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mad maximus
Walking down the beach with Jesus I saw where there was both our sets of footprints then I saw when there was just one so I asked Jesus what was up. “Where there was one set of footp...
edges
At the water’s edge it’s so easy to stay leafy green but at the water’s edge there’s more floods than you’ve ever seen that’s the trade off of unstable ground that’s what ...
the end that never came
you can spend your entire life steeling yourself for disaster but if disaster never comes then your time lost was the disaster disaster comes or it doesn’t you roll with it or y...
the herkimer poem
a trip to the local pulminology clinic it wasn’t the worst and it wasn’t the best the lady chain-smoking next to the oxygen tank turned out to be just toting it out for her mother ...
the big question
have I given away enough of my past as presents to finally have my future back? have I finally realized that I’m not dead? have I finally realized that when they told me that I ...
go praise yourself
Jesus probably knew the sad fact that people were going to wage war in His name but all the terrible music probably shocks Him. The Crusades, sure, the writing was on the wall ...
superfluid
When things get too tense, too cold and too dense, reality itself wants to climb the walls, almost as much as I do. It certainly makes an emotional sense, ...
American They
The cake mix they made has powdered egg in it already. They only have you add an egg to the mix to make you feel like you did something. You didn’t. America. They love pretending there...
the christmas that simply was
I wonder if Santa just pretends that someone’s trying to steal Christmas every year as his people to people who want to be heroic. Is this all Santa’s gentle con? How long has it al...
the long con
They say there’s people who dream of things other than being an artist but I have a hard time believing ‘em. I think they’re just making it up so you know if we don’t get there we...
the miracle
who could ever want to destroy this town? bomb it with planes? want it to end? this weird terrible wonderful shitty miracle this new york city, my dear old friend. might want ...
katherine's beautiful blues
despite all their best efforts with the hot steel they can hurl we’ll convince ourselves that there’s a secret savage world for shattered boys for shadow girls where we’ll...
before rome fell
we’re not gonna burn out we’re not gonna fade away we’re not gonna burn brightly until the end of the night, we aren’t gonna turn to salt or ash at the breaking of the next day we are gonn...
the headswap blues
even if the transplant worked and the whole thing went through would you be the head or the body which would be you if the genders didn’t match would the doctors even bother if a ma...
existential pick-up lines
You’re an accidental node of consciousness traveling around in a bag of pink ape meat for eighty or so years if you’re really lucky? Oh my God, so am I! It’s weird as hell, right...
common knowledge
It’s common knowledge but If the shoe fits, that doesn’t mean you should wear it. It might be ugly or stank as hell or you know, it might be boot weather. It might be a fly Air Jordan that...
flanders fields
The left sells you war as freeing the oppressed the right sells you war as killing heathens but the outcomes and the profits are always the same. If we weren’t spending trillions on poi...
bob
Bob your head and bob your hair while bobbing up and down in cool cool early summer evening skinny dipping water and then Bob’s your uncle. Plunk your bobber down and fish fashio...
hitting the sauce
there is a hot sauce called “Dave’s Insanity Sauce” it’s a really hot sauce I got some in my contact lens, once and I don’t eat Dave’s Insanity Sauce anymore, either I tend to overcorrect aft...
second window, please pull ahead
I’m firmly against the death penalty but I must admit if Fast Food Line Indecision were made a capital offense I’d be open to it. It’s a goddamned Burger King. It’s a goddamned Burger K...
the slip
Galaxies move in space, y’know. A long time ago, our galaxy WAS far far away from where our galaxy is now. You know, from a certain point-of-view. Buster Keaton’s house falling down aro...
the parting of the ways
No one gets full custody of memories but sometimes you wish they did and you could either hang onto every one or make orphans of them all. Vis-a-vis the “half empty/half full” I’ve decided that ...
this is why we can't have nice things
what I’ve learned about beer advertisements is that they want us to be stupid they want us to make stupid choices and they want us to be proud to be stupid Coors Beer, we already had a devic...
the handshake deal
The only way anyone ever uses the Q-Tip is the exact way the box tells you not to, so as to defend a faceless corporation from lawsuits. No one gingerly dabs around the edge of their ear wi...
dr. e's beautiful blues
Doctor Hugh Everett early changer of game-theory as smart as they get solved for Schrodinger’s cat by saying it was alive on one timeline and dead in another it was simple as that everythin...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
