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the mean while
the worst regrets aren't the things you can see happen as they're happening the worst regrets are the ones you don't see for months down the road for years those are the ones that mak...
the wait
we can't go back we can't go forth but I can't let it go for whatever that's worth it all went down six feet under the dirt in another life and on some other earth it's just a fli...
footprints in response
in my dreams I walked a beach with Christ and watch out paths there in the night there were places where there were two sets of footprints and other times but one I asked Jesus Christ how tha...
part of a complete lovesong
well I don't mind making breakfast can I be your Lucky Charmer I would gladly warm your Pop Tarts am I getting any warmer if you want I'll be yours for Life and you know I play no Trix if I...
the parable of the drowning man
one day a man woke up and the first floor of his house was flooding the street beneath him was flooded-out totally there was no way out without drowning so in his second floor bedroom he stay...
oestra
maybe Jesus Christ had Himself crucified to get Mother Mary off His Goddamned back "what's with all this preaching stuff?" "there's no money in it, honey" "go back into carpentry" "it's...
we are we and weary
you can say that you're all about not giving into despair but you're a whole different person when you're scared you can say you've accepted that life isn't fair but you're a whole differ...
of d-keys and blue screen freeze
the house is full of moths this keyboard's breaking down there's bad juju all around did the fortune cookie lie? the creditors are calling, to start family relationships are falling apart ...
after slaying the bull of heaven
it is a lesson that goes all the way back to good King Gilgamesh you can go home again after all your loss and all your existential quests but the world will have left you inexorably chang...
the secret scene
the film reel running out at the movies at the end after the secret scene after all of the credits with a rumble and a few slightly damaged frames blurring unspooling flickering out into ...
the mission
I wanna be the patron saint of agnostics I wanna be a high priest of doubt I want to remind you it's a sin to be too sure and that it's a virtue to try and figure it out I want you to m...
wants and needs
the smell of cheap beer in an expensive beard is that what you want? he's running around all over the town making you look like a clown is that what you want? because it's not a questi...
overflow error
there is too much of me too much hair too much flesh too much bone too much width too much height too much fat too much of everything there is too much past still too much future oce...
a cup filled with maybes
am I indecisive or not? I don't know I'm not sure I'll have to think about it some more I'll have to talk it through do I have a hard time trying to make up my mind? do I experience diffi...
a needed break
there is socioeconomic Stockholm Syndrome wall-to-wall whenever I try to watch the news so I just turn the channel I put on cartoons it's not the best answer but sometimes it's all we'...
up the creek
grow grow grow your boat trees become canoes dare to dream dare to dream dare to dream dare to dream we become things too even if sometimes we must spoon into our living parts to do ...
tomorrow
senator janitor banker and nun we are all mostly just mundane and ugly and plain but we all get our flashes of being fantastic the trick is finding the discipline to get the timing right ...
missing pieces
and if you can't drop biscuits at least drop beats and if you can't change the world at least change me if you can't preach to the birds go preach to the bees and if you can't do pus...
puppetland
in puppetland we're the imaginary friends crafted out of felt and socks held up high to maintain the illusion for naive puppet children that human beings could ever be real could ever feel...
ellipsis
sometimes I think about that day in L.A. when a girl knocked on the door of the office that I worked for thinking it was another place and when I informed her of her being misinformed she ...
too
for men we are expected to claim horniness as our driving force when loneliness is the measure of our frustrations because that's supposedly stronger I guess break it down and pretend t...
sketch of zach (fifty-two pickup)
watch the nervous energy the mania the ruffle of shuffle it's all in the cards it's all in his hands tricks only he can see only sages can understand it's misdirection even though it's n...
sketch of rosa (honey slides)
she made a tea ceremony of adding honey to her chai lifting it up by the quarter-spoon then drizzling it down like spider-webs like summer rains like the graces of the gods themselves ...
the bungled and the botched
a head fulla exposed wires sparking irregular seeing things that just aren't there and conspiracies in simply everything messages coming up unchecked riddled with errors in syntax and spell...
speech from an old man to young women
they train you from an early age in fairy tales and rock songs to chase after monsters in the hopes that catching one and taming it and finding that little piece of good inside deep dow...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
