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love
No, love does not conquer all. Entropy conquers all. But that doesn't minimize love's fleeting victories. It only makes them more special. It only makes them more precious. Love is an eyebli...
an agnostic convocation
if anything at all can be a magic spell it is in the stories that we tell not in the prayers that we might pray that may have the power to sway the actions of the extant gods and monsters w...
beginning of a weird rap song
grandpa pulled up stakes and moved to Tampa Bay he said he found himself now grandpa says he's gay grandpa moved to Tampa Bay now he says that grandpa's gay
the truth of the matter
God is dead yes God is dead I know this because I KILLED HIM MYSELF! I know that God is dead because I killed Him and made it look like an accident made it look like he just slipped in a ...
your ride's here
the holy ghost is breathing the son's gone underground the father's quite dismayed at the way it all went down the church became a shopping mall there's adverts on the steeple open up your ...
next exit: tipperary
sometimes that line in "Man On The Moon" sounds like "here's a truckstop instead of Reseda" to me instead of "here's a truckstop instead of Saint Peter" as it should be but just to my ...
the hollow-men
the things that used to be integral to the fabric of a community whose absence would once be unimaginable got hollowed out by Wal-Mart and now they must be desperately begged for tackily cro...
doctor me
the first version was cranky and wond'rous a bit of jerk really but an obvious prodigy probably too clever by half for his own goddamned good but fantastic to any eye that could see and he...
the last extra-value meal
ronald mcdonald transposed into the iconic images associated with Jesus Christ ronald mcdonald dividing one single bag of Filet-o-Fish sandwiches and feeding the multitudes ronal...
ovid's transformations
today is the last day of some phase in your life you might not see it for years you might never know because it's small but every single day you live is the end of something for you today i...
the size of the fight in the dog
ollie the dog would kill every single thing on the earth that isn't a human being if he could so it's probably for the best that he doesn't have access to a machine gun or thumbs it's...
conventional wisdom
at the comic book convention in the albany airport hotel I saw Gambit sitting in the corner checking his e-mail on his laptop I saw the Green Power Ranger looking at pornography sideway on ...
missing links
just because I don't understand your lifestyle choice as golfers doesn't mean I think you shouldn't be allowed to get married it's not my thing I'd prefer to not golf myself I'd prefer to no...
two pages about rain
I am not afraid of the rain I've crashed cars on the snow and the ice I've crashed cars in the California sunshine but never in the rain I know in my heart the rain will not be what gets me...
i should be in new york city instead
middle of June always gets me down but especially when I'm back home all the really nasty things happened in the middle of June when I was a kid before the Jell-O in my head set and you cou...
4 wonderwall
They say that the biggest tragedy in the world is when a parent outlives his or her child. I don’t doubt it. I’m not a parent. But I can imagine. Losing loved ones screwed me up at times in w...
3 roadshow
like an heirloom antique table hope is a damned fine thing to have it will make where you are more beautiful it has a chance of paying off in the long-run but you shouldn't lean too hard on i...
2 jalopy
these are the lives that I have lived these are the cars that I have driven a colt run into a ditch a twice-mothballed sunbird a truly banged-up voyager a hand-me-down cutlass a shiny si...
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if you'd rather have a fan club than a group of friends I don't trust you
ping
crank your words out with the same force as you'd hit baseballs with an aluminum bat the sting of the slam ringing hard back into your body for as far as the ball flies yes there will be ti...
best worst movie
the only movie I ever walked out on I didn't walk out on it was the second feature at a drive-in so I didn't walk out actually I drove the movie was called "Scary Movie Two" and I didn't hav...
flex points
skinned my knee on the dance floor pretty bad stumbled and fell and laughed it off but later in the night I had to admit there was so much blood there was just so much blood hell of a time p...
history lesson
achilles, sulking in his tent achilles, hulking and intense achilles, sulking with intent achilles, bulking up to vent achilles achilles achilles had a weak point at his heels achilles ...
stranger
you know you've hit your nadir when you start doubting your own memory when the good parts of the past seem like delusions or illusory or compounded with interest from the bad ways they all ...
stage three: bargaining
think of all the things you touched today shipped in from a half a world away so a rich man maybe only one town over didn't have to pay someone a living wage made in Malaysia printed in Taip...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
