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promenade
Turn any rap into a square dance by simply yelling “now promenade!” after every few lines. Example: Leanin’ to the side but you can’t speed through Two miles an hour so ...
Argle Bargle
Argle Bargle. Argle bargle, foof-a-doom malikdornle ma-hey-a-hom. Argle bargle, alba-somalalok brong-gol-marhalalalala. Argle bargle, morbo torbo shum shum shum shulpah. Argle Bargle. Argle Barg...
how long a life
all of our faces and internal places our tenderest non-negotiable spaces all the basics will almost surely be separated out by their atomic density by the end of the tw...
crazy
Decency is not dishonesty. I won’t accept that proposition, no matter how much political juice jerks can get from that position. They call decency dishonest while all the while emb...
and then wake up
find a girl unimpressed by boys who play guitar hold onto her like treasure like the miracles they are know you hit the lottery with that very first kiss there are not many...
pregrets
know the difference between “having what it takes” and “having what they want to take away” because no one else is gonna know it for you because anxiety and panic aren’t about reg...
yahweh or the highway
As a popular culture we reserve vastly more pity forgiveness for the misdeeds flaws and complexities of fictional characters than we do real people. Serial killers ...
generic
common things like band-aids lose their trademark power and their corporate identity to common use by consumers the same as peacemakers lose their names to history. like astroturf...
normal
All these people for whom being interesting was just a passing phase who now aspire for average, I must admit, I weep for them… All of these conventionals, why can’t they run off to...
ache
I am not entitled to love I do not in some way specially deserve love yet I cannot deny my longing some woman of nostalgic interest with orange lipstick on her lips and a quick s...
summer's end
paranoia runs deep at the summer’s end cuts through the still-drying sweat like a stream the hot opportunities cooling off just like the nights or anyhow that’s how it seems at the summer’s e...
highway 29 revisited
“They’re up to some crazy shit in Utica” they think in Syracuse in Albany they think in Saratoga if I am to be taken as a fair example. am I? I have no idea. At Caffe Lena not far from the...
a political speech next week
We need to build a wall between us and Mexico. We need to build a wall between us and Canada. We need to build a wall between us and the untrustworthy oceans. We need to build a w...
problems
If you’re only knocking over the moneychangers because you think you’d be a slightly better moneychanger, you ARE the problem. If you only hate the Pharasees because you reckon ...
forging ahead
scorched soaked and folded over and again it hurts like hell to burn it hurts like hell to bend but then one day you wake sharp as a razor’s end heated and beaten down heated...
piano bland
Maybe the characters in PIANO MAN wouldn’t be so depressed if they didn’t have to listen to fucking Billy Joel. Maybe Davy is completely happy with his naval career maybe he’s on tra...
camo toe
Always, always ALWAYS pretend that anyone wearing camouflage is invisible. “WHERE IS THAT VOICE COMING FROM?” “IS THIS PLACE HAUNTED?” Go into a Cabella’s or a Bass Pro-Shop: “WHY...
wave
You are not catching a wave. You are not riding a wave. You are a wave function collapsing. This is not better or worse but it is different. You aren’t up and humming. ...
super
Some Supermen are up up and away, some are up up every night, some are up up for the day, some are just up up up tight. Some jump every task in a single bound, some of us...
for broke
hearts untethered minds let reeling wings unfeathered despite a feeling more than leather more than ceiling the nasty weather chemicals peel...
what you wish for
there’ll be fliers there’ll be fires there’ll be lies and there’ll be lyres there’ll be guitars drums and guns and bombs and knives and fife fathers daughters son and wife bring an end to your...
dorothy dreams of tornadoes
her superpower was this the worst futures that were possible she had terrible nightmare about them but when she woke up in a screaming sweat they could no longer happen her nightmares used the...
sometimes
when I was a child I’d look down at my double-jointed thumb and tell myself “remember” remember that this little thing is a little bit of proof proof that I am special that I can do great thi...
San Francisco Newark
I’m afraid of the fact that I’m not afraid of flying anymore I know this sounds like willful glib contradiction but it isn’t flying makes me feel like I am goddamned nearly about to die there ...
homeward bound
look down from your flight at all the blinking lights in the madness of the night pretend they blink for you tomorrow morning when the sun is shining bright maybe...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.