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amazing
I get to do amazing things. Sometimes I complain and even when I can’t complain I complain anyway? Because that’s who I am as a lapsed Catholic? A recovering Catholic? My Catholicism’s in...
survivor
Art slides into the cracks between the wall-boards shimmies like cock-a-roaches art hides in the margins eating the scraps we leave behind and breeds and waits living off the ...
here we are
I take my safety by finding the storm’s eye and following it until the whole thing cools off but I’m a particular kind of weird. Inspiration’s awesome but aspiration’s a load of ...
homeopathic
If water actually had memory it’d overwhelmingly only remember the dirt from whence it came. If the dirt had memory, it would remember us. Nothing inanimate has memory eve...
the calling
the streets strewn with garbage and so much disease but the worst thing in Baltimore is the BPD the city police but brother, this isn’t The Wire there’s no doubt w...
both
You are amazing. You are also pretty messed-up. I’m not sure if they’re intertwined or just both there but you have to learn to...
it's not
it’s not yours this planet this moment this species this place it’s not yours and it’s not mine either we belong to it you belong to it it’s not yours you’re a passenger you’re a renter yo...
sometimes
Even when there’s something actual to fear, they’d rather make one up anyway, it is easier to control. You’re easier to control. So am I, of course. Sometimes fake works. ...
crow reference
Momentum is the word for God on the lips and hearts of artists everywhere. Distractions are bad for you. Indecision is bad for you. Day jobs are bad for you. Of course you have res...
the news
Everything wants to explode. These cities, these trees, there’s you, there’s me, there’s the very atoms in your bones. Everything wants to explode. The bad news is: no...
lemons (re-worked)
when life gives you lemons complain how much you hate lemonade when life gives you lemons demand to see the manager because you ordered oranges and goddamn it in America the c...
n'est pas
There’s a painting called “the treachery of images” it’s just a realistic painting of a pipe with the caption “ceci n’est pas une pipe” which just means “this is not a pipe” in French...
ollie
the dog’s messed-up but we’re buddies. if he wasn’t messed up and I wasn’t messed up we never woulda met so it’s good that we’re imperfect. the dog shits himself all the time rar...
the heart is a junkie
Look, actually, fools fall in love because we initially slip in a small puddle of lust and momentum carries us into the abyss. The h...
the joy of obscurity
Through obscurity, you escaped a beat-down into bland product or an exaggeration into self-parody. Through obscurity, you retained your soul. Through obscurity, you remained true to ...
why
you can’t control outcomes but you can control your thoughts you can’t control outcomes but you can control your thoughts you can’t control you can’t control outcomes but...
fly
Some parts of our past are just like kryptonite, chunks of where we came from, rocketing back to take away our strength. Home can kill you as swiftly as a speeding bullet more powerfully tha...
pry
when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail when you’re an anxiety disorder, everything is a reason to scream when you’re a literary theory, everything needs to be deconstructed when you...
because you
Don’t believe in the cult of anyone. Great things happen through the cooperation of many or massive dumb luck or both. Don’t believe that anything is magic other than maybe you. Becaus...
hudson street moment
sometimes I want to disappear melt away join the rain wash down to the sewers on a slow march to the sea suffuse into the firmament still exist but no longer be sometimes I want to dis...
six pens
sing a song of six pens a dollar pack of bics the thoughts are running wild now you’d better catch them quick when the pens have run out the cheap ink left to dry even if it’s all ...
for pete's sake
two of my ex-girlfriends were both hit on by the kid who played Older Pete on the Nickelodeon show “The Adventures of Pete and Pete” but it’s not like I grew up with him it’s not like...
synecdoche
here we are on an obscure earth dimly lit under an obscure moon with no supermen to save us no gods to bail us out from our extant monstrous hubris to absolve us of responsibi...
the legend of minnie driver
minnie driver was sixteen feet tall when they shot her role as the female lead in the oscar-winning “good will hunting” on the dvd out-takes you can see the stilts the other actors had t...
incision
scars on your body scars on your back scars like a map follow the rivers and roads the pink shiny trails that only came back by eighty-three percent useful and whole as ever but nev...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
