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gray lines
Fiction can tell us truths in the places where mere fact finds itself afraid to tread. But only as long as fiction acknowledges itself upfront. When fiction breaks that trust it b...
distant laughter
the gods do wait to delight in you. not a manufactured you but you. not a most hireable you but you. the best of you. no varnish on top of you. no resume exaggerations. no p...
owl
I’ve seen the best minds of my generation driven stark raving sane exhaust their heat on respectability instead of making the world change get semi-stable jobs sit down and make kids or at l...
case-by-case stasis
The weird thing about the past is those aren’t just stories about someone like me, those were actually me. Not someone who just looks like me or someone that I played once in a movie b...
stasis update
Really, the only technically valid status update is “I am currently hitting ENTER after writing a status update”. So when you get a Timehop photo on your facebook, next year wil...
the los angeles poem
if I had the big money if I had the stupid money if I had the multi-millions so much that I had millions left over after the agents and lawyers and kids I’d hire a passel of x-ray technician...
self-fulfilling prophecy
If the Antichrist is ever a real thing, you know he’ll always pose palms enfolded against the backdrop of a gauzy Texas flag. If the Antichrist is ever a real thing, he’ll always smile an...
these and more than these
If love can’t save you, art can. If art can’t save you, love can. Without either, I don’t know. Hope for a hell of a blackjack run. Hope for a passel of money enough ...
obscured
Understand that your perspective is not universal. The raccoon looks upon a man and thinks “the bald ape has raccoon hands!” The octopus thinks “the bald ape has lost both of its limb...
what you could do
What you could do is beat someone to death with the world’s largest gummy worm. Then eat the gummy worm. Hope the lack of evidence exonerates you. Make sure you use an actu...
survival
What which does not kill you hopefully leaves a cool lookin’ scar that will drive the babes wild. What which does not kill you only leaves you soft and weak and hobbled an...
where as a child I'd hide
I’m slightly too old to be of the “here we are now, entertain us” generation. Just barely still the “where do we go where do we go now where do we go” generation. Both as metaphor...
maybe only the crazy can love you
Everyone says you gotta love yourself but maybe it’s more like an arranged marriage where you just accept this is who you’re permanently stuck with. It’s not...
life before wartime
You have to understand moonshine was the original craft booze. Banjos are everywhere now. The end-game of American hipsterism is the state of being liberal hillbil...
to the moon, alice
Astronaut does not kill Astronaut. It is Astronaut Law. Every astronaut gets three attempts at pooping upwards that the other Astronauts have to clean for them. It is Astronaut Law. ...
make it happen
Can you imagine how great our country would be if we gave teachers the benefit of the doubt the way we do the police? Can you imagine how strange the inverse would be if we kept ...
tolerance
If you are gluten-intolerant by all means do what you need to be healthy but that doesn’t mean you should convert those who are not to stop eating gluten as well. ...
being remembered
Transcending death as a branded whimsical marketing fiction is our American sainthood. Your meaning dies with your body but a hollowed-out version of your name lives on and on forever. ...
open mic haiku
the room is clearing as you’re rising to the stage can you take the hint? * her strong roman nose I just wanna ski down it into her kisses * no one can be deep with that much hair produc...
buy now
You’re Running Out Of Chances To Buy-Low On The Investment Opportunity That Is My Love I Prefer A Single-Investor Situation But If A Time-Share’s What You Need I’m Open To Negot...
ffs
Vulgar is the new humane, taking the “polite” assumptions of gender faith and class, stripping them away so we can all just be ourselves. So please literally for humanity’s sake ...
reality
Reality is the butcher that quarters and seals in wax-paper packages our very dreams before us. Hold him off for as long as you can. Reality will slaughter them into disjointed chunks ...
prequel
The Star Wars Prequels need to be understood through the prism of one simple yet non-obvious fact: Yoda was high as balls. All the prequels are Yoda’s retelling of the past t...
re
Regroup. Reboot. Re-evaluate. Reject all expectations, bad and good, they’re two sides of that sucker bet “faith”. Faith that good things are gonna happen and faith...
there there
You’re not a part of the darkness but the darkness is a part of you. You can’t kill it but you can negotiate it into a small useful corner. You can get there. Somewhere at the...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
