reverses past empty, worsens
not quite a thousand words
in the universe where you went back in time you tried to prevent World War Two by propping up Hitler’s art career he supplanted Bob Ross on the Joy of Painting some other messed-up ...
five into seventy-two
the deer on Route Five are trying to give their lives to take out our cars late at night as a political or religious statement at this point fucking deer ...
independence day
after we invade countries after we raze cities burn their farms and commandeer their wells start putting in Cinnabons Starbucks and Shells when they start getting our summer ...
this is not a finished poem
wisdom is realizing you’re never going to be wise all of the time no matter how much experience you’ve got up your sleeve revise revise revise Einstein close to the nature of...
radio free will
oh baby oh darling I’ve held my commission despite indecision despite all the derision I’ve held my commission despite all the times it has meant my omission despite all the dissin’ the jam...
as we go along
had the power socket gone up in flames at three in the morning not five in the afternoon I would be dead right now suffocated along with my family and their pets we would have all been dea...
giving thanks
If jocks thank God when they win, they should blame Satan when they lose. “That interception I threw, I blame The Devil.” “The opposing point guard sold his soul to the King of L...
mystics and statistics
eighty-three percent of all men are assholes eighty-three percent of all women are assholes eighty-three percent of all people who in one way or the other do not fit into the traditional gend...
people of the book
you can’t just kill the landlord gotta burn the deed you can’t just hoard one harvest gotta spread the seed you can’t just give one meal out gotta socialize the feed you can’t just smoke...
not quite an atheist
I’m open to an improbable solution to this problem maybe there are gods and monsters, unicorns and goblins but I’ve been made to never see Shiva, Yahweh or the magic because if I knew that...
viral strain
back in our day back in the Nineties the memes were SO much less potent if someone was passing around a little “Mr. T Ate My Balls” at a rock concert if someone brought a...
electile dysfunction
dear Viagra we are experiencing an election that feels like it has lasted six years so far should we seek help immediately we have been endlessly tumescent with voting and debating...
off-the-air
there used to be television sign-offs times after midnight or one somewheres where a station would play a schedule a national anthem or some prayers then the cha...
every part of the elephant
Three mystics of various traditions and three agnostics from varied cultural backgrounds were blindfolded and lead into a small room with an elephant in the middle then both groups were ...
self-awareness
many people try to erase the bad things in their lives by never mentioning them at all by pretending they do not exist myself I try to talk about my troubles so much it exhausts th...
now you know
nearly everyone knew he was running on fumes nearly everyone assumed she was high on other fumes from a paperbag in her room though she was shaking really from thought...
pope joan
pope joan according to the story would’ve led you all to glory had you left her alone pope joan probably didn’t exist but that isn’t a problem when faith is ...
curses foiled again
swearing kills pain numbs it frays it helps you block it out the fucking scientists said that swearing is a sign of honesty or anyway the appearance of honesty it co...
ahistorical rebuttal
giving away the unicorn face to the little kid as if to suggest that I was doing it because I was a damned great guy not a long-shot at trying to impress the girl on the dance floor with the ...
the bump
in professional wrestling they call the act of getting actually hit but exaggerating it while also trying to not actually get hurt they call that “taking a bump” a trust fall is easy...
zuccotti and wildlife preserve
before you can occupy Wall Street Washington or the nearest city hall you gotta sit and scream inside the borders of your mind’s own city park you gotta occupy your own dam...
the law of orders
they meet at the Rotary to all sit and spin and at Masonic Halls to all shit green bricks they will meet at the Lions to pussy about at Knights of Columbus the same way no doubt the...
the sealed box of your head
to everyone else you’re the rough average of all your facets all of your traits all of the people you have to be for your job for your hobbies for your parents for your lover ...
mad dog twenty-twenty hindsight
yeah it used to be we could escape the cold in the hot embrace of rock ‘n’ roll we can still go there now but it’s no longer as warm there yeah it used to be we could pretend we were coo...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
