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and but and
Hearing someone speak of a person as they were the love of their life when you know that person didn't feel the same way at all when they say that's their ex and you know the other person w...
redemption song
Sometimes still I think. Gimmie back my car. Gimmie back my memories. Gimmie back my confidence. Gimmie back my sense of self. Gimmie back my youth. Gimmie back my youth. Gimmie back my ...
gravity's rainbow
a wise man told me Sunday a wise man who poses as a fool a wise man who poses as a fool that's posing as a wise man he told me Sunday and I'm paraphrasing here because my memory is bad but ...
third time
A working class kid with a rich man's education and that's not exactly a boast. And I've toiled in ghettos and mansions I've done it on both coasts. What if setting a record for the most wa...
hopes and dreams
I hope she made it to Canada I don't think she made it there but I hope she did and I hope she's happy I hope she got that white picket fence I don't think she got it but I hope she did ...
surely really anyway true
and I mean really how can you KNOW you wouldn't like making out with me if you haven't tried it for... 20 or 30 minutes? YOU CAN'T KNOW YOU CAN'T KNOW MAYBE I'M AN ACQUIRED TASTE LIKE BOU...
in the last ditch, I'll think of you
You can't argue with success. Because success is a concept. So it doesn't have a mouth. Concepts don't have mouths. They don't have anything. They don't exist in any corporeal sense. So you...
carl sagan's beautiful blues
sometimes it occurs to me struggling to write poetry the Ts won't cross the Is won't dot they should have sent an astronaut
hope springs
I'm not saying I'm not deluded too I don't have faith in ghosts and monsters but I do have the gambler's fallacy and sometimes it is almost as bad so an I declare my lottery addiction a non-...
you can't spell "truth" without "rut"
never mind for lines the shortest distance between two points is a lie and there's a subtle difference between a one-way lie and a mutually-agreed-upon fiction the difference is the lie h...
reverse stage fright
reverse stage fright is a serious disorder reverse stage fright is the bane of my existence reverse stage fright is the state of only being comfortable when you're on stage in the act of cre...
loose change
it feels like everything around me is in a fevered state of flux everyone is cracking up getting fucked moving in moving up breaking down moving out flipping out signing in sleeping aro...
self-mythologizing
I'm a prince up on a parapet and I'm letting down my hair I've known the showers in ivory towers and the friendly ghetto stare I've been thrown out for a lack of funds in the east and...
meltdown
when the prevailing winds conspire to leave me the comparatively level-headed person in the room holy Christ something has gone wrong when my usual steady rain of melodrama and self-doubt...
Mea Maxima Culpa
this is the process the process is this rendering myself scatterbrained to obfuscate the pain filling my brain with everything that I can fit in there to dull the desire to staunch the ...
in the end
chalk it up to a lifetime of lessons learned chalk it up to a five lifetimes' worth of bridges burned chalk it up in a list of debts and credits earned chalk it up to misapplied blame ...
80,000 Points For Extra Life
we'll go down to the mall pretend we're still nineteen with our futures still bright and the grass blaring green pretend from Macys to the Target we'll pretend from end to end where the a...
the limping friar
I threw out some old glories clad in ones that still apply I go down for water the well is a lie before enlightenment the monk goes to the well for water and after the enlightenment the ...
addendum
not so much a prodigal son as a never-was prodigy and yet here I am demanding third chances reconsider me when you check that resume when you smell the laurel trees when you take the J-l...
the vinyl countdown
Experience is analog. Memory is digital. An amalgamation of approximations. Memory is a lossy medium. Memory is an mp3 of life's live set. Memory shaves off corners for better compression. ...
a boy who reads
I have chopped firewood but I honestly hate it I've only ever done it so that my aging father wouldn't because he can't admit that his heart can't take it but I hate to sweat and it makes ...
upon an old warehouse
tear it down blow it up give it away sentimentality is nice but we can drown as rocks in the water by clinging too tightly to yesterday tomorrow is coming and we can either tokens of th...
mister mister
madness is only a gift if you know how to keep a lid on it if you know how to simmer that shit channel it keep it under control most of the time because if you can't it's even worse than...
the rules
it's not just a matter of knowing the rules so you know how to break them know the rules so well you can make them devour themselves punch their own faces fake their own deaths rip out thei...
love's limiting factors
no, love does not conquer all love does not always win but love has a puncher's chance when the fix isn't in love can win any fight that's fair and that has to count for something no, l...
Book Description
these are first-drafts of my newer poems.
some of them will be great, some will be awful.
most will be okay.
