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empty calories
Sometimes a “bad” thing isn’t even bad, it’s just that too much crowds out the good things. “Bad” things like empty calories or solitude. It’s not too much starch or fat it’s that when you’...
how to die with style
if I magically knew when and how I was going to die but couldn’t do anything to change it I’d make sure to leave as many fake clues as I could that it was a conspiratorial assassination by ...
beautiful
the things you think you are beautiful in spite of are the things that actually make you beautiful the things that are distinctive the things that make people stare are also the reasons why ...
twenty-gauge blues
we think our world ruled by destiny worship a god who got hung on a tree everyone goes to nashville with a banjo on their knee then come back in a year or three elliott smith was murdered ...
if it kills me
catty-corner from Penn Station is a fine fine all night restaurant called the Tick Tock Diner last time I was in New York I sat there for five hours watched the sunri...
neon and silver
I used to believe in things like silver linings I used to believe in things like me and you at night in my dreams it’s always New York City even if changing that were something I could do I w...
patrons with bottles of patron
searching for Medici looking for a patron saint to protect us from the hustle’s taint someone to write a few nice things about every few months when they remember to care go back to New York...
your princess is another hassle
to Mario the savior of the land only finding the toadstool man was a bitter disappointment but to the toadstool man it was everything for a weary plumber just another pipe to take ...
primary burner
what’s gonna pull you back from the glow what’s gonna disconnect you from the bliss what’s gonna shortcut the reward you think you know what’s gonna bring you back to this back from the teet...
my lack of faith sustains me
in terrifying times like these I almost can’t express how much my lack of faith sustains me how if there were a god behind all of this hate and ugliness how if there were a pla...
made up dreams
more platitudes than attitude more gravity than grave falsifications can calcify what rewrites cannot save the purity of insecurity can make each of us a knave if you’re the ...
dueling fates
the difference between being marked and being marred is within us and not in the stars we get to choose just what we are not just what has been done to us
a haiku burst
THE SIDEWAYS EIGHT one circle larger unbalance infinity one circle smaller TIPPY-TIPPY-TIPPY Monica makes a ritual of the mocha rising to her lips JUNG AT HEART me, apart from...
look down at your hands haiku
where is the theory of lucid living, instead? I’d like to try that
survivor
never going to find happiness being respectable what seems upstanding is often deeply detestable certainly not going to change the world that way the only way you can consisten...
where the heart was
when the line of the night is “I failed you as a parent by telling you that you were special when you were a little kid, it made you think you never had to work” and the most positive thi...
white noise nocturne
deep hearts and empty skies we middle aged are still in need of lullabies sometimes the stars are disappearing to city lights and clouds seems nothing is ...
kummerspeck, german for grief lard (nightmare logic 2)
crushed in corinthian crash diets bashed into an ignominious equilibrium mathed into amethyst balanced or at least that’s the gist criticized into some crippled-up te...
and good for her, right on haiku
Catherine The Great was always on her guard for having guards on her
sleep becomes less and less appealing (nightmare logic 1)
deep from the heart of your drum-machine soul beats the distant allusion to old rock n roll needing a lift from cloistered mystics skeleton shamans constructed from ...
the calling
someone has got to fart around observe and report back while you work your asses off don’t make artists have day jobs we perform a needed service while you toil to keep the globe s...
poster haiku
we are all missing missing someone or something or just being missed
the palm reader on sycamore haiku
she said I’d succeed but not for a long long time when is a long time?
you were wrong haiku
you’re wrong about scars they’re not where you got hurt, they’re the places you healed
the liquid zoo
I’m sick of all the mystics and statistics sometimes their predictions manage to agree the rare times when that happens I am shaken I have been known to fall dow...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
