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February 18, 2015

trouble

We are all in trouble all the time. That’s the whole point of being alive. Trying to navigate that humanely and with good cheer. Pretending otherwise won’t get us anywhere anyhow. We’ve been tr...


February 17, 2015

adirondack february

these are the days that everything smells like cigarettes everyone smokes just outside the doors and rushes in right after the last puff trailing in behind them on their jackets scar...


February 15, 2015

thought experiment

you say that you want me back, maybe except on your terms, baby as if the only way to save me is to change me rearrange me but if that’s love then you love strangely as if it’s your job to e...


February 09, 2015

it's a free country

If you have an erection lasting more than four hours, consider using it as a sun-dial. Maybe as a performance art kind of thing. If you have an erection lasting more than four hours, ...


February 06, 2015

fruition

There is this Fruition place we’re all trying to get to even though we’ve never been even though we’ve never even seen its face but we’re all trying to get the...


February 06, 2015

a modest proposal

What we need to do is threaten to round up all the normals and shoot them into the sun. In three days, everyone will have figured out a way they’re not a normal to get out of it, so ever...


February 03, 2015

show them the money

Every other prejudice in the world comes down to an attempt to justify why it’s okay for some people to be powerless and poor. But it is not okay. For ANYONE. ...


February 02, 2015

m-words

Magic miracles monsters none of these things will grant us our happy endings. But we may be able to will ourselves home for a little while. Who knows how and who...


February 02, 2015

that's in a name

If you MUST name your private bits at least use names traditional to another physical gender. Name your bosoms Biff & Steve. Name your penis Lillian. Name your clitoris Trevor. ...


February 02, 2015

spring forward

One can only hope that whenever the crap finally melts away there will be fertile soil for the coming spring beneath. May the terror you feel now bring apples bring wheat bring silag...


January 30, 2015

the two dogs inside you

There are two dogs in each of us. One is a pug that tries to do people things. Post pictures of him to tumblr & wait for your TV deal. There are two dogs in each of us. One of them only e...


January 30, 2015

conventional wisdom

The glass is not empty. The glass is full of air. LEARN TO DRINK AIR. A million monkeys on a million typewriters given enough time will accidentally write the lifetime works of William S...


January 28, 2015

how to kill a monster

yeah yeah yeah stare into the abyss too long the abyss might stare back sure that’s a step in the process but come on let’s face it that’s some first-level shit instead stay with it challe...


January 26, 2015

that's entertainment

the pursuit of fame is a bug-zapper’s game sucking in those who might bring the world change corrupting a few while killing off rest of the range it might seem tragic and it might seem s...


January 22, 2015

the karma boomerang

this is my favourite story about me that I was not present for ever my friends Ilio and Rosa were at a show somewhere somewhere west of here, I think, I don’t know I have intellectual glau...


January 15, 2015

nerve induction

Like Paul and the pain box, I’m learning not to flinch, learning the burn is an illusion and to not move an inch. The feeling that there’s a better you, sleeping inside, but you don’...


January 14, 2015

the carpet crawl

we are orphans to our endorphins we’re just no fun so let’s just run we’re beholden to our emotions in slow motion with old notions and we’re stranded em...


January 14, 2015

vert and earnest

I’m sick of all this introvert-extrovert stuff. I declare myself an outrovert. It will mean whatever I want it to mean. Sometimes I need a crowd of people. Sometimes I need to go and ...


January 13, 2015

real talk. real talk, here.

Nothing Kills A Crush Like Mentioning Jesus A Beautiful Woman Takes The Stage And Her Looks Are Intriguing And Her Voice Is Beguiling Then She Mutters Something About Bearing Witness And The Godd...


January 11, 2015

the h word

we go by the holy name, heretic we go by the holy nane, heathen we’ve seen no evidence of a thing like hell or heaven so we try to make this life better instead not in an unprovable after-thing n...


January 08, 2015

january

cold, bleak don’t mistake the winter-time for the forever-death of summers don’t mistake the twilight for the permanent loss of the sun don’t mistake your cold feet for early-onset diabetic neuro...


January 02, 2015

shaggy dog story

My favorite thing about Scooby Doo was their steadfast debunking of supernatural hoaxes much more possible than their own TALKING DOG. Aliens? Ghosts? Those must be old amusement...


January 02, 2015

new year

I look up in the night sky & I hope that it’s not empty, that someone or something’s gonna save us from ourselves. But no. It’s on us. If we want this human thing to keep...


December 28, 2014

information

When the world is invaded by gigantic tin cans, boots and tomatoes from outer space, don’t come crying to Ron Popeil. He tried. They’ll take your city while you’re watching your oven when y...


December 28, 2014

hot coffee

Sure, pizza is kind of like sex. However here’s a truer analogy: Coffee’s more like sex than pizza. Yes, bad coffee’s better than none but you also sometimes really ne...


Book Description

these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.