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December 27, 2014

time & place

This is the time. And this is the place. We’re better than blessed. We’re real. We’re better than miracles, we’re factual. We’re better than glamorous, we are actual. But we retreate...


December 22, 2014

heard it on the grapevine

up in Kern County way out past Tejon you can bet the camels if you happen to know someone who knows someone who’ll tell you where to go but if cops show up then you’re on y...


December 20, 2014

go nuts

Re-examine your self-definitions regularly. You are not a series of categories, you are a you. You might miss something great. Some one or some thing. And anyway at this ...


December 20, 2014

distance

travel does little for your longing unless your travels take you where you long to be otherwise travel just means newly-unfulfilling scenery another place to add to the list of places yo...


December 18, 2014

rough birth

the frantic trumpeting of used-up myths the lawman-murderers in the old streets trying to reverse the advance of freedom these are not a resurgence the now is a rough birth of something a...


December 17, 2014

my heart

my heart is almost new my heart is gently used my heart is pre-owned factory reconditioned refurbished repartitioned defragmented debugged freshly detailed drained and refilling my heart i...


December 17, 2014

don't

don’t mistake the darkness for proof that the light will never come back I mean it might never come back but it could don’t let ‘em trick you into thinking that hard ...


December 17, 2014

our hearts

we shred our hearts to ribbons we spread them out across the sky that we may yet outshine the stars yes that’s the point that’s why we do it we wanna either shine that bright or die or may...


December 17, 2014

something is lost

she used to be able to get by on her looks but not anymore and she’s still getting used to it he’ll always get by on his family’s money he won’t use those words but his acceptance is far...


December 17, 2014

memorial

but where is the praise for our unarmed forces our women and our men out in the streets fighting for justice non-violently without weapons arrest records as their only medals bruise...


December 17, 2014

matthew

I wanna go to a football game hold up a Matthew 6:1-5 sign the Bible verse about how people shouldn’t be pushy with their sky monsters I mean, it doesn’t say “sky monsters” but I’m not...


December 11, 2014

almost

We kill present joy through needless overpreparation We kill future joy through needless devotion to arbitrary self-definition We kill past joy through needless roiling boiling endless in...


December 11, 2014

ready or not

if we say such weird things on the twitter that we’re only employable as gigolos or in the arts maybe God’s hand will be forced and will provide us with such jobs it’s so hard to even fin...


December 11, 2014

the former in the dell

the damn thing will hold power now but it will not charge and every time the connection drops a little bit more strength drains away this is both literal as well as a metaphor this is my life ...


December 11, 2014

time and tide

telling someone that they are terrible will never motivate them to be better people don’t work like that sane people don’t, anyway or even just half-crazy people like us you think us standi...


December 11, 2014

a matter of time

my memories are filled with songs and movies I’m astonished that my mind hasn’t been hit with a copyright take-down lawsuit yet I’m surprised that some senator in bed with telev...


December 11, 2014

bluster

the snow cuts in all ways making scrambled eggs of highways covering up the old things that they may lie in wait for a while but only for a little while we will be reborn but i...


December 05, 2014

small favours

modesty’s for rich folk they can afford it the rest of us must revel in what we’ve got if confidence our only luxury let’s get drunk drain the bottle before the sun-up


December 05, 2014

talking myself out of it

cute girl with a mohawk in the cafe and I don’t know maybe she’s gay but I guess that’s okay because it’s possible she’s jailbait too and I don’t need trouble I don’t need more trouble than I alr...


December 05, 2014

jefferson hill

stray cats on the side-streets don’t gotta worry about me because I’ve got nowhere to be worth a single cat life’s cost while I’ve heard the people say that all who wander are not lost the truth ...


November 23, 2014

cable news

fear fear fear be afraid be afraid fear fear fear be afraid don’t marvel at the future or the past that we have made fear fear fear be afraid your breath is rank your pits are stank every...


November 20, 2014

hold on for tomorrow

embrace blessed uncertainty enjoy incredulity may love be your sword may doubt be your shield because the reign of fate faith and darkness has been repealed the con game called destiny has been...


November 19, 2014

love poem 140

if your rocket burns out swallow the sky if your boat springs a leak drink the sea but if it ever gets boring leave your fella and find me


November 17, 2014

the flower of gower gulch

we cannot walk on water and so westward we wade into the orangade ocean just as into cornfields jamesearljones did fade as such was our pilgrammage to the most fictional place on earth ...


November 16, 2014

an owl in daylight

Pallas Athena wisdom and defense talons cut her shoulder bleed down her gleaming breast steel eyes lost in thought set in marble flesh if only I could know her not as on museum stand as ...


Book Description

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