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grandma moses never had to be on TMZ
The later we succeed, the later we collapse into success-sheltered self-parody, this is our artistic covenant. We are better off without becoming Robert DeNiro taking ever...
progress
when you bury something deep down inside realize that you are planting a seed consider the future yield and consider your future needs before you do that even when y...
cripes
The only way to not be darned to Heck is to accept the love of Cripes into your life. You’re gonna be in deep poop without Cripes, you will be straight-up freaked in the butt. Cripes ...
the track palin blues
when did it become patriotic to hate the best things about America? our public schools, our infrastructure our attempts to be a real melting pot? why do these open-carry open-thr...
map to the stars' homes
They build Potemkin Villages of success to sell degrees and get cheap assistants for a little while until they’re disposed of Panorama City wants to pretend that its Van Nuys and Van Nuys...
renewal
We’re losing these geniuses so fast, someone’s gonna have to step up, there’s not even a choice now, but now it just has to be us. I know, right? It sucks. I sure as hell don’t feel ready,...
letter to myself 2
I’ve gotten better at turning frustration into grief instead of anger and that’s better for others and yet I don’t know if that’s actually better for me. Doubt kee...
the bird is the word
Creative success is a desert bird and I’m a charred flattened coyote but I will still strap that goddamned giant bottle-rocket to my back again. Making money off words ...
FAKE FACTS
FAKE FACT: No one wore underwear on the set of COMMANDO. FAKE FACT: early woks contained high levels of mercury, driving chefs slowly mad and coining the phrase “stir crazy”. FAKE ...
letter to myself
Story is the negotiator between truth and madness and dreams are just full-life reviews transposed into metaphoric load, the keys to turning it around in unbreakable incomprehensible code, ...
and the oscar goes to
I met Oscar Wilde once at a cafe in Brooklyn he’d time-traveled there to see what the future was like nobody blinked at his attire everyone’s trying to dress like they’re from some other ti...
tell us
tell us about New York before Walt Disney took all the good peep shows made them shut their doors tell us about way back when we still protested wars tell us about Haight-A...
must be somebody's maybe
how many pop songs would have totally different meanings if you transposed “maybe” and “baby” in every single hit? the line between tame romance and disturbing ambiguity is actually that r...
with grace
Believe in anything you can’t prove too much and pretty soon you’re a hammer and everything that disagrees is a nail. Don’t believe too much. Sympathy is easy but it doesn’t last lon...
life between war-times
if you wait at the ever-ready for a crisis with every single breath I guess you’ll get one eventually you’ll also have ruined your life while you girded up against dea...
winterize
they salted the roads to hell and back yesterday to collect New Years holiday double-time pay if you roll a pretzel on the New York Thruway you could bring it up ful...
paradox
Most professional training begins with an entrance exam but for an OB-Gyn, it ends with one. Yet the path to being a toll booth operator begins with an exit interview. The E...
the x-factor
the difference between the exceptional and the plain old exceptions is subtle and will be at best born out over time if at all so take these socially-constructed false dichotomies...
make America great for once
The nine scariest words in the English language are “I’m from a corporation and I’m here to help” to use the language of the enemy. Let’s shrink the power of corporate America so sma...
panic attack progression
I will not be ruled by fear. When I am I’m one-tenth of myself. I’ll be ruled by joy even if there are those who’d get more joy of their own from my fear. And I deserve better t...
the tall girl
introduce me to the tall girls give my number to the tall girls make me sound awesome to the tall girls I’m too cowardly to do it myself I’ve never dated the tall girls sometimes I’m too ...
ode to an imaginary facebook profile
Perrin or Baden or Umlat or Tetiham or whatever the hell your name is I’m sorry if you actually were real I know you weren’t actually real but I am a recovering Catholic you see I ha...
skellig michael, ireland
on a little island driven there by shame and failure ten million burning suns from nowhere beautiful but empty ruins whose purpose no one can remember desolate and lonely so blue and so ...
wichita
I’ve never been to Wichita but I take it on faith that there is a Wichita why would anyone ever make up a Wichita? they only happen by accidental momentum things like Wichita. I’ve go...
by george (a christmas story)
there’s a little bit of snow in the air/melting on the ground when it gets there we’re just a little bit of snow in the air/melting on the ground when we get there like George Bailey ...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
