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by littlefallsmets

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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...


April 09, 2016

the jams

No! Don’t kick out the jams! Don’t pump them up either, they’re fragile! The veil between reality and fiction the veil between reality and madness they’re different but look as...


April 09, 2016

love and theft

Saying taxation is theft is like saying the brain steals blood from skin. Without the mechanism of functional society, your money doesn’t exist. The niceties that allow the exchange currency...


when I was a young but never tiny kid a vaporizer would’ve been a zap gun in a paperback maybe a cartoon show now it is a cigarette that looks like R2-D2’s peter and i...


April 09, 2016

history lessens

It’s important to remember how in context of the time the Second Amendment wasn’t about “freedom” it was about arming to put down slave rebellions. We’ve forgotten how ugly it always was. So...


The work isn’t what wears you out. It’s defending the work that wears you out. Then you have to recharge by doing the work more. But the work isn’t what wears you out. Good work only a few may ...


April 09, 2016

helper monkey

I don’t need a helper monkey but I’d love a co-dependence monkey who’d just sit beside me and tell me everything I do is amazing. The co-dependency monkey would send out all the bills...


April 09, 2016

retrospect

In retrospect, the most honest love letter I could ever write could ever written to a number of hers would be “You’re beautiful because you treat me like an infallible gen...


April 09, 2016

trigger warning

sooner than later all of this bullshit will be over some religions say that we will be in another place entirely some religions say that we will be back here again but we will remember nothing...


April 08, 2016

it's not

of course it’s not adam and steve it’s adam and stephen what kind of self-respecting gay dude would call himself “steve” adam and stephen’s wedding would be lovely I would ...


the longer we’re isolated from negative consequence the easier it is to create or release the things we make but also the easier it is to get out of touch with anything like a real life...


April 06, 2016

cage

in the end we’re all trapped within our minds the only person in there with us is ourselves so we may as well make that asshole laugh and hope they’re not so annoying mos...


April 05, 2016

position

how you position the profile picture on your social networking whatevers the picture you happen to put there it fascinates the hell out of me how sometimes they’ll put themselves h...


April 05, 2016

stockholm sapiens

I’ve seen the best minds of my generation use their masters degrees to work in filling stations I won’t pretend that this is normal I won’t pretend that this is right I don’t care if this benefi...


March 31, 2016

goddamn

“goddamn” is my favourite curse word by far because it is sneakily the worst curse of them all there are so many ways you can tell someone to deficate copulate urinate insult their ethnicity...


March 31, 2016

long gone

the road has burned away returned to petroleum roots in the hot sun in the drought caught fire like a cold transmuted to sticky cinder nothing to follow anymore even if you could walk it ...


March 30, 2016

or it didn't happen

you have to live by a credo so I will live by this code the only person who will have a picture of my penis is the coroner when I’m dead anyone else must request a live sho...


March 30, 2016

life stories

the best we can hope for from social networking is a future where the myth of flawless living is dashed by all of our permanent records where no one can claim to be perfect boy scout...


March 30, 2016

losing it

maybe it’s not that madness and art are directly linked it’s more that art is the evolutionary benefit we manifest to mitigate the advantages that we lose due to the madness maybe it’s a re...


March 30, 2016

tender as a mother's love

you’re not funny no one thinks you’re funny but you I shouldn’t have told you that you were special when you were young because now you are a loser and you don’t think you need to ever ...


March 28, 2016

april fools

all the very best and worst most devoted drinkers I know refuse to drink on St. Patricks Day they call it a rolling shit-show it’s just amateur hour they say it’s no fun...


March 27, 2016

our daily bread

there are a number of similarities between Jesus of Nazareth, messiah of the Christian faith and Poppin’ Fresh, the Pillsbury Doughboy far more than the fact that they’...


March 24, 2016

a basement on the hill

somewhere edges of eggs are crisping the dim blue light of dawn the beginnings of birdsong somewhere this tableau is relief somewhere this picture shows release not so much for me been u...


March 24, 2016

when

this is what it looks like equipped with a necessary but esoteric skill-set this is what it looks like overwhelmed with the prerequisite anxiety and stress this is what it looks like when ...


March 20, 2016

distant aftershocks

I hope that you are doing well but I don’t need to know if that state is actually the case I hope you’re finding what you need you couldn’t get from me but I don’t need to accidentally see ...


Book Description

these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.