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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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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 ...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.