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after halloween candy
The sale is for a limited time only which makes it fit in just fine with everything else in the damned world. Everything is an offer with a hard expiration date. Whether you can know whe...
three-two pitch
Baseball will break your heart, stomp on it, burn the remains, scatter the ashes at sea then ask you out again in April. Baseball will tear your flesh off tan your hide and rende...
imperviousness
Just because a wound healed doesn’t mean you won’t have a pink glossy stretched-out scar that aches in wet-cold for the rest of your life. You can bounce back but that means yo...
brand management
A brand is a scar burnt into a living thing to prove that someone or thing else owns it. Why would you ever want to be a brand? I get why you’d want your work to be known to be appre...
never not once
The world’s never not once ever been changed for the better by an “is”. Our fates as women and men as individuals and as a species hang off the limbs of ten million “shoulds”. We d...
nails on a chalkboard
What if you could convince Freddy to kill you with gold bars then pull them out of your nightmares to get rich quick? You could destablize the entire precious metals market upending sig...
day tripper
I think I’ll start calling myself an Indoorsman. A two or three hour hike is lovely but I’ll apply my scouting skills to making up a nice warm bed. I sometimes like to ...
like follow subscribe
I choose to imagine what it would be like if we had to file our internet unfriendings with some official branch of the government. Get a notary co-signing in on that, get a big red ...
immediate support provider
No, I suppose that I’m no provider right now I’m a broke-ass writer looking for his place but there’s much more there’s supposed to be to potential you and reckless m...
everything is red
If you really think about it, what’s more metal than leaf-peeping? Driving far out in the country-side. Observing the autumn. “LET’S GET IN A CAR AND GO WATCH THE LEAVES DIE! IT’S ...
if you believe in things like time
My cousin Alan was eighteen when he died when he was murdered and I was twelve years old. I guess that I am thirty-six now if you believe in things like time. If you beli...
so many centaurs
Centaurs! We got centaurs! We got two centaurs in a man costume. We got two centaurs discussing how My Little Pony reinforces stereotypes. We got two centaurs bullying a jockey! You guy...
desperate measures
Start calling soccer “kick hockey”. Convince a child that tampons are “mommy’s special cigars”. Plant seeds of the absurd wherever possible. Remake key scenes from Ferris Bueller’s Day ...
car wreck with a casket truck
You always have a choice. Don’t always have a perfect choice but you always have a choice. Oh Christ, sometimes nothing’s nice you choose between two awful things but ...
postcard from a sunbeam
we’re these tangles of identities and needs for a reason to teach us we’re all each a little different we’re all kind of freaks but some never get the memo ...
sanity or just sour grapes?
This is the life you get instead of being famous. You might not think that it’s all that much but this way you’ll actually get to live it. That’s the trade-off, you get to bre...
sushi-joint iced tea
The iced tea was redolent of vanilla, reeking of vanilla, bleeding oozing vanilla but barely tasted of it at all. It was WEIRD. I spent the whole night just wondering about it wondering how ...
postcard from the Earth
Like it or not, this planet is a people zoo we’re all being judged on the tricks we can do. I don’t have many but I have a few. We don’t even jump for aliens or beg for scraps from tourist...
ode to some guy on youtube
the conspiracy video keeps droning on that the moon is an illusion and no one has ever left low-earth orbit some mad-man with a tenuous grasp of math has compiled and cross-checked the ori...
your permanent horoscope
The moon will take almost no note of you today. The sun will not whatsoever but it’s okay. In a life this short, use it to your advantage. Slip between the cracks of grand signific...
herd immunity
Mistakenly thinking they’re protecting their own damn the shared societal consequences, they put themselves at more risk too. Anti-vaxxers. Mistakenly thinking they’re protecting...
cast aways
The Professor saw there were two women way out of his league on that ship. The Professor saw the only others were an elderly couple and two gay guys. The Professor used his sup...
nationwide coverage
The shamelessness with which smartphone ads encourage us to live in a constant state of rude distraction is fascinating. They want us to watch football games at our best friends weddin...
aggregation
We’re just concentrated metaphor, four A.M. passed out on the floor, we are just consecrated metaphor. We’re just constipated metaphor, waiting for the figurative meteor, we are...
breathe
Don’t let people convince you that you secretly have an agenda if you don’t. They’re projecting their own agendas onto you. Just breathe. They’ll move onto someone else. Just because you...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
