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by littlefallsmets

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September 22, 2015

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 ...


September 21, 2015

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...


September 20, 2015

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...


September 10, 2015

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...


September 07, 2015

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...


September 06, 2015

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...


September 06, 2015

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 ...


September 06, 2015

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...


September 06, 2015

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...


September 05, 2015

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...


September 05, 2015

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...


September 03, 2015

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...


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...


August 30, 2015

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 ...


August 30, 2015

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...


August 28, 2015

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...


August 20, 2015

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...


August 20, 2015

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. ...


August 20, 2015

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...


August 14, 2015

for broke

hearts untethered minds let reeling wings unfeathered despite a feeling more than leather more than ceiling the nasty weather chemicals peel...


August 12, 2015

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...


August 12, 2015

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...


August 12, 2015

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...


August 12, 2015

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 ...


August 11, 2015

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.