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recipe for disaster
First, to start, for the sake of art, get yourself one (1) broken heart. Now, put both (2) bare hands in and shred that whole mess finely apart. But this recipe is not merely grief and bluster. I...
warning label
Life (ergosum evanscentium) is not for everyone. Side effects made include: heartbreak of the psoriasis, heartbreak, mood swings, sleepless nights, brief fits of euphoria, anxiety, depression, yo...
today's crosswords (edit)
( I was trying to post a poem that riffed on lists. PB keeps trying to put it into a properly numeric list. Imagine the word numbers as numerals to complete the vibe.) ACROSS One. Rubicon Crossed...
intercut (a poem that doesn't work in prosebox's formatting)
(imagine it in screenplay format) INTERCUT: EXT. ACTIONS DAY TO – DAY Rarely indicate our true motivation, the actual story of a life. Even though that’s all anyone else can know about us. Even t...
grays and greys
getting old has not taught me much which shouldn’t be that surprising human beings in general aren’t good at learning things despite claims to the opposite, no, we are better at feeling thi...
our national times past
they love their football so much because it is the last plantation they have left for the cheering Sunday afternoon after bowing to their lily-white Jesus Christs the S...
victory and balboa
stay down, rocky the fame isn’t worth it stay down, rocky the money isn’t worth it stay down, rocky your pride isn’t worth it it isn’t worth your death nor a life of pain and regret stay down, ro...
the plan keeps coming up again
the secret algorithms behind the surface levels we’ve mistaken as free will the subtle patterns weaved into the dance of an electron shell the scatter patterns of refracted light the decisions...
winter
in the winter, the earth scabs over white blood cells bundled up coating the wounds inflicted from three long seasons of birth and death strife and storms rot and germination the earth...
heart
my heart is a space made to push from place to place throbbing and pushing, contrived too scared to live too scared to die too scarred to be sacred too scarred to forgive ...
maybe it helps
it helps to remind yourself you’re the one who chose to be here maybe just to learn a lesson maybe to perform some noble deed maybe to fulfill a cosmic lark maybe provide a solid ...
station break
the revolution will be advertised they’ll sell bubble gums cards just like in the Gulf Wars not even after the fact as people are dying howling in the streets there...
the fix
you break and you put yourself back together and you break and you put yourself back together again you break and you’re never quite the same as the last you reassemble on the fly f...
watson's cricks
I think about evolution about how it doesn’t work how most think it works as if it has a point it is trying to get to where it is perfect where you are perfect then it’...
imagine
imagine imagine imagine imagine not giving a shit about the Oscars imagine no longer pretending to give a fuck about who the rich pretty people vote as their prom queen and king this year o...
cool blue light and peace
turns out that we can’t live forever but there is a next-best possibility the idea we might get to live a life where we see so many wonderful things where we do so very much so very long th...
after the end
they tried to break the seals the seals were broken instead they rooted for their raptures but mostly just ended up dead they wanted kings and gods they lost a few close friends...
roadside attractions
seven hundred and sixty five miles from here to the fireworks shop those vaguely racist billboards advertise down the ninety-five one thousand six hundred and five from here to the d...
a little bit
born an incidental heir to the goddess Eris accidentally dated mostly German and Irish length of life led to leaving me airless superstitious and cowardly and dareless lacking from ...
life lessens
life is the longest thing you’ll ever do life’s the shortest thing you’ll ever do life is the easiest thing you’ll ever do life is the hardest thing you’ll ever do life’s the weirdest ...
moving violations
love can move faster than the light love can be two places at the same time or three or five love knows its speed and its location simultaneously is unchanged by outside observation ...
april showers
the skeletons of long-abandoned above-ground vinyl swimming pools the bodegas and dollar stores where once your childhood pizzerias stood a car-struck possum by the roadside awaiting natu...
faith
faith is something for other people not for me and that’s okay I know what I am I know how every time I’ve ever believed in something without a shadow of doubt I’ve become a zealot I ...
missed america
oh but that we could just stuff ourselves with the emptiest of calories and drift on off to sleep free of our shared responsibilities never having to wake up never having to make the cho...
certainty
at a certain point you’ll have to come to terms with the fact that you can’t come to terms with every single fact that’s in your life there will always be some loose threads ...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
